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Stories

Poem of the Week
When we watched jellyfish, Mary Kate wondered if they dreamed of land.
Features
A letter is like a poem, showing the marks of an unwilling composer.
Story of the Week
He was shirtless and showcasing a large tattoo of the Twin Towers.
Poem of the Week
We could hear the parade three blocks before it arrived at our corner.
Poetry
Before sunrise I counted nine meteors scratching the heavens.
iPoems
The current looked cold and brown. It would freeze soon—November.
Fall Contest Winners
You’re feminist? Neither one of you. You just like getting into fights.
Poem of the Week
Praise the ease of it: how simple it is to tell the dog he loves her.
Nonfiction
Only one constant existed: I wrote. Writing was my center of gravity.
Nonfiction
Mentors can suggest to you what more you are capable of.
Fiction
“Your mother’s fine,” Giuseppe said. “We’re all completely fine.”
Fiction
They’d developed Santa’s entire system, had written the code.
Poem of the Week
I hear my brother’s wife whisper, It’s her again. Let the machine get it.
Poem of the Week
The summer Victor died, his dad spoke to no one but the canaries he kept.
Story of the Week
Before April rings the chime, she forces her way up out of herself.
Story of the Week
With my lime-green nitrile gloves I carried him around to the others.
Fiction
The blackness of her hair seemed to pull the color from her body.
Story of the Week
Michael Kohlhasas carried one virtue to too great an extreme.
Story of the Week
In chess as in love, openings could be only so original. But this was uncanny.
Readers' Narratives
My husband looks at me. I’m afraid he knows I am my mother’s daughter.
Readers' Narratives
Poem of the Week
That Hawaiian shirt is the first thing Ratso’s owned that he hasn’t stolen.
Spring Contest Winners
I returned to research a history we’d only known through stories.
Poetry
Sit beside me. Old country, I am hopeful and troubadour.
Poem of the Week
Stable-keeper’s kids know broken then healed, but healed with limits.
Poem of the Week
The attendant instructs remember, immerse three times.