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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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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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He Bit Me at Salesforce Tower by Elsa Givan

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I’m on the train going to see Him after work on a Wednesday. It’s one of the new […]

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Lunch with Mom, 1990 by Anna Moore

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I was wearing a ribbed white tee shirt with a wide scoop neck and faded khaki pants with […]

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Meromictic by Rosalind Reynolds-Grey

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At this present moment, I am a meromictic lake. My face is awash with saltwater sweat, indistinguishable to […]

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Phantosmia by Freya Dean

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[Phantom smell; also called an ‘olfactory hallucination’; smelling an odour that is not actually there.] These were the […]

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I don’t want to go to the Taj Mahal by Charlie Hill

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When I was twenty-four, my girlfriend of three years announced she was leaving me to go travelling. She’d […]

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Not Our Cat by Paul Shacksmyth

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I paint the shed a gun metal blue and fix the rotten wooden panels at the base where […]

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