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Jul 1, 202417 min read

[Fiction] Night Surfer

by M. Golda Turner Surfers peel off wetsuits by their parked cars on a cliffside road. I carry my board toward them, knowing that these...

Jul 1, 20248 min read

[Fiction] Soundtrack

by Shannon Presby Jenna used to say she could hear the soundtrack of anyone’s life. I didn’t really believe her. She liked to make things...

May 28, 20245 min read

[Fiction] Dolphin Lovers

by Joanna Szeto Tiffany had thousands of dolphins in her room. She knows, she’s counted them. She had wall to wall posters of dolphins...

Apr 30, 20248 min read

[Fiction] The Abandoned Beach

By Kat Kovalevska Dana sat down on the curb outside the convenience store. She took out a cigarette and stared at it. She stopped smoking...

Apr 2, 202410 min read

[Fiction] Only in her Dreams

By Susan Delgado The distance between the two of them used to be 2,253 miles. Now, the distance is even greater. They had communicated...

Mar 5, 202415 min read

[Fiction] We Will Take It Slow Now

By Hunter Prichard Tracy bought them McDonald’s for a treat. Dutch had gotten a perfect score on his minute-math quiz and Beth was acting...

Feb 6, 20242 min read

[Fiction] Arrives in Santa Fe

By Viviane Vives She runs after the ugly truck he made beautiful, talks to trees, bathes in the rivers on the way. Just like he does....

Dec 15, 202311 min read

[Fiction] Rowboat

by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett The sky was black as Nina rowed past the Fun Zone. Fairy lights stretched over restaurant patios, and the...

Dec 15, 202313 min read

[Fiction] Night Swim

by Matt Ellis Mark emptied his pockets onto the bed before arranging his belongings into an orderly stack on the pillow: cell phone,...

Dec 15, 20232 min read

[Fiction] More than a Kerosene Lamp

by Christine Arroyo If you’d been dating this guy for six months, falling in love over shared environmental projects—his the ocean, yours...

Dec 15, 202315 min read

[Fiction] The Dreams of Birds

by Sam Moe What happens last is I leave. I know, I know I always leave. What no one ever asks is whether or not I was given a choice....

Dec 5, 20232 min read

[Fiction] Hypoxia

by Jake Dean The wave lands a meter in front of her and she’s thankful the lip doesn’t detonate on her back or on her surfboard, which...

Oct 24, 202310 min read

[Fiction] No One Owns the Sea

By Monica Igoe I went walking last night. Out past the yachts with silly names like Molly and Suaimhneas, and the one-man dinghies,...

Sep 12, 20235 min read

[Fiction] 'Ava with Cousins

‘Ava and Cousins By Mirm Hurula The wind is cold on my back. Even on the least heavy days, the air was never this cold. My body shudders...

Aug 1, 202318 min read

[Fiction] Eat Your Heart Out

By Mackenzie Kiera I’m awake when doctors cut out my heart. My heart had been growing steadily for nine (ten, really it’s ten) months,...

Jul 1, 20234 min read

[Fiction] Flight

by Kim Steutermann Rogers I know right away I’m going to feed the bird we’re not supposed to feed. Shawn and I are field biologists...

Jul 1, 202322 min read

[Fiction] I Think So, Fred

by Toni Kochensparger They stopped at Kat’s on the way home. It was where they’d stopped on their way home from the funeral, too. It was...

Jul 1, 20239 min read

[Fiction] Haenyeo

by Corinne Harrison Minji was parting long strands of seaweed, peering through the maze of underwater vegetation when she saw it. A...

Jul 1, 202318 min read

[Fiction] The Amazon Princess of Globeville

by Thomas C. Mavroudis 1980-1986 Catherine is a poor thing. She hears people say so. They say her teeth look like two fists balled up...

Jul 1, 202318 min read

[Fiction] Sun Salutations

by J. T. Townley I’ve been on lots of yoga retreats, though usually just down to Big Sur. I went to Kauai once, but that had more to do...

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