She tears up. It’s not real; we all fake cry even when it’s to cover up for the real crying, but that won’t matter in school on Monday.

“Starfish Girls.” Atticus Review 1st prize Contest Winner.

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“HOW TO MANSPLAIN POLITICS ON SOCIAL MEDIA BASED ON YOUR POLITICAL PARTY.” McSweeney’s.

We took him to the doctor who referred us to a neurologist, a psychologist, back to the neurologist, an herbalist, a Tibetan monk, and that’s how we came to the traveling mystic Madam Leore, a fraying old waif holed up in a caravan by the night shore.

“Little Ash Boy.” Whiskey Island.

In the forest, Auntie Crow calls her children back to her with a simple hand wave, and they pour onto that gray porch in the sunshine woods in the middle of nowhere.

“Auntie Crow’s Children.” Grimoire Magazine.