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Wandering

Jared CarlsonDecember 31, 2020August 22, 2021

I’m lying on a gurney, being wheeled down a long hallway with overhead fluorescent lights, while chewing on—what I think—is a tooth. If I had to guess, then maybe a bicuspid, the ones in between the canines and molars. A nurse with short curly brown hair is holding my hand,...

Contests Current Features Fiction Issue 45

In Dayton, Ohio, in 1919

John HarnDecember 31, 2020April 21, 2021

Paul married a stenographer. A girl from church with ice-blue eyes and sandy hair braided in the modern way. He was nineteen, assembling pumps for Barney & Smith, the giant rail-car maker. They talked about things over tea. Big things in low voices. They liked the idea of in-laws and...