High Mileage

Casey DW Jones

The creases in her face ran deep as irrigation ditches and her back was a twisted mess, but she could still pull off that long-legged strut that drove those small-town men wild, especially in her electric lime heels.

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The Hat

Kayla Rutledge

On her twenty-fourth birthday, in a tiny loft on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Rebekah Bedfield stole a hat.

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A Kind of Breathing

Gina Willner-Pardo

When she told him they were finished, he sighed deeply. “I will always love you. None of this has anything to do with me not loving you,” he said, as though he was the one who’d ended it.

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The Falling Down Side

Emily Choate

Johanna drives past the fraying seams of brush where Millerton’s flat gray fields meet miles of dense woods. The latest driest-on-record spring has opened in kindling— more like the remnant of a tough season than the rebirth of anything much.

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Adelante

Tomás Baiza

A spasm of guilt ripped through Aurelio sixty miles east of Ely, Nevada. He barely registered the whine of tires over the rumblestrip just before the truck left the highway at seventy miles per hour.

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How It Goes

Alia Georges

It wasn’t because we were on the boy side of the store. Mom didn’t care about that kind of thing. She just had that look on her face like she couldn’t believe she tossed out her cigarette just to come in here and look at this shit.

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