Featured Short: 'Lee'
"...and he shrugged staring at the moon and said Everyone's trans..."
[Jackie Sabbagh]
Featured Short: 'Self-Portrait with Depression Glass'
"By next June, this will feel like a long time ago, I thought..."
[Thomas Heise]
Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Thomas Heise.
Featured Short: 'Let Us Pray'
"I am headlong out of love..."
[Frances Orrok]
Featured: TWO MICROS
"For six hundred days I couldn't sleep..."
[Steve Gergley]
Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Steve Gergley.
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]
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