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Abigail Thomas

NOT BUGS, NOT AGAIN The only time I feel like myself is when I’m writing. The only time I am invulnerable. Otherwise I am a...

CNF Delays

Due to unforeseen circumstances, our CNF submissions and Flash Nonfiction contest were delayed. But have no fear! Our founding editors are here to...

Kathryn Petruccelli

Alternative Healing Practices She’d been playing the word game obsessively for weeks now. Every word she stumbled on, that fell unwittingly from a conversation partner’s lips,...

Allen Price

America's Black Atlas The definition of Americanness (sadly) remains color for many people ~Toni Morrison January 7, 2021 marked the 195th anniversary of eighty-year-old Occramer Marycoo, also known...

Wendy Fontaine

Munsey Avenue When I was three years old, my family’s house was struck by lightning. My parents and I were at the supermarket checkout counter...

Courtney Lund O’Neil

Not the Color of the Rainbow She stood outside, next to the horse corral, the morning dew still hung on the lips of palm trees....

Evan Senie

Like a Word on the Tip of Your Tongue When you drop from the pullup bar onto the old wooden stoop of your cabin in...

Jai Dulani

survivor’s guilt Does x imitate y? x | y x = I smoke microchips. To catch a ride to myself; to tune the healing frequency. y = The...

Victoria Lewis

The Red Notebook Most Sundays I do a long run in the morning. A distant train sounds its regular lament. Oncoming cars swing their headlights...

Julie Paul

Liberal When bringing your husband back from the dead, be liberal with the honey. Place it in his mouth, on the underside of his bottom...

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