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Scrap: Salvaging a Family (eBook)

The hybrid flash memoir Scrap: Salvaging a Family explores the stain of childhood fear and anxiety on the adult spirit and the experience of reconciling with an aging or dying parent. A daughter has grown up in a household with an angry and abusive father. He keeps the secret of his biological father’s identity from his daughter for decades. When the elderly man faces his mortality, he finally names his father. The more the daughter learns about her father’s early life and origins, the more she understands him which leads to forgiveness for the past.

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Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them (eBook)

Virtuoso scream queens. Cuckholding cockroaches. Scorned mermaids. Orphaned trapeze artists. Young love. True love. Secret love. Consuming love. Sex, strippers, Stoli, and a severed human hand. Sweet Nothings Are a Diary If You Know How to Read Them is a libidinous collection of 22 micros and flashes to light your fire and break your heart.

Keith J. Powell (he/him) is co-founder and managing editor of Your Impossible Voice. His writing has appeared in Best Microfiction 2023, Best Microfiction 2024, and elsewhere. Find more at keithjpowell.com.

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The Fair Day (eBook)

 There’s something different about this county fair: a certain rush in the air each time you ride a ride, a certain sizzle in your blood. After a teenager nicknamed Electricity had her innocence stolen from her ten years ago at the county fair, she returns prepared to steal it back—not realizing all the forces at play, then and now, each chasing after innocence and power.

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The Trouble with Sweetheartz (eBook)

If it were anyone else calling, Jamie would not have heard the phone ring. But it’s Micah, his ex-girlfriend, whom he hasn’t spoken to in six months, and things did not end well between them. She needs a ride home from Florida, almost ten hours away from their hometown. Jamie would like to hang up the phone, roll over, and pretend her call was a dream, but for some reason, one he is unable to identify, he can’t go back to sleep. That is the problem, and his way of solving it—perhaps the only way to confront his past and his feelings and who he has become—is to go after her. On a rollicking midnight ride from small-town Tennessee to Daytona Beach and back, Jamie turns over his relationship with Micah, with his friends, and even God, as he tries to do the right thing and save her. One last time.

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There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring (eBook)

In a basement lab, a technician and a corporate analyst operate a device that views other universes. Each attempt reveals the same beige room, down to the molecule—no sign of change other than a faint smell of cumin. With little else to measure beyond their own growing connection, they attempt to extract fiscal value from the possibility that nothing could ever have been different.

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