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Writing

Craft talk and writer's-block first aid: editors, drafts, poetic kennings, and the ongoing fight to keep your voice your own.

Flash Fiction

And the Dog Spoke of Home

A rustle. A dog comes through the grass, looks at her. It has blue within blue eyes.

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Have a Heart

Finding a parking space this time of year had been a miracle. Could there be another?

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A Mind of Their Own

“We didn’t build a million bloody robots to sit around and take tea! They’re supposed to be stopping bad things from happening.”

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Inside, Outside

The man yells, “Give me a reason not to!” and Miss Simmons starts to cry and says, “I can’t.”

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Don’t You Love Your Dentist?

She reaches under the desk, lifts a bottle with something small and dark inside. It moves.

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The Wheel Turns

General Sam Chen-Anhaeuser’s clenched fists were white at the knuckles.

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A Choice to Love

“It’s not about right or wrong! It’s not about what’s allowed.”

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Flee

Even in the middle of the greatest danger, sie could not let an innocent being die.

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Darkness Is a Deed

“If I live,” he whispered, “darkness will swallow the world.”