"I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum, the index cards with illegible scribbles..." -- "Greed" by Tori Walters. Flash contest finalist.

Fortunetelling is easy to ridicule, frequently misunderstood, and, for some people, extremely powerful. Unfortunately, what’s very tough to predict is what reading futures will do to the person ...

I. The first image came in black and white: slashes of sable, rosettes, slender legs. Echo’s eyes were zipped shut, her face marked with lines as if dripping with tears. Several babies curled up at he...

What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

Hi, my name is Eric Vere and I’m reaching out on behalf o… Lauren Landry needs your support for Support Renae's Fight Against Stage IV Lung Cancer

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A poem by Emily Skillings: "Hello. Can you hear me? If not me, do you hear the notifications sweetly intoning?"

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Tommy Dean Everything she says to me while we wait in the parent drop-off line feels like she’s trying to say something else, but it’s a language I don’t understand.

Stephen A Wolfe   CC sentinel            frozen in amber her funeral held no answers my four faces were graceless strangers to candor i                              ...

George Bremer   CC Elsewhere You are driving home from Walmart with supplies for spring break in the back of your car—the black Mazda your mom used to drive. I know the music you like;...