SUMMER 2024, FLASH AH AH, 800 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 35: The night my dad dies, he’s not my dad—he’s fifteen years old, fluffy-haired and lean, and he’s sneaking through the neighbor’s backyard with a friend. They’re on their way to play […]
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I dance with the handsome men I do not knowthe music alive between their thighs, their liquid skin and hard muscles, my feet and the floorup my spine, into our shaking, sweating, swimming pretty heads… My bladder aches. On the way to the men’s rooma handsome man I do not know slaps my butt as
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SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3100 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 35: The bicycle shed at the edge of Heaven was painted a different color every time Kitty saw it. She was used to the ever-shifting hue, even fond of it, but one day
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Mortui Vivos Docent This April I attended my first RavenCon, my new local convention (and one of my favorite avian psychopomps.) I was very excited to share the joy of death with a new audience. Here are a few of the questions I was asked. What’s the licensing process moving state-to-state as a mortician? So,
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This lesson I learned and relearned, recitingit like a spell, word after wordto call back my power,to soften the ache,to sort out factfrom fiction,smother the ashes,close the gate after me,go home— leave the garden behind,all its wine and ghosts, flashes of memoryand myth, hope held too tightly,until the spell turned curse,and secrets scatteredlike a firestorm,
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“So, what do you want to happen to your body when you die?” I had shown up to my girlfriend’s closing night cast party for our university’s production of Twelfth Night in a black cropped turtleneck with a sexy little cutout under the boobs, fishnets under a deep green leather skirt with embroidered flowers whose
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for Sakshi Your face an oblong fact. Your hair a swirl of light in a jagged syntax. The curve of your laughter like a shot of caffeine in the mainline vein. This is how you look from the other side of my death—Your wrists torqued, shoulders hunched, your eyes a liquid curl of endless awe.
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