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VA WISWELL: Lovely Greece

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Greece, together, like we’d planned. Bathing beneath a glassy sky. Wading in a sea the perfect temperature for lucid dreaming.

On the California tarmac, your profile is a sun-streaked mirage filling the airplane window. I wave goodbye to a tomorrow only I can see.

Greece, though, was so very lovely.

VA lives outside Seattle, WA, with her human and animal family. Her work has appeared in The Lake, 34th Parallel Magazine, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Five on the Fifth, Lumina Journal, Panoplyzine Magazine as the Editors’ Poem of Choice, The Basilisk Tree, and Figwort. She has work forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Courtship of The Winds, and Remington Review, along with a poetry collection through Kelsay Books.

SARAH NASSAR: Crush

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He’s tall, a full head taller than I am. And he’s handsome. I really like his laugh. For someone who doesn’t talk much, it’s surprisingly loud.

Today, I saw him talking to someone as I sat far away. With every touch, my heart broke. With every smile, my chest tightened.

Sarah Nassar is an English Literature student living and writing in Egypt.

BOB THURBER: Season Greetings And Untimely Departures

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Every Christmas has unique vibrations.

2010 was tremulous.

Our grandchildren were three and four. They didn’t know their mother was dead.

I imagine they held to the hope she’d surprise them with a last-minute appearance.

There was more chance a fat man in a sleigh would land on the roof.

Bob Thurber is the author of “Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel” and two collections of stories. A celebrated master of Flash and Micro Fiction, his work has appeared in 60 anthologies, received dozens of awards, and been used in schools and colleges throughout the world. He resides in Massachusetts where, though legally blind, he continues to write every day. Visit his website at BobThurber.net.