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Category Archive: The Fiction Issue

Oranges by Melissa Gutierrez

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There’s not a color the sky doesn’t turn in the fall evening, if you watch long enough. Paul […]

Chicago Literati October 1, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

A Small Act Of Rebellion by Kendra Liedle

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It’s lonely behind the black velvet curtain. Tammy shifted her weight and pointed the toes of her right […]

Chicago Literati October 1, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

Shoreline, Cold and Distant by Brandon Taylor

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Before Magnus learned that pain must always accompany beauty, his music was wild, random, and full of noise. […]

Chicago Literati October 1, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

Pee Wee by Laura Stewart

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“I’m going to tell you the truth about girls,” said Petie McKay, one sweltering afternoon in September after […]

Chicago Literati October 1, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

Before Then Now by Heather McClean

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Before Then Now When I get really hungry—not the all-the-time uncomfortable grumbling, but that clawing, scraping emptiness that […]

Chicago Literati September 30, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

At The Beach by Anna Jordan

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“Tomorrow we should go down there,” she said. It was only two blocks from the house, and they […]

Chicago Literati September 29, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

Manhunt by Conrad Moher

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I told the policeman we hid near the basement toilet. The other Manhunt team wouldn’t find us because […]

Chicago Literati September 28, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

The Sea is a Beautiful Place by Gen Del Raye

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What could be more beautiful than the shafts of light that reach into the water at certain times […]

Chicago Literati September 28, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

Umbra by Matthew Vasiliauskas

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I created him because I was bored. Back then I felt boredom was the essential catalyst for inspiration, […]

Chicago Literati September 22, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

Tilt by Nick Rossi

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Mike visualizes his little girl being told by her mother why Dad is jobless and blacklisted, his face in the paper or on the internet under the headline “ELEM. TEACHER ENDANGERS STUDENTS, FIRED.”

Chicago Literati September 21, 2015 Feature Issues, Fiction, The Fiction Issue

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