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Flash Fiction: They'll Be Dehydrated

One crawled up the side of the bag and opened her wings, a hardtop convertible with legs.

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Fiction Friday: Loneliness Is Key

In the story I want to write, Rockland Manchester falls in love with the woman, but she gives him some bell hooks books to read.

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Fiction Friday: Tell Me What To Do

The place where her shoulder blades almost met was suddenly purple, and I tasted blood, slick and tangy, against my lipstick.

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Fiction Friday: Never Read The Comments

Alone in your apartment at three o’clock in the morning, you find yourself agreeing: you are a stupid bitch; you can’t write worth shit.

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Fiction Friday: The Motherhood Gig

She had left him crying in his crib where she’d thrown him, a punishment for needing her more than she could stand.

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Amalie Howard: Author

fantasy scribe. globe-trotter. advocate for diversity in publishing.

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Fiction Friday: Grass

Years from now, it’ll still be growing fast and long, the way it grows in summer even when there’s been no rain.

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Fragmented Instructions For Half-formed Girls

Let’s say, hypothetically, that there are people on this earth who are currently saner than you.

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