Ben Murphy Ben Murphy

No Spoilers

Have you seen this yet? I’m guessing no, or else I’d be getting an earful from Josslyn right now (It might be nice if you stepped up to take the heat on occasion…). I’m also guessing the author (Have you ever even heard of Ophen Precteldey?) doesn’t know she’s stumbling around the border of heresy, either, but maybe she’s a fusionist agitator.

Released: June 15th, 2023

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Misha Lazzara Misha Lazzara

Kodiak

Wooden posts strung with Christmas lights and solar lanterns were the makeshift fence line that he was absolutely prohibited to cross.

Released: May 15th, 2023

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Maria Haskins Maria Haskins

A Blank Space Where She Ought to Be

It’s 8.30 AM on a Monday, and Tess is hiding in the bathroom again, pretending she’s getting ready for school. Mom’s roaming the kitchen and the hallway, probably sipping her second coffee, maybe looking for her phone, likely getting ready to yell at Tess.

Released: April 15th, 2023

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Mark Galarrita Mark Galarrita

Kuya

Kuya Edwin and I used to tear shit apart. We did it all the time because he’s my Kuya; my bigger, broad-shouldered, older brother who showed me how to survive while being brown in New Jersey.

Released: March 15th, 2023

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Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

The Red Woman in Her Plastic Tower

In the café windows on my meandering way from the dock at which I had arrived into this world, versions of me sipped mochas, sipped green teas, sipped strawberry Italian sodas; I’d been on and off caffeine for all of my adult years, which made caffeine the longest relationship I could claim before Jenny.

Released: February 15, 2023

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Cadwell Turnbull Cadwell Turnbull

“Narratology” by Peter Young

Novelists should thank Flaubert the way poets thank spring: it all begins again with him. There is really a time before Flaubert and a time after him. Flaubert decisively established what most readers and writers think of as modern realist narration and his influence is almost too familiar to be visible.

—James Wood

Released: January 15th, 2023

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Shiv Ramdas Shiv Ramdas

Guardian

After the darkness comes the light. And with the light come the littlings.

Released: December 15th, 2022

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Elliot Richards Elliot Richards

Memento Mori

The engines on both wings exploded. Paul heard the spritely bong of the cabin intercom kick in, but he couldn't hear the message over the screaming of the passengers.

Released: November 15th, 2022

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Mark Galarrita Mark Galarrita

The Cemetery for All the Mothers Who Died Way Too Young

I picked up my first job as an assistant groundskeeper at a cemetery for mothers from my classmate Heidi Arthur. She heard my mom died of lupus over summer break and that I needed a job to help my dad with funeral bills.

Released: October 15th, 2022

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Smriti Ravindra Smriti Ravindra

Kichkandi

Mostly, I am a coin-sized dot on the ground. Children can erase me with a rub of their shoes and turn me to mud.

Released: September 15th, 2022

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