Imagine a backpack, flung off the shoulder of a ten-year-old-boy and kicked under his writing desk, straps slouching onto the carpet stained with sharpie streaks and spilled soda. This is where it …

At first, on account of the dress being all puffed up, we thought it was a jellyfish. One that somehow found its way to the wrong body of water, perishing as it glowed in the dark among the clement…

I regret to inform you that this receipt is inaccurate—I stole Hubba Bubba, a stress ball, Revlon tweezers, and a travel sized pack of Trojan condoms. The items sit in my hoodie pocket, pressing in…

She is alone, so alone in the mausoleum of her apartment that when the ant climbs up the table leg and across the placemat and into the tar pit of syrup left behind on her plate from the pancakes s…

The motel with its raggedy bedspread and tottering TV that only plays 17 channels, two of them Spanish, and a swimming pool near the parking lot all concrete deck and swim at your own risk and we a…

Some say the primary key to parenthood is presence, but in “Waiting for Halley’s Comet Again” by Kara Kahnke, readers are given a glimpse of love so strong it defies the distance of absence. The na…

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We’ve been hanging here with K for a lot of years and though we’re generally an easygoing pair, we’re pretty irked about the ‘trial separation.’ Sol’s a good guy. We’ve always liked him, and he liked ...

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A Waseca native now living in Arizona has found a new dimension to his love of his guitar.

Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...

Fiction by Sara Lippmann

Fiction by Bezalel Stern

Fiction by Peter Markus

Fiction by Ashlynn Perez

Fiction by Andrew Siegrist

Fiction by Kate Tooley

Fiction by Melissa Goode

Fiction by Ellen Ellis

Fiction by Emily James

Wigleaf fiction by Katrina Denza.

Wigleaf fiction by Ravi Mangla.

Fiction by Epiphany Ferrell

Fiction by Howie Good

​Being human has always involved joy and despair, but the world has felt particularly raw since 2020. Raw Lit is an amazing outlet for artists to express their feelings on the rawest of...

Fiction by Roxane Gay

Fiction by Eric Beeny

Fiction by Meg Pokrass

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