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Silhouette of a city skyline

Tattered Shoes

by Sarah Toney (This story contains suicide.) The air was thin and icy. Breathing it in felt like swallowing shattered glass. The city was beautiful from this height and the boy wanted to reach out and feel the warmth of the setting sun. The heaviness in his chest felt a…

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Old red telephone

Dead Man’s Embers

by Moe Hashemi (This story contains suicide.)           To bring the dead to life           Is no great magic.           Few are wholly dead:           Blow on a dead man’s embers           And a live flame will start.                     —Robert Graves, “To Bring the Dead to Life”   “How are you feeling,” he says. No hellos…

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