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LAURA BESLEY: Today is Like Every Day

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Wake, feed, burp, change.

She sleeps again, small breaths warming my neck.

Wake, feed, burp, change.

She cries; loud and angry wails.

Wake, feed, burp, change.

We go out, finally, and I’m always surprised that the world carries on, as if to mock the broken record of our banal existence.

Laura Besley writes short fiction in the precious moments that her children are asleep. Her fiction has appeared online, in print and in various anthologies. She tweets at @laurabesley.

MIRANDA THOMASON: Crazy

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“Do you feel like you are crazy?” she said with a brief pause.

When all she got was a look, she continued, “Because I do. All these people around me talk about things no one cares about. They go from work to home and back again. How is that living?”

Miranda Thomason lives at the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountains. After completing the novel On the Mercy of the World, Miranda is writing short stories.