Fiction
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By Hannah Colbert This piece has been selected by our editors to be nominated for the 2027 Pushcart Prize. I wake up in the spring, sun above me and icy ground below, as soon as my body thaws. The soft snow is dirty, and the forest floor is wet. I shift my spine experimentally; it’s stiff…
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By Natasha Soto I began to work for SínTitulo shortly after I moved to Bitterbridge. It was a translation company that put closed captions on documentary films. The films I worked on were mostly arthouse or documentary or raw archival footage, and the company didn’t use software or artificial intelligence to translate or transcribe because…
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By DB Bracey The Arthur Ashe statue stood stoic, keeping guard over Monument Avenue. Years had caused him to dull into a faded bronze. A cloudy night sky webbed with lightning. The storm marched on, but thunderstorms couldn’t cool injustice. The protesters poured down the side streets toward the avenue. Signs held high, call-and-response chants…
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By Arthur Lauritsen Both cat and owner were bespectacled. The owner, mostly because he had small round glasses on his button nose but also because he had a bespectacled name: Bob. He was neatly dressed even when outside in the garden. The cat was bespectacled because the cat was wise beyond his years, and like…
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By Makena Metz Aquarius 𖤓 | Capricorn ⏾ | Sagittarius ↑ Epiphany Spurling woke every morning to the sound of birdsong. She usually blinked awake in the warm sunlight streaming through her open windows and stretched until she felt her spine crack for England. This morning, Epiphany did not so much wake, as groggily shudder…
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By Kelly Murashige The hotel employees think a guest might be dead. He checked in five days ago, alone and smelling of liquor, and asked to switch out of the honeymoon suite. The front desk, then management, denied his request. They were sorry, they said, but all the rooms had been booked. He’s been here…
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By Monty Rozema Scorpio 𖤓 | Scorpio ⏾ | Leo ↑ This piece has been selected by our editors to be nominated for the 2026 Pushcart Prize. My dad always thinks there’s dogs barking – There’s not. He’s just losing it. I should know, because I come over twice a week to help look after…
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By Lauren Stark Leo 𖤓 | Gemini ⏾ | Aquarius ↑ Oko looked down at their ba’s hand, which lay limp on top of their own in the sunset room. This hand had survived flood and fire, famine and revolt. It had rested suspended in serum on the ship that brought him to Elos, when…
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By Elsie Steane You sit next to me on the bench. It is so much easier to have these conversations when one doesn’t have to look at the other. I imagine that is why confession booths are like that. And why the worst conversations all happen in the car. Tonight we have our confession booth.…
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By Nadia Amina Rabbani Capricorn 𖤓 | Sagittarius ⏾ | Cancer ↑ I woke from a deep sleep. From such a deep sleep my brain fumbled to even remember what being awake was, what sleep was, and who I was. I didn’t remember falling asleep and though my vision felt crisp, I couldn’t really make…
A Curious Moon 