Fiction

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It’s the End, Isn’t It?

By Hannah MacKey

You think about the time your fingertips turned blue after standing in the cold waiting for them. It was September, but winter approached faster than anyone had expected. You were nervous because this was your first anything. You were hoping for first love.

Like Pulling Teeth

By Calli DeSerio

It happens while I’m using the scaler and the mirror, chunks of food coming out from behind this kid’s braces. I think I meant to ask him where he was going to school and what year he was in as I shoved the tools further into his mouth, but instead it just hits me. The teeth.