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“… His dreams are tiny—more feeling than story, really. Simple, beautiful even. Every question, its own answer. That’s all he has. Like smears of color in motion with no focus. …” Reckonings of Oblivion + 2 by Sam Rasnake in Frigg friggmagazine.com/issuesixtythre…

“Let’s say there was a beautiful boy when you were sixteen.” "Let’s say there was no boy ..." "Let’s say there’s no such thing as a happy ending." “Let’s say there’s a point where imagination fails you. But …” Jacqueline Doyle in The Florida Review cah.ucf.edu/floridareview/…

"How you clutched its wooden mane in your small hands. How your father said how long is this going to take." "You laughed. You remembered you laughed." what shines, what doesn't, what's what, what isn't Cathy Ulrich in BULL mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

“Sometimes I wake at night, thinking I should tell the truth.” “And sometimes I think (thoughts I push back) ...” “Sometimes, I want a best friend who ...” Lori Sambol Brody in Doric Literary doric-literary.com/2025/01/01/sec…

“Conversation is a keeping on at this point, dashes of diction, seasoning them sentences with more sentences, exclaiming her exemplary points with another thing 1, and another thing 2, and another thing 3.” ✨💚Exodus Oktavia Brownlow💚✨ in Doric Literary doric-literary.com/2025/01/01/bob…

“Only she knows she lives in an illusion and she pretends she doesn’t know the world is fake, because that’s part of the tale.” Mileva Anastasiadou 🍉 in oddball foundation oddballmagazine.com/flash-fiction-…

“I love this—when mutability happens, old plots turned new after some years …” “… but I’m already on the other side with her—Anna—the two of us spinning like whirligigs in an open field …” Latecomer by Eileen Tomarchio is Bluesky bound in Reckon Review reckonreview.com/latecomer-fict…

“We aren’t dead. Just dead to each other.” “Friendship is a lifelong effort between two people who love each other deeply. It’s a lifelong effort between two people who hate each other a little, too.” Anna Vangala Jones in Rejection Letters rejection-letters.com/2025/01/02/now…

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“My pet ghost apologizes that she’s not a very good ghost.” “My pet ghost says I’m lucky because …” Alphabet + 2 by Claudia Monpere in Does It Have Pockets doesithavepockets.com/fiction/claudi…

“She knows that when the guests are gone, their promises disappear like the sun when it sets a torch to the horizon ...” The Sea is Kindest to Poets + 1 by Amy Marques in Does It Have Pockets doesithavepockets.com/fiction/amy-ma…

“I wonder if her name is an old-fashioned one, a name of yore (what even is yore?) And I’m thinking maybe it’s Marjory or Ethel or Mrs Ada Quinn.” “She gives me the gentlest nod and whispers, ‘you just …'” Kathy Hoyle. 📚🖋🍀 in Does It Have Pockets doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kathy-…

“Love is different in space.” “Someone watches your every inhale and lip bite. Notes the hitch of your breath when he runs his tongue along the shell of your ear.” “… but you can close your eyes.” Meghan Phillips in matchbook matchbooklitmag.com/mb/phillips/te…

“because I was (and will always be) a little more than what is allowed to be loved, I quickly learned, like a chess player, to look for the move that is ten turns beyond where we are in the moment. ...” Everyday Cat Hair and Snags by jrouse Ninth Letter ninthletter.com/2025/01/07/jen…

"They know how to camouflage, to press hard into one another, to hide by being seen." "Sometimes she maps her bruises, the ones on her neck or her thighs, the ones she doesn't remember getting and the ones she does." Creeps by Joshua Jones Lofflin in Wigleaf wigleaf.com/202501creeps.h…

"... I have grown another day wiser, but of course this isn’t true. I have grown another day closer to coldness ..." Everything Goes by Jad Josey in ballast ballastjournal.com/jad-josey

"I hide myself in muscle, in warrior football jerseys, and bouncy cheerleader girlfriends, in stormy surfing and outrigger paddling, my skin always bronzed, my hair shorn close, not an ounce of doubt peeking through ..." Melissa Llanes Brownlee in The Sunlight Press thesunlightpress.com/2025/01/13/pul…

"Sunlight silvered the naked canopies of trees, and the Genesee River, its course a stark contrast to the orderly placement of skyscrapers and streets, glinted like a snake let loose in a classroom ..." Firmament, Engine Roar, Jewels by Melissa Ostrom in Red Rock Review

"You don’t say that now when you skip school and buy a cone with a flake it tastes so much like fear you want to spit it off your tongue and ..." that *can* that *can't* that man that mum that you this one from Kik Lodge in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/01/16/mon…

"They’re offended by her light, a bright blue-white luminescence, like glowworms on cave walls in New Zealand, or so she hears." the distance of *until*, a wish when it wanes, a smile when it settles Melanie Maggard in Milk Candy Review milkcandyreview.home.blog/2025/01/23/moo…