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Spring 2019

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Comics

The Hit

A hard-boiled hit man in Edge City is ready for anything...except this.

Featured

The Sewing Machine

“There’s no room for the Singer. And besides, you don’t sew anymore,” her daughter wearily said. The Singer sewing machine had been in every apartment [...]

Short Stories

A Good Deal

It was easier to go through life without romance, but sometimes I wished for companionship. Someone to talk with, to eat with, to watch a [...]


Melody Woods

Melody Woods always knew that she was different from everyone else in the small farming town of Linden, Michigan. But learning how to survive as an outsider in plain sight was a skill that she had learned early on in her new home.


Flash Fiction

Chili

The obituary read: “Mary Elanor Abigail Thomas, the Fourth, beloved daughter, sister, and mother passed away peacefully at her home in town earlier this week. [...]


Dress Code

Phobias are more common than you might think. Spiders. Heights. Public speaking. Alex Fields lives in terror someone might do something wrong and not get [...]


Poetry

Hey Can Lady

  Hey Can Lady – I wonder if you were ever anybody’s sexy baby and if you were, what went wrong? Those cast off clothes [...]


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The Hit

A hard-boiled hit man in Edge City is ready for anything...except this.

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