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Like Sheep Eggs

by Charlie Geer
Because my presentation concerned the challenges of teaching a second language, what happened shortly before it, at lunch, was only fitting. My host, a professor of linguistics at [...]

Where You Rest Your Head

by P.J. Martin
A study table with a laptop just below the window, the vertical blinds are missing teeth, and dusty. The table is older than you, in its drawers are [...]

Dancing

by Matt Baker
The Columbine shooting had just happened and I was day nine into the final night together with this girl I was in love with, residing in a Red [...]

Counting Crows

by Kat Rosa
One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for girls
Four for boys
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret
Never to be told
“What does it mean?”
“What? The beginning? Oh, I don’t know. [...]

Ice Cream and the Inferno (On the Mystical Tradition in Advertising)

by Michael Ray Laemmle
Have you heard the one about me watching television when an ice cream commercial came on that seemed to apply directly to my life and concerned a [...]

The Funny Numbers

by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
The Circle K convenience store added little to life in the small town by way of its services, but it was where folks gathered to play the [...]

Secondary Search

by Josh Maday
Before going in, Bobby stood at the door, took in big cleansing breaths, and then lowered his nose to sample the air. Even though he couldn’t smell anything, [...]

The Death of Elliot Pick

by Jenny Steele
So this is how it is to be murdered, Elliot thought, and he shifted again on the cement floor, tried to lessen the pain in his wrists tightly [...]

Rent

by James Terry
Although all men are created equal, those who successfully accumulate property are able, through the leisure property affords, to develop fully rational minds in ways not possible for [...]

Ice Cream and the Inferno (On the Mystical Tradition in Advertising)

by Michael Ray Laemmle
Have you heard the one about me watching television when an ice cream commercial came on that seemed to apply directly to my life and concerned [...]