Please Go Away

If you're looking for a sign, this is it.

Aug 21 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley

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Thumb Drive

It's Christmas in Cleveland when Victoria Crane watches her husband pick his teeth with his own fingernail and finally sees her marriage clearly.

Aug 6 • Victoria Crane

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July 2026

The Responsible Thing

A joyride down a country road leaves a child holding a dead chicken, five dollars, and the impossible moral burdens of growing up with addiction.

Jul 23 • sallie reynolds

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Lost and Found: George's Serbian Textbook

A bookstore mix-up sparks one sleepless night with a stranger and Gertrude Stein.

Jul 16 • Tamara MC, Ph.D. 💖🦄🌈🌍🦋🦄 🌵🍭🛼

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Gaps in My Logic

The scam wasn't convincing because it was clever, but because it understood human psychology

Jul 8 • Kristen Martin

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Lie | Michael Barrish

All of a sudden, birds and bees in the back room of a pharmacy

Jul 2 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley

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June 2026

Another Day

A Zimbabwe-born artist in the Midwest struggles to find the right words for this so-called ordinary life

Jun 25 • Heshima

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Andy Ross Makes The Best Scrambled Eggs

The humor writer and Tara Reid defender answers a few tiny questions

Jun 22 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley

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Measuring Jail Time In Five-Star Mashed Potatoes

And other things they don't tell you about when you turn yourself in

Jun 18 • Sean Covington

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May 2026

A Girl As A Pyrotechnic Display

Fiery flash nonfiction on growing up in a fundamentalist religion where girl-bodies were synonymous with sin.

May 20 • LaDonna Witmer

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April 2026

A 'Note' But Make It An 'Article'

When trying to file an essay is like Salieri killing Mozart

Apr 17 • Blaise Allysen Kearsley

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Going To The Go-Go's

A concert, a critic, a coke habit, and how the beat goes on

Apr 3 • MUTHR, FCKD

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