The Abyss: A Love Story by Nikki HoSang
I. The cherry blossom tree outside the bathroom window is in bloom — really and truly blooming — the first time Jiyoon notices the abyss...
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Silver Rose Magazine
- Jun 28
- 12 min
I Know How This Ends by Charlie Evans
Mia flicked ash from the end of her cigarette into the ashtray. The photo had been posted 29 minutes ago, and she couldn’t stop staring...
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Silver Rose Magazine
- Jun 28
- 9 min
Seven Summers by Adrian Fleur
Climbing higher with you was the first drug, my first rush. I once rolled on a stone as I jumped, and you caught my arms in yours and...
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Silver Rose Magazine
- Jun 28
- 2 min
her by Nina Eddinger
You are taught you can be anything you want, but whatever you can’t choose Haunts you in the cold bath And in the mirror that has her...
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Silver Rose Magazine
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Elegy for a Sense of Safety in Freudian Terminology by John Tobin
Ego In the moment that Daniel quite literally took your breath away, you still heard the alarm in your mother’s voice on the phone in...
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Silver Rose Magazine
- Jun 28
- 18 min
Scandalous by Katie Scarafiotti
*Some parts of this story and names have been changed to protect those being written about Childhood It started with my mother. She’s the...
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Silver Rose Magazine
- Jun 28
- 1 min
Dos Gardenias by Adriana Stimola
When you picked two fresh gardenias, perfume pumping, packed them in a box to cross a continent, kept from sun, I asked why you’d deliver...
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Victoria Large
- Jan 13
- 4 min
Someone’s Arms by Victoria Large
2021 Flash Fiction Contest Runner Up “I didn’t make New Year’s resolutions,” Ed told Candice. Then he paused and said, “Well. I did...
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CB Anderson
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Watching Mars Explode by CB Anderson
2021 Flash Fiction Contest Winner Every night the birds, trees, cat in her lap. The sky. Stars pinned here, planets there. You know, the...
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Summer A.H. Christiansen
- Jan 13
- 5 min
How to Fall in Love in 35 Easy Steps by Summer A.H. Christiansen
Step 1: At 20 years old, break off your engagement to a religious fanatic after you start to question God’s existence. Realize that’s...
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Brian Christopher Giddens
- Jan 13
- 15 min
Trip to Vegas by Brian Christopher Giddens
It’s not every day that your Dad returns from the dead. Not your typical Wednesday night, if you know what I mean. We’re sitting around...
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D.J. Huppatz
- Jan 13
- 21 min
Crying Crane Garden by D.J. Huppatz
Some believe, following the Buddhist tradition, that yuanfen is similar to karma; its driving force is the consequence of actions...
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Elissa E. Minor
- Jan 13
- 14 min
Burn by Elissa E. Minor
Creative Nonfiction - LGBTQIA+ Prose and Poetry Contest Winner The hills to the south of our house were burning. We saw the fire over a...
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Interludes by Max DeZarate
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Interludes by Max DeZarate
Interludes I we ‘ve met in happy interlude: As I traipse from one act of suffering to the next I cling to the soft and gentle Walk with...
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quartzliterary
- Jan 13
- 1 min
UFO Love by Joseph Monaghan
I know this is love. It has the immediate warmth of a telepathic connection, like when conjoined twins use their own language. We can...
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Otito Greg-Obi
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Dating Advice for the Best Friend You’re Secretly in Love With by Otito Greg-Obi
Tell her it’s not a good idea to cancel her date. Crush two black dahlias in your fists. Mix with rosehip oil and lavender. Smear onto...
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Javan Howard
- Jan 13
- 2 min
What’s Real? by Javan Howard
I dream in black, My nightmares are black. Sometimes I don’t know the difference between a space shuttle and The Nina, The Pinta and La...
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Stacey C. Johnson
- Jan 13
- 2 min
Homeland by Stacey C. Johnson
The breaking was tremendous. It was all we could say in our silences, and while all we knew was this descending dark, our tiny flames...
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Hannah Maiorano
- Jan 13
- 1 min
We Were Never Sweet Together by Hannah Maiorano
I remember the yellow afternoon we spent sprawled in the backfield of our old elementary school Your head anointed with a crown of...
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Dereka Thomas
- Jan 3
- 18 min
to do list (after the breakup) by Dereka Thomas
16. I spend three afternoons a week in a dance class where I learn some sort of Hip-Hop Bollywood fusion. It has Afrobeat elements. Lots...
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