§ MON: 05-13-24
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]
Featured Short: 'Corn Tricks'
"I never won..."
[Abby Feden]
Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Abby Feden.
Featured Short: 'The Greatest of These'
"As if those two words explained everything."
[Nicole Baart]
Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Nicole Baart.
Featured Short: 'Bananaology'
"That wasn't even the worst thing."
[Kate McIntyre]
Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Kate McIntyre.
Featured Short: 'The Wrong Magic'
"And then she fashions a second, a twin."
[Frances Badgett]
Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Frances Badgett.
Featured Short: 'Bye Bye Baby'
"But two years is hardly any time at all."
[Natalie Warther]
Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Natalie Warther.
Featured Short: 'Message in a Bottle'
"I did not particularly like this knife block."
[Michelle Ross]
Featured Short: 'The Kidnapping'
"The best, Carl's just the best."
[Adam Peterson]
Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Adam Peterson.
Featured Short: 'Checkers'
"Six hours after she laid the traps, the first mouse started chirping..."
[Alexandria Juarez]
Featured Short: 'The Spiritualist'
"The two women were now quite alone."
[Emily Ruth Verona]
Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Emily Ruth Verona.
Featured: FOUR MICROS
"Keening is not the word..."
[Michael Bazzett]
Featured Short: 'The Reclamation Crew'
"Fire turns everything white."
[Travis Price]
Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Travis Price.
Featured Short: 'Salvation'
"I'm here because I got sent here."
[Aracelis González Asendorf]
Featured Short: 'Metaphor'
"Were we dying?"
[Elyse Durham]
Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Elyse Durham.
Featured Short: 'Wound'
"The field that remembers his name and time is far from here..."
[Roblin Meeks]
Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Roblin Meeks.
Featured: FOUR MICROS
"look at the squirrels making their lives at high altitudes."
[Blake Levario]
Dear Wigleaf
In the mail from Blake Levario.
Featured Short: 'Pinecone'
"Why did I have to make everything so difficult?"
[Christine Alexander]
Dear Wigleaf
We hear from Christine Alexander.
Featured Short: 'Avenue C'
"I sat in the drugstore across the street..."
[Judah Crow]
Dear Wigleaf
A postcard from Judah Crow.
CHEZ WIGLEAF
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