Publication: Vol. 1 Brooklyn
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Mommy’s Business by Bob Johnson
A woman clips a cyclist with her car on a country road. Johnson captures the mother’s mounting anxiety so well I was holding my breath at one point. Kat groaned and slapped the mirror back into place, and—as if by doing so, she’d activated a mechanical sequence—there came a soft splintering, a flash of yellow…
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Leaving Kit Lacy by David Summerfield
The narrator of Summerfield’s story has been hopelessly in love with Kit Lacy for years, and finally decides to do something about it. The story is peppered with run-on-sentences that bring the narrator’s voice to life: It never occurred to me there was another way to act toward a woman, especially one so beautiful, ellipsoid…
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Girl Scout
A story about a first date that contains a ton of charm and a surprising amount of tension
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Inheriting It
A young guy goes home from NYC to rural, depressed Tennessee. Great setting and characters
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Camera Obscura
A young woman’s boyfriend takes her to a party full of his old friends. The host, Sam, is a girl, and it’s unclear if the boyfriend deliberately withheld that fact.