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Post Extraction

Post Extraction Juleigh Howard-Hobson __________ It’s not simply the matter of the tooth coming out. There’s the gap, the open gum, the hole where there used to be a wall of solid teeth. You’ll never eat food again the same way, there will always be the blank space that no…

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2.1.2.3

2.1.2.3 Isaac Ferber __________ A jar of teeth, now that’s nothing to smile at. Dentin is brown, you know? The old medical school used to be by the zoo. Now they’re beige apartments, and certainly someone lives in the former morgue. I bet their fridge stays cold. When I was…

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Karris Rae

Karris Rae Karris Rae is a fiction MFA/MA candidate at McNeese State University. She is also a fiction editor for The McNeese Review and managing editor of Boudin. Her chapbook, We Obedient Children, won the 2024 Etchings Press Chapbook Contest in prose. Her short work has recently appeared or is…

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Tooth Appointment

Tooth Appointment Ben Larned __________ You don’t remember your last visit to the dentist. It’s been two years, maybe three. All the way here your gums itch. The waiting room has a sickly hue, a chemical smell that reminds you of metal scraping and drills whirring. If it weren’t for…

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Eviction Notice from the Tooth Fairy & red is a spectrum

Eviction Notice from the Tooth Fairy & red is a spectrum Jaden Fong __________ EVICTION NOTICE FROM THE TOOTH FAIRY I fear that I have offended my teeth. They are as loose in my gums, bucking broncos in a gingivae stadium, but please, do not abduct them yet– these teeth…

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jesus lost his milk teeth & he looked so much like his father

jesus lost his milk teeth & he looked so much like his father Quinton Okoro __________ JESUS LOST HIS MILK TEETH all at once. he placed them, still warm, pulp still clinging to crown, into his mother’s hand. she bent over him, her palm flattened with expectation. these will make…

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Snappers/The Man on the Mattress

Snappers/The Man on the Mattress Robb T. White __________ “You’re probably wondering what’s going on, right?”  Asking yourself, ‘What happened’? ‘Where the hell am I?’ Can’t say I blame you,” he said, watching his eyes focus as he tried to turn his head one way and then the other. They…

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The Dentist, The Bootlegger

The Dentist, The Bootlegger Meghan Louise Wagner __________ The drops went the same each month. I kept my hair under my cap and let Julian do the talking. After the boss counted the crates, he’d crack into a random bottle to sample. He’d take a couple glugs, swish, then nod…

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The Death of Harold Cassidy

The Death of Harold Cassidy Colton Huelle __________ In the days following Harold Cassidy’s death, Joy’s Facebook feed was clogged with lengthy tributes to the late novelist and links to even lengthier blog posts about his contribution to American literature. Writers and critics of all stripes crawled out of the…

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Balloons

Balloons Joan Bauer __________ When Sarah dropped Lily off around noon, she said she was just going to a half-hour tennis lesson. I invited her to come back here for coffee afterward, and she said she would like that. But she never came back.              Outside, our two girls were…

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