Saddleback

Elissa Field

The scrub smoked already, the earth itself baking animals out of holes. Tree roots flaming calderas, a thousand degrees beneath the soil.

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Two Stories

Francine Witte

The depot dog a scrunch in the velvet night, his neon family, somewhere, maybe, wondering where he ran off to.

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Summer of the Dead

David Waters

A week later his blood alcohol level came back at 8 times the legal limit. I thought how one minor detail changed a whole life story.

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Whale Song Lullabies

Tommy Dean

Everything she says to me while we wait in the parent drop-off line feels like she’s trying to say something else, but it’s a language I don’t understand.

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