Prayer Grant Faulkner __________ If you’ve ever tried to find a lost dog and failed, you know the meaning of life. __________ Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of 100 Word Story, the co-host of the Write-minded podcast, and an Executive Producer on the upcoming TV show, America’s Next Great Author. He recently published The Art…
Read MoreMoo Speaks Robert Hamblin __________ There used to be three of us, but one left and didn’t come back. Now there are just we two. I miss her, I know he does. I can tell when he sits quietly on the couch where they often sat together. He just sits…
Read MoreThe Bigger the Cage the Larger the Lizard Will Get Tiff Holland __________ 1. She comes home to find the cop running his new jean jacket through the gravel and oil in the driveway. He is trying to make it look weathered. He has already sewn Harley Davidson patches on…
Read MoreThe Hologram of the Cat Meg Pokrass __________ Today, Muffin barks at the front door for an hour. She nips at our ankles, though not in a painful way. Not in a way that means, ANIMAL ALERT. What is it, girl? we say. Maybe it’s the hologram of the cat,…
Read MoreSeconds Nicole Monoghan __________ Gramps would narrate what he thought the dog was thinking based on her facial expressions and body language. She sat tall on a loveseat, her long face blank. “I’m over this,” Gramps flatly declared, as the voice of Ruby’s thoughts. I laughed. Ruby got up in…
Read MoreHowling at Osito Dawn Sperber __________ When I howl like a wolf, Osito sits before me like an attentive philosophy student. I think I gain a lot of clout in his eyes. He barks back, then rounds out his vowels like mine, and he gets so excited when he gets…
Read MoreLetter from the Editor Vallie Lynn Watson __________ This two-part issue was a bear (animal pun intended), and wouldn’t be possible without contest judge Ken Foster and Boudin‘s managing editor, Abbie Skinner. Abbie read all contest entries, blind, selected both the top ten, and then the top five, which we sent…
Read MoreAll Music: Espressivo March ’24 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Managing Editor: Abbie Skinner Guest Editor: Karris Rae Assistant Editors: Aiman Tariq, Taryn White, Meilyn Woods Editorial Assistants: Mia Bonds, Alexandria Knight Shawnda McCollum, Rhythm Section, inspired by “Sound of Silence” by Disturbed Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson…
Read MoreCemetery One Nighter Paul Corman-Roberts __________ It isn’t the name she told you, the name that isn’t her real name but the name they told your friend, heartbroken back in the pizza joint you hit up where you first squeezed her thigh under the table out of your friend’s sight, neither of you knowing she was death, happy to clasp your fingers…
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