Jen Coleman: Dreaming Your Silence Is a Postal Service Error, 2005

What are these notes passed, folded letters, and communiqués? It is certainly a season for thin spaces and the thoughts that fill them. Here’s Jen Coleman’s poem “Dreaming Your Silence Is a Postal Service Error, 2005“:

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This poem originally appeared in SC 4.3, available in print & ebook forms. For more connective tissue, subscribe! Our envelopes are never fully empty, so, read on!

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Kelsey Allen: Heartbeat

A strange attractor is the state the system tends toward for a variety of starting conditions. Somehow, however you start you end up in the same place. Fate can feel like a whirlpool in other words. Today, Kelsey Allen’s short fiction “Heartbeat“:

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This story originally appeared in SC 4.2, which is printed and ebooked at our store. Subscribe, what else can we say? Read on.

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Daniel W. Thompson: Yes, I Know, How, When, Okay

The trains are coming off the tracks and the roads are sinking into the bogs these days, and here’s a flash to carry among the trees, Daniel W. Thompson’s “Yes, I Know, How, When, Okay” from Storm Cellar 4.3:

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Beth Towle: The River Woodlawn

Dear Reader, our swamps are cold swamps and our cataracts are whitecapped irii, and this week we’re pouring forth from the archives Beth Towle‘s “The River Woodlawn”:

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This poem originally appeared in SC 4.1. (Psst. Subscribe or download issues or get your print over thisaway, because you can hear the falls.) Read on!

NEW Flash – Caleb Tankersly: We Have a City

We’re super-tingly to share one of our #Pushcart2016 nominees this week, Caleb Tankersley’s “We Have a City”:

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