§ 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.




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