March 15, 2012

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Spring 2012

The Exhausted Pose by Jeremy Garrett

March 15, 2012

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Spring 2012

Alex turned down the volume of the Christian radio station.

December 15, 2011

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Winter 2011

Word Booth by Michael Landau

December 15, 2011

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Winter 2011

In the center of town was a square, and in the center of the square was a huge green lawn, and in the center of the lawn was a booth.

December 15, 2011

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Winter 2011

Coward by John Henry Fleming

December 15, 2011

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Winter 2011

When he was six, his father held a knife to his throat and threatened to kill him if he ever touched his LPs again.

December 15, 2011

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Winter 2011

Demetrius by Kem Joy Ukwu

December 15, 2011

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Winter 2011

I turn twenty-five today. My birthday party will start later this evening.

September 15, 2011

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Stalled Symphony by Liesl Wilke

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

The women in the Hearthstone Mall bathroom are not unlike horses at the gate, competing in a race they don’t understand, didn’t sign up for, won’t admit exists.

September 15, 2011

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Credo by Bridget Brewer

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

The former Father Peter acts the same as always, from what we can see.

September 15, 2011

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Promises, Promises by Susan Finch

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

I unzip the front of my flight suit, peeling back the sweaty polyester, but I stop halfway.

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

Motherlove by Mark Farrington

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

Grown now and alone, Manion remembers his past as severed bits of planets revolving around his mother, the sun.

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

I cut my hair when my husband, Eamon, died.

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

The Mattress Boy of Cameroon by Kate Jackson

September 15, 2011

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The Mattress Boy of Cameroon by Kate Jackson

Do you hear him? They call him the Mattress Boy of Cameroon.

September 15, 2011

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Oregon Grind by Rick Attig

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

In the thin shade of the ragged stand of poplars, Foster raised a fist of bloody gauze into the air.

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

The English Speakers by Sarah Quigley

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

They are English speakers, he and she. They speak English very well: very well indeed.

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

What Happy Couples Do by Anna Cox

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

I told my husband to move out, and then I went to the grocery to buy more limes.

June 15, 2011

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Summer 2011

And They Pillaged the Dead by David Cameron*

June 15, 2011

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Summer 2011

And They Pillaged the Dead by David Cameron*

The strangest part was that smoking hash with grandma wasn’t the strangest part.

June 15, 2011

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Summer 2011

Truth Poker by Mark Brazaitis

June 15, 2011

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Summer 2011

Congressman Stevens greeted my father and me at the door of his house in northwest Washington, D.C.

June 15, 2011

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Summer 2011

Some Of Us Can Leave by Sara Schaff

June 15, 2011

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Summer 2011

People say your life flashes before your eyes right before you die, but it also happens when you find out you’re pregnant.

March 15, 2011

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Spring 2011

The Time of Plenty by Judith Slater*

March 15, 2011

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Spring 2011

It was the fall of 1960, the smell of burning leaves was in the air, and Jack Kennedy was beginning to look like he might beat Richard Nixon.

March 15, 2011

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Spring 2011

Here/Now by Frances Clow

March 15, 2011

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Spring 2011

It’s a Sunday night tradition:

-I go and buy the cheapest bottle of red wine from California at the liquor store.

March 15, 2011

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Spring 2011

Schadenfreude by Melanie Kokolios*

March 15, 2011

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Spring 2011

A story begins with a woman sitting at her kitchen table at 7 a.m., having just received a call from the police.

December 15, 2010

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Winter 2010, Raymond Carver Contest

The White Rabbit by Maire Cooney

December 15, 2010

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Winter 2010, Raymond Carver Contest

Lunchtime drinking, he’d said, shaking his head, smiling. Terrible business, isn’t it?