§ WED: 11-20-24

Featured Short:   'Let's Go Holoholo'
"stop daydreaming and mend the damn fishing net..."
[Melissa Llanes Brownlee]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard (as comic!) from Melissa Llanes Brownlee.




Featured Short:   'United as Cousins in Death'
"My exes gather around, hold me..."
[Keri Miller]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Keri Miller.




Featured Short:   'What Will You Wear'
"You've had trouble having thoughts lately..."
[Rebecca Bernard]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Rebecca Bernard.




Featured Short:   'The Stick Bugs'
"I learn the older kid is named Skyler."
[Ian Crutcher Castillo]



Featured Short:   'Seventeen'
"An uncool thing to say, but it's true."
[Natalie Warther]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Natalie Warther.




Featured Short:   'The Lamp'
"My roommate said I needed accent lighting..."
[Reza Jabrani]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Reza Jabrani.




Featured Short:   'Matted and Mangled'
"Your hair becomes knotted when you get sad..."
[Bailey Gaylin Moore]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Bailey Gaylin Moore.




Featured:   THREE MICROS
"She stops and gathers the wind in her mouth..."
[Jeff Friedman]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Jeff Friedman.




Featured Short:   'Safety Pins'
"I sat with the mathematicians again..."
[Karen Laws]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Karen Laws.




Featured:   TWO STORIES
"Does she ever come visit? I asked."
[Sophie Hoss]



Featured Micro:   'Cure'
"When my hair thinned, when my face grew paler..."
[Meg Pokrass]



Featured Short:   'Resuscitate'
"He started on the arid flats bordering the Flinders Ranges..."
[Glenn Orgias]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Glenn Orgias.




Featured Short:   'In This World, They're Married'
"James thinks the glass house is impractical..."
[Ashlynn Perez]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Ashlynn Perez.




Featured Short:   'A Knock at the Door'
"Larry and Susan are sitting arms folded at opposite ends of the couch..."
[Stephanie Yu]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Stephanie Yu.




Featured Short:   'Reality'
"I watch a movie while my baby sleeps..."
[Deirdre Danklin]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Deirdre Danklin.




Featured Short:   'Lex Talionis'
"My giant hand snatched him from the hallway..."
[Maria Robinson]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Maria Robinson.




Featured Short:   'A Baker'
"So he watched their deliveries..."
[K.A. Polzin]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from K.A. Polzin.




Featured Short:   'Play Your Cards'
"The college had a penchant for nudity..."
[Jules Fitz Gerald]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Jules Fitz Gerald.




Featured Short:   'Lágrimas'
"I called the waiter over..."
[Peter Cherches]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Peter Cherches.




Featured Short:   'Basho: Champ of Haiku: Comes for Late Summertime Lunch'
"Annie reads the news."
[Joseph Young]


Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Joseph Young.




Featured Short:   'Three Billion Blue-Green Years'
"I wonder how other people mark their calendars."
[Erin Calabria]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Erin Calabria.




Featured Short:   'Headlines'
"I seldom returned home in those early years..."
[Ravi Mangla]



Featured:   THREE MICROS
"My friend says life is a sitcom..."
[Benjamin Davis]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Ben Davis.




Featured Short:   'Lincoln Mercury'
"I could see everything from my spot on that backseat..."
[Christine Kendall]



Featured Short:   'Defpotec'
"She's designing a new kind of contact lens..."
[Parth Shah]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Parth Shah.




Featured Short:   'The Mother Infestation'
"They came from every corner of the house..."
[Dara Yen Elerath]



Featured Short:   'At the Beach'
"Sometimes friendship is like a rare bird..."
[Svetlana Turetskaya]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Svetla Turetskaya.




Featured Short:   'Teacher with a Face Tattoo'
"Because it makes me feel like a part of the human family."
[Z.H. Gill]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Zack Gill.




Featured:   THREE MICROS ('On Not Kissing')
"I could have asked what was happening."
[Stephen D. Gibson]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Stephen D. Gibson.




Featured Short:   'I'm in Love with the Cave Man'
"He walked into the Circle K..."
[Epiphany Ferrell]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Epiphany Ferrell.




Featured Short:   'My Family Tree'
"Isn't that what heaven's for?"
[Brandon Forinash]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Brandon Forinash.




Featured Short:   'A Gentle Creature'
"'Your uncle has a lot of nightmares...'"
[Zhanar Irgebay]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Zhanar Irgebay.




Featured Short:   'The Three Times My Sister Buried the Dead'
"My sister didn't believe my parents' assurances."
[Suzanne C Martinez]


Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Suzanne Martinez.




Featured Short:   'God, Grant Me a Mercy Machine'
"Where were this child's parents?"
[Janelle Bassett]



Featured Short:   'We and Us'
"'What an asshole,' we say..."
[Will Musgrove]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Will Musgrove.




Featured Micro:   'Tengu'
"...she asked the tengu to pry me out and bury me..."
[Lucy Zhang]



Featured Short:   'The Wanting'
"I... try to explain how it is being a person."
[Steve Edwards]

CW: suicidal ideation
Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Steve Edwards.




Featured Short:   'Monty and Fletcher's Guide to Drawing Ghosts'
"I didn't even cough when I inhaled..."
[Anna Mebel]


Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Anna Mebel.




Featured Short:   'Dogs Ride in Self-Driving Cars'
"I've named him Thor."
[Dominica Phetteplace]



Featured Short:   'When the Dog Died'
"We loved him, you see."
[Leone Brander]



Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Leone Brander.




Featured Short:   'Figment'
"She was obsessed with ephemerality..."
[Patrick Dundon]



Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Patrick Dundon.




Featured Short:   'Dusk'
"I watched her leave dandelions in the mailbox..."
[Andrew Siegrist]



Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Andrew Siegrist.




Featured:   Solstice Playlist (Winter)
[J. Aguilar, C. Alberta, S. Austin, R. Bernard, P. Foran, S.K. Murayama, A. Peterson, M. Pokrass, H. Smothers, E. Scot Tryon, N. Warther, and L. Zhang]



CHEZ WIGLEAF







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