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The Commuter

Prose

How to Bury Your Shape-Shifting Mother

“The Old Higue's Son,” flash fiction by Renesha Dhanraj

Feb 18 - Renesha Dhanraj
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My Lust Will Melt All the Snow in Antarctica

“Steam,” flash fiction by Jean-Luke Swanepoel

Feb 4 - Jean-Luke Swanepoel
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A Genius Can Always Get Their Hands on a Violin

“Prodigies,” flash fiction by Drue Denmon

Jan 21 - Drue Denmon
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Your Only Job Is to Ignore That Phone

Mar 22 - Hannah Gersen

Waiting on the Floor for God

May 14 - Rachel Engelman

Gator Butchering For Beginners

Jun 4 - Kristen Arnett

The Ugliest Babies in the World

Oct 26 - Vanessa Chan
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Waiting to Blossom In a Family of Golden Children

“Late Bloomer,” flash fiction by Valentine Sargent

Apr 9 - Valentine Sargent
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A Middling Review of Original Sin

“The Book of Eve,” flash fiction by Genevieve Abravanel

Feb 26 - Genevieve Abravanel
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Love in the Time of Gym Class

“Presidential Fitness,” flash fiction by Rachel Mans McKenny

Feb 12 - Rachel Mans McKenny
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The Revolution Will Not Be Sober

“Textiles,” flash fiction by Daniel Turtel

Jan 8 - Daniel Turtel
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Somebody Please Dump Me

“The Breakup,” flash fiction by Helen Anderson

Nov 20 - Helen Anderson
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I’m Frighteningly Horny for My Girlfriend’s Ghost

“Fucking Ghosts!” flash fiction by Hannah Gregory

Oct 30 - Hannah Gregory
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A Cruise Ship for the Disappeared

"Awaiting the Declassification of Documents at Some Point in the Near or Distant Future," flash fiction by Corey Farrenkopf

Oct 16 - Corey Farrenkopf
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Mrs. Morrison Corrects Her Obituary

A fiction debut by Taisiya Kogan

Oct 2 - Taisiya Kogan
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A Three-Bedroom Victorian to Kill For

“House Hunting,” a fiction debut by Mary Heitkamp

Sep 25 - Mary Heitkamp
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