The Ashtray Accordion
Tia was thirty-four years old, and she was bored out of her skull, which was the only reason she said yes to any of this.
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Tia was thirty-four years old, and she was bored out of her skull, which was the only reason she said yes to any of this.
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Six years ago I kissed a man at a party and he disappeared the next morning.
I'm Astrid.
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Selena found him on the port side of the main deck, right after breakfast, leaning on the railing with a coffee cup going cold in one hand.
I woke up alone in my own bed at seven in the morning, staring at the ceiling like it had answers, and the first thing I thought was: that…
I had spent the whole day on my knees scrubbing other people's toilets, which at forty-two is rougher on the back than it used to be, and…
Louis Webb stood in the doorway of the converted loft in a suburb of Montreal and looked at the banner hanging crookedly over a landscape…
I'm Isa, I'm twenty-five, and I'm in Lisbon because I'm petty.
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The elevator in Shirley's building had a mirror in it, and I made the mistake of looking into it on the ride up.
Paul had been coming to the regional insurance conference in Columbus for eleven years, and he could honestly say it never got more…
The car didn't want to start.
*This one's for the nights when the woods feel alive and you just want to run your hands over someone new.
Vikki Larsen, forty-four years old and a nurse at the clinic for the better part of two decades, parked her ancient blue Corolla at the…
The Ridge Note, Marigold Hearth, Dusk Story, The Prairie Poet
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