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John Tait Wins the Gival Press Short Story Award-2024
John Tait Wins the Gival Press Short Story Award-2024
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Rebecca Claire Brooks The Roar of the Foley Artists Ari had just learned from the rabbi that the Jews had a concept of the afterlife and...
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Linkage by Steven J. Cahill Harlan never knew what his brother had under the hood. Always something new. Hotter plugs. Bigger carburetor...
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All the Obvious Reasons by Lynn Stegner What you heard were the hooves of the three horses with the mule at the end clattering through...
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Void by Karenmary Penn Iris returned from work to discover her husband Cropper, still dressed in his brown uniform, sitting in the...
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The Music She Will Never Hear by Kristin FitzPatrick On the way to the mine, the historian lets Jace control the radio, if there are any...
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Fat Tails by Daniel Degnan One by one I grab the salmon as they wriggle, spit, hiss – some with fins ripped off from their struggle in...
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Jan 9, 2021
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Jan 8, 2021
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Water by Tin Johnston She was a good sleeper, a dependable sleeper, but that night Charlotte woke up with her heart whumping, like a...
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Better Times by Mark Wisniewski There were at least thirty hornets in my medicine chest, which my landlord insisted I keep closed until...
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