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March 13, 2025 | Fiction

Engineer

Audrey Lee

I wondered if ingenue had any etymological roots to engineer in Russian, which sounds the same as ingenue in English, and also wondered if Mikhail would sleep next to me again if I asked him to.

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March 12, 2025 | Fiction

In Real Life

Chris Wu

Finally she told him she was feeling the same way, but that she didn’t have the words for it. Just the emoji of the face with only eyes and nothing else.

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March 11, 2025 | Fiction

The Friendly Ghost

Chris R. Morgan

The more lucid among them felt an uplift in his presence; as if, as one patient put it, they were passengers on a luxury ocean liner bound for Europe.

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March 10, 2025 | Poetry

guys i'm just a poet

Chloe Wheeler

what to do with this boyfriend sized chasm?