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Andrew Bertaina

The Old Road I don’t want to read another story about two people divorcing, about the way things break down, a missed coffee date, a missed...

2020 Flash Nonfiction Contest

Sweet is thrilled to announce its fourth annual Flash Essay Contest. Broadly speaking, we appreciate a close attention to language and a quirky sense of humor,...

Lindsay Hutton

Anthem If we could turn back time, if we could find a way back to those heady months in 2015 and give all the stars...

S. Isabel Choi

A Near Miss Wally was the first to kiss me. Inside a roller rink in New Jersey, let’s say 1988, I sailed around curved corners...

Nikki Lyssy

Swimming The locker room smells like chlorine and perfume and sweat. While I wait with the other 12-to-13-year-olds, it is all I can do to...

Megan Baxter

On Pulling White Hairs In the mirror, my eyes wear from searching silver out from the darkness. When I catch myself in the pupil, I...

Sayantani Dasgupta

On a Sunday Afternoon in Italy Shower. Pack your laptop, your writing notebook. Don’t forget sunglasses. Nor the handkerchief. They’ll embolden you to leave the...

Gregory Emilio

In the Afterlife Every Night is Wine Wednesday As a child I imagined blood leaving the body, streaming, spurting from the wounds at his feet,...

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Weather Report Another person has died today, bit by a mosquito. The bugs come out at night, report newscasters, dusk to dawn a dangerous time....

Tammy Delatorre

Surfing Lessons   Take me to Lahaina, near the break.   Make me sign the waiver, the one where I assume all the risk.   If I die by drowning,...

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