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Vines, Pt. 1

“Is it too late to go around asking strangers for tylenol?”

by Mina Quesen on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Vines, Pt. 2

The dramatic conclusion to a serialized tale of owlery.

by Mina Quesen on February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

Sunday Afternoon, April

There is a tiny man in her hair and he is screaming at me. “Hello there!” He is screaming. “Please remove me from this strand of hair!” He is screaming. “This is a terribly inconvenient place for me to be right now!” He is screaming.

by Kevin Zou on December 3, 2016

Schrödinger’s Lottery

“Maybe it was the cheap thrill of furiously scratching them with a quarter, and seeing all those shimmery silver shavings pile up.”

by Katie Duggan on October 8, 2017October 8, 2017

Dreams of Ghosts

“Below, the sea was moonlight, bright as commercial breakfast milk. The tide pulled forward and back, morse code telling me all the ways to escape the sleepy town.”

by Mina Quesen on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

Supernovae

“Sometimes it would end with go to your room but sometimes it would end with why are you so angry? and that hurt a lot more.”

by Jane Castleman on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

How Many Beasts

“When we pull up to Auntie’s in our blood-colored minivan, Olly is definitely gone.”

by Cassandra James on June 28, 2021

Storyteller

“He had built a life before, and watched it fall apart.”

by Serena Alagappan on December 2, 2018December 4, 2018

Ice Cream for Two

“I remember thinking, wow, isn’t this so picturesque, isn’t this so magnificent, isn’t this so exquisite.”

by Rebecca Cao on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021

STAY FOR GRANDMA

In a dark kitchen, bread crumbs, ghosts, and gooseberries.

by Maddy Pauchet on December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

An Imaginary Collection

“I sometimes wonder, would you be able to reconstruct some image of me through the objects I’ve left behind? Would you know what I looked like? Smelled like? How I acted in public and in private?”

by Archie Golden on December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

Exeat

I want to revisit every city I have been, and take you along this time. Rewrite all the sights, all the memories.

by Aoife Zuria on February 21, 2016February 28, 2016


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