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Deathband by Andrew Oldham

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Carol and I play a new game in the supermarket, our masks over our nose and mouth so […]

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Eggs Quarantine by Ellie Slee

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‘My baby humps is sore.’ My three year old is dressed in a diaper and a pair of […]

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Selfless by Rachele Salvini

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My friend didn’t know that her ex would show up at the funeral. He sat on the bench […]

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Swamped by Gerri Brightwell

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We called in to see him between running errands. My mother led the way—through town and up a […]

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Atheism by Patrick Hackett

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Most of us have been there. You are at a party, glass of wine in hand. More often […]

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Things You Gave Me When You Left by John Christopher Nelson

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white nylon rope A text, that you had been killed as the passenger in a head-on collision. I […]

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Hunting for Sunflowers by Sarah Nolen

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“Excuse me, do you speak English?” A mother asks dragging an oversized suitcase through the narrow train aisle […]

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I Never Had a Mother by Ailsa Cox

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My mother never had a mother. That’s what she always says, I never knew what it was to […]

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Henry In The Departure Lounge by Ingrid Persaud

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Trinidadian Hindus contend that a direct correlation exists between the combustion rate of a body on a funeral […]

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Bodies of Light by Ebba Brooks

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It’s 1976, I’m seven years old and two things happen. First, mum becomes very fat. And second, she […]

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