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One Perfect Day (Amanda Marx)

It was just a glimpse I caught of you Not quite enough to fill the gap Between the knowing and déjà vu My mirror image to unwrap Reflected there behind …

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Amanda Marx

Ogres are like Onions (Kyle Leong)

The stars saved my life, it’s true. I had the whole thing planned out. There is a table by the lake. Sort of. It’s either an uncomfortable piece of picnic …

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Kyle Leong

Mother and Son (Stuart Barnes)

  For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings —Shakespeare _ Mid-December 1994. Recently I’d turned 17; my parents had …

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Stuart Barnes

Blurred Impressions
(Callie Doyle-Scott)

I wish I could say that I had a plan. But when I eventually decided to say something… it was as if the awkwardness in my gut dissolved and carried …

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Callie Doyle-Scott
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  • Home
  • About
    • The Journal
    • An editorial-shaped box
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  • Vault
    • Fiction
      • Lies to Live By
      • Being Sure
    • Interviews
      • Lighthouse Yarns
    • Non Fiction
      • Rogue State
      • Verity La Forum
    • Poetry
      • Heightened Talk
      • Spoken Word
    • Reviews
      • Through the Looking Glass
    • Projects
      • Black Cockatoo
      • Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project
      • Discoursing Diaspora
      • Disrupt
      • Out of Limbo
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