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Prose

Fiction

Griffy LaPlante, 2025

Collect

Fiction

Griffy LaPlante, 2025

This is a story about compost, and it ends—fittingly—with death.

It begins, however, on a Tuesday: the first Tuesday of the month, at six o’clock in the evening. Six o’clock in the evening on the first Tuesday of the month is a time which, if you were in the know, would signify to you that the residents of 77 Lilac Street are almost done with their House Meeting. Outside the moon takes its time to rise, cannot be rushed.

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Fiction

Griffy LaPlante, 2025

Nonfiction

Susannah Pitmann

Earning your Lighthouse

Nonfiction

Susannah Pitmann

There was no time for tears when your bilge pumps failed. Somewhere about two hundred miles off Cape Hatteras, where the HMS Bounty sank and left its captain drowned. You tried not to think of him, swallowed up in those same waters. All you should have been thinking about was keeping your heading, two hundred-five degrees, with some variance to take the ocean swell on the boat’s quarter.

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Nonfiction

Susannah Pitmann

Fiction

Fran Kurstejn

Elisabeth's Leg

Fiction

Fran Kurstejn

We named you Elisabeth after this street, Elisabeth Street—look where I’m pointing now—on the south side of the city, starting at Fifth National Bank—that’s the square building with the bronze cuckoo on top—and it ends somewhere around the big convention center—the glass circle building where they hold the dance recitals and the spelling bees—where it becomes Convention Center Dr. and no longer Elisabeth St.

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Fiction

Fran Kurstejn

Poetry