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Back to SearchMother's Day, After Everything
All of us remember what Mother’s Day was like before we became sterile: flowers and candy for living mothers and tears for dead ones and anger at bad…
2 years, 4 months ago
Salemo
There is a city called Salemo. Salemo sits atop a cliffside at the edge of a sea. | © 2024 by David Marino. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.
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2 years, 4 months ago
David Anaxagoras | Under a Star, Bright as Morning
Jo drives urgently as they race toward the star, not sure how far to go, racing because the baby is coming tonight, now, and He (a He, of course) is …
2 years, 4 months ago
Modupeoluwa Shelle | How to Know Your Father Is a God
I know you’ve been following me since I left school, boarded the train, and took to the alley. Why didn’t I run? | © 2024 by Modupeoluwa Shelle. Narr…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Pedra
Audio Recording, “Lydia and Ecco at Insight,” February 3, 2134 I didn’t run. If the boy had not called to you, you would have run. I would not have r…
2 years, 5 months ago
a testament to indirection, an enigma, the sun above
So, this is awkward. We aren’t at the stage in our relationship where I’d feel comfortable revising your life-poem on the fly. Even as a backup plan …
2 years, 5 months ago
Islands of Stability
Jeanne Calment said she was 122, but there were questions. The records from 1875 were shaky, some of them deliberately burned. Tanaka Kane, 119, was …
2 years, 5 months ago
Season of Weddings
To be fair, the first one is work, so he doesn’t even get to pick his outfit. But an olive-scented breeze squirrels joyfully through his hair; waiter…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics
If a robot stands alone in a field, staring into the forlorn distance as it obeys the last order it was given by a human, that order being, “Don’t mo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Only Some of True Love's Miracles
True love’s kiss works miracles. Everyone knows the story: The sculptor who carved a perfect woman, his own creation, and when he fell in love with h…
2 years, 5 months ago