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By Huina Zheng
Silence began to cry again. Ling pulled the quilt over her head, but it slipped in anyway, sighing, murmuring, sobbing between the layers of cotton until fatigue dragged her into another world. In that place where the border between visible and invisible blurred, silence became another kind of sound: the breathing of shoe soles...
By Mary Higbee
Margaret ate her peanut butter toast, leaning over the sink. By the third bite, she remembered that peanut butter toast had also been last night’s dinner. She shook her head as she chewed, as if warning herself. If the kids knew that peanut butter toast was her go-to meal, they would have one of their serious talks with her. She ...
By Erin Jamieson
It was a Wednesday when a small seaside town erected tents.
The town had always been quaint: rolling hills, a coffee shop, a thrift store.
An omnipresent aroma of hazelnut coffee and autumn leaves.
But no one could...
By Fernanda Sarti
She met him in the liminal hours of travel, suspended between departure and return, when everything felt possible and nothing promised.
At the bar, he leaned against the counter, sleeves pushed to his elbows, his white shirt catching the glow of the lights. His smile was easy, uns...
By Leftie Aubé
I always thought we’d be five. Five’s a good number. We were three when I was growing up and it felt too little. I daydreamed about us being five. An older brother and a baby sister. I always got mad when my parents told me it was impossible. My partner’s are five and they are the happiest family I know. My sister-in-law’s are five and my ...
