October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Laughing and Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Laughing and Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

The first time I had a gun pointed at me I was 14 and I ran home crying, and my brother laughed at me, calling me burra, saying I’d better get used to it. I didn’t know if he meant getting used to seeing guns or getting used to being stupid.

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

A Survivor Story by Dan Hernandez

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

When Colin left the House for the first time after his last treatment cycle, he said he was “going to grab some air.”

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

The Difficult Kind by Stephanie Austin

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

So, it snowed. Just a little.

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

A Girl Called Penny by Jacqueline Guidry

July 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Summer 2017

A Girl Called Penny by Jacqueline Guidry

By the end of my first month of piano, Miss Harry pretty much pronounced me void of rhythm and close to tone deaf but tried to be tactful in laying out my faults, not wanting to offend my mother.

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

Gifts by Joanna Pearson

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

Lynn Drucker was the sort of woman who had made me reluctant to attend the group in the first place, and now she wanted to be my best friend.

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

Evolve by Jeff Moscaritolo

April 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Spring 2017

Keep in mind, I was still new in town. I didn’t know people yet. I had no community here, no family. At a time when I needed to be seen, she saw me.

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

Next to Godliness by Lacey Jane Henson

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

After Mom and Dad split up for the third time, Dad left immediately and Mom spent a record-breaking week in her bathrobe.

January 23, 2017

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Winter 2017

Spill by Eric Cipriani

January 23, 2017

Carve Magazine

Winter 2017

They’ve finally done it, found a way to kill us all. This is how my father greets me on the phone this morning. “It’s on Channel 7,” he says.

October 24, 2016

Carve Magazine

Fall 2016, Raymond Carver Contest

Come Down to the Water by Emily Flamm

October 24, 2016

Carve Magazine

Fall 2016, Raymond Carver Contest

“We are made of star stuff,” Alex tells me.

October 24, 2016

Carve Magazine

Fall 2016, Raymond Carver Contest

Mostly Sunny (with a Slight Chance of Rain) by Chelsea Catherine

October 24, 2016

Carve Magazine

Fall 2016, Raymond Carver Contest

Everyone thinks my thirteen-year-old sister can predict the weather.

July 15, 2016

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Summer 2016

Daughters by Tayler Heuston

July 15, 2016

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Summer 2016

I stood between the melons in the produce section at Lundardi’s, honeydew and watermelon, thinking about the lost daughters of the world.

July 15, 2016

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Summer 2016

You Know How That Disorients Me by Sofie Harsha

July 15, 2016

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Summer 2016

You Know How That Disorients Me by Sofie Harsha

I wish I could get out of here. The toilets don’t flush.

January 15, 2016

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Winter 2016

What Splits Us by Mark Farrington

January 15, 2016

Carve Magazine

Winter 2016

Things were going well with my girlfriend. Surprising, since we were both near forty and had never been married.

October 15, 2015

Carve Magazine

Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

All That We Burned, All That We Loved by Laura Haugen

October 15, 2015

Carve Magazine

Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

All That We Burned, All That We Loved by Laura Haugen

We started with the little things: scraps of junk, things of no import or stuff we could do without.

July 15, 2015

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Summer 2015

St. Augustine the Starfighter by Nicholas Belardes

July 15, 2015

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Summer 2015

St. Augustine the Starfighter by Nicholas Belardes

The spaceship is no more than a wood box.

July 15, 2015

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Summer 2015

Not From Here by Angela Mitchell

July 15, 2015

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Summer 2015

What I did was ask if I could get off the bus to use the bathroom, but I waited until we was almost to the Clark girls’ stop to do it.

April 15, 2015

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Spring 2015

The First Shampoo Hair Show by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

April 15, 2015

Carve Magazine

Spring 2015

The First Shampoo Hair Show by Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Because the soles of our shoes cannot be allowed to wear unchallenged, we stand at the corner near Ma Lizzie's bakery, while Gyasi hammers curved metal heel protectors that look like horseshoes onto their clean elastomer surfaces.

January 15, 2015

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Winter 2015

Constance's Law by Bridget Hardy

January 15, 2015

Carve Magazine

Winter 2015

It’s a small town, so everyone knows. There was a trial and national press, but a couple loud conversations at the bank spread the word just as well.

January 15, 2015

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Winter 2015

Steady Ender by René Houtrides

January 15, 2015

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Winter 2015

Rosemarie Ippolito is a steady ender. That’s somebody who don’t know how to jump rope but can turn the rope so that the kids who know how to jump rope can jump.

January 15, 2015

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Winter 2015

Heart Berries by Terese-Marie Mailhot

January 15, 2015

Carve Magazine

Winter 2015

Have you heard the one about Thunderwoman? She’s my namesake. Creator made her with the heart of Thunderbird.