October 14, 2018

Carve Magazine

Fall 2018

Home As Found by Frank M. Meola

October 14, 2018

Carve Magazine

Fall 2018

The letter came at a time in Lea’s life when she felt particularly disconnected from things.

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

Arrangements by Charles Watts

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

To her, the man standing in the center of her flower shop resembled a brightly painted piñata.

October 15, 2015

Carve Magazine

Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

Kudzu by Andrea Bobotis

October 15, 2015

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Fall 2015, Raymond Carver Contest

She could barely make him out. He—she was certain the figure was a he—was a fleck, a disturbance on the horizon, and—this was another certainty—he was coming her way.

July 15, 2014

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Summer 2014

F-Man by Colette Sartor

July 15, 2014

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Summer 2014

That voice. Gravelly, loud, insistent. “Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!” yelled over and over outside Mila’s building, six-thirty sharp, mornings and evenings.

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

Driftwood by Morgan Thomas

April 15, 2014

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Spring 2014

The first time I saw the Daijli, he’d come into Uncle Lou’s shop looking for something hermosa to hold his vino de guava.

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

Philip's Experiences in Abnormal Psychology by Zachary Davis

December 15, 2013

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Winter 2013

Philip's Experiences in Abnormal Psychology by Zachary Davis

When I was a boy, firmly enveloped in those delightful pubescent years of changing voice and...

June 15, 2013

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Summer 2013

Human Voices Drown Us by Sandra Hunter

June 15, 2013

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Summer 2013

I want to do this. I keep telling the body we want this; this is it. But the body has other ideas.

June 15, 2012

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Summer 2012

Carnival by Scott Atkinson*

June 15, 2012

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Summer 2012

I thought I’d noticed her for the reasons you notice most poor children, particularly the t-shirt.

March 15, 2012

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Spring 2012

The Exhausted Pose by Jeremy Garrett

March 15, 2012

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Spring 2012

Alex turned down the volume of the Christian radio station.

December 15, 2011

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Winter 2011

Word Booth by Michael Landau

December 15, 2011

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Winter 2011

In the center of town was a square, and in the center of the square was a huge green lawn, and in the center of the lawn was a booth.

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

Stalled Symphony by Liesl Wilke

September 15, 2011

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Fall 2011, Raymond Carver Contest

The women in the Hearthstone Mall bathroom are not unlike horses at the gate, competing in a race they don’t understand, didn’t sign up for, won’t admit exists.

December 15, 2008

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Winter 2008

Horses by Stacy Elaine Dacheux

December 15, 2008

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Winter 2008

"They measure horses in hands. We measure ourselves in feet.” The Actor told me that the first time we met...

December 15, 2008

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Winter 2008

The Candy House of Roscoe, New York by Meagan Cass

December 15, 2008

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Winter 2008

The Candy House of Roscoe, New York by Meagan Cass

They woke in the night, in their childhood homes, with a strange, mawkish hunger, a sprain in the chest, a clench of the gut, a small, dull-toothed animal stirring.

September 15, 2008

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Fall 2008, Raymond Carver Contest

Mourning the Departed by L. Annette Binder

September 15, 2008

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Fall 2008, Raymond Carver Contest

Mourning the Departed by L. Annette Binder

Filipina ladies made the best funeral dishes.

December 15, 2007

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Winter 2007, Raymond Carver Contest

Different Than Any Day So Far by Marc Phillips

December 15, 2007

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Winter 2007, Raymond Carver Contest

Different Than Any Day So Far by Marc Phillips

Sometimes, I’ll put down the window as I drive to the shops and force as much wind into me as I can, until it burns my nose and puffs out my cheeks like I have a mouthful of marbles.

June 15, 2007

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Summer 2007

Turning the Bones by Marcy Campbell

June 15, 2007

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Summer 2007

Jillian and I are sitting on the hard-packed earth in front of a large fire, the flames illuminating the faces of the others in the circle.