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Category: Short Story

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A Reckoning by Michael Gorkin

She had no intention of going to town that day. The rundown colonial buildings, the beggars sprawled in the dusty main plaza, the streets with

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Teeth by M’shai Dash

It was the summer of 1999 in what was then called Chocolate City. It was a sweltering season curated by music that sprang forth from

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Things I Remember by Suvi Mahonen

The weirdness finally wears off when there’s only five minutes remaining. It takes the dregs of my limited self-control to stop myself from jumping off

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Playhouse by Nikki Smith

One I listened to classical music from a young age. Not Bach or Debussy, but these deep, guttural religious symphonies like Joseph Haydn’s Die Schöpfung

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