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The Commuter

Fiction

Death Is Her Next Big Commission

"The Costume Maker," a short story by Debbie Vance

May 3 - Debbie Vance
Fiction mannequins in white

My Close Attention Is My Boyfriend’s Undoing

"Unraveling," a short story by Karen Heuler

Apr 19 - Karen Heuler
Fiction roses and thread

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Genderless Mollusk

"Black Arion," a short story by Charlie J. Stephens

Apr 5 - Charlie J. Stephens
Fiction reflective snail
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Death Is Her Next Big Commission

May 3 - Debbie Vance

Keep Your Entrails out of My Baby Shower

Mar 8 - Kate Francia

Gator Butchering For Beginners

Jun 4 - Kristen Arnett

God is a Twelve-Year-Old Girl

May 20 - Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
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Your Only Job Is to Ignore That Phone

"The Temporary Job," a short story by Hannah Gersen

Mar 22 - Hannah Gersen
Fiction orange phone

Keep Your Entrails out of My Baby Shower

"Eating for Two," a fiction debut by Kate Francia

Mar 8 - Kate Francia
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Solving the Riddle of My Mother’s Secret Room

"The Clown Room," a fiction debut by CJ Green

Feb 22 - CJ Green
Fiction clown shoes

One Fjord Away from a Second Date

"Compaction Birds," a story from "Wild Swims" by Dorthe Nors, translated by Misha Hoekstra

Jan 25 - Dorthe Nors
Fiction sandy coast

You Can’t Hoard Your Way into the American Dream

"Son," a short story by Mike Schoch

Jan 4 - Mike Schoch
Fiction

How Not to Babysit a Crocodile

"Crocodiles in the Pool," a short story by Jessica Lee Richardson

Dec 7 - Jessica Lee Richardson
Fiction baby crocodiles

Don’t Cross These Capitalist Flowers

"lilac bed" and "the ritual," two stories by Tarah Knaresboro

Nov 30 - Tarah Knaresboro
Fiction lilac bus

The Force of a Daughter Cannot Be Measured

"The Science Teacher's Daughter," a short story debut by Ana B. Freeman

Nov 23 - Ana B. Freeman
Fiction classroom

We are the 300-year-old big bois of the sea and we did not come to play

A story by Emrys Donaldson

Nov 9 - Emrys Donaldson
Fiction big crab
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