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Please Keep This To Yourself
Have I told you?
Sep 27 • 
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Box Turtle
Becca built the pen herself out of scrap lumber.
Sep 20 • 
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Good Guys - Bad Guys
Last I saw this place was through the steel mesh windows of a prison van, shackled and belly-chained.
Sep 13 • 
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Apocrypha
Suffer the little children
Sep 6 • 
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August 2025

Submission Guidelines
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Aug 30 • 
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On Drugs
I haven’t published in weeks. Not for lack of trying.
Aug 16 • 
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50 words on…
Short life. Few words. Still counts.
Aug 3 • 
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July 2025

You Don’t Say
The law is surprisingly clear on this.
Jul 19 • 
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Net Loss
The odds of making it to the NHL are roughly 0.16 percent. But I was never good at math
Jul 12 • 
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Résumé
I met Danny at a coffee shop on Woodward, the kind with swivel stools and Styrofoam cups.
Jul 5 • 
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June 2025

Terminal Velocity
Ready, set, grief.
Jun 28 • 
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Shadow Boxer
A study in damaged merchandise
Jun 21 • 
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