Sparrow Mary McLaughlin Slechta Juanetta passed the abandoned house every year since third grade and paid it no mind.…
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Giving Up on the Professor Julia Strayer Most of us live underground now, which is fine by me.…
When Words Clung to Paper Dawn Raffel The water rose slowly at first and then in a rush. This…
Honesty Sherrie Flick The steam rises, it’s a choir rubbing up my fat belly, then swirling to a hallelujah…
Feral Things Rosie Forrest When the siren first sounds, I am grateful to be settled in the basement, or…
My Mother in Corners Claudia Smith I believed my mother was water, my father fire. Swarthy, salty-sweat, flash-fires she soothed…
What the River Knows Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello People tell me I am good with babies. Children like me, they…
Assumption Emma Bolden The snow stopped before I was born, but I was a girl before the rain started.…
Curated by Tara Lynn Masih Riding the Dangerous Wind I’m so very glad I was finally able to…
Margo Orlando Littell on The Distance from Four Points My Characters’ Trapped-in-Amber Fate When I started writing The…