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Butterflies Behind Glass

April 25, 2017 by Kyle Labe

“We are returning from church when the biplane crashes in our back lawn.”

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Big Gold Hoops

March 7, 2017 by Kyle Labe

Jailyn pierced Winnie’s ears behind her house. She was in middle school, three grades up, and worked at the mall doing this, so Winnie trusted her. They sat on the cement outside Jailyn’s screen door. It was the door you had to force open, because it always jammed. And when it ran off the track, Jailyn’s mother would holler from the kitchen. Winnie didn’t mind this, though, because she liked how Jailyn’s mom was cheery and always had the house […]

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The Day the Past Died

February 8, 2017 by Kyle Labe

Published by Teen Ink Magazine. Jefferson Harper said his first harsh words to his mother when she began to tear down the photographs of his father from the walls. The newly widowed Bailey Harper insisted her late husband’s eyes followed her in the pictures when she crossed the room, and she was sick of the dead looming around when he did that enough alive. When Jefferson disinterred the frames from a cardboard box in the attic, he replaced all the […]

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Jesus On the Shore

December 12, 2016 by Kyle Labe

Mama once told me before she died that my blonde hair makes the sun go wild with envy. Said I came out of the womb with a full mane flowing out behind me, and if I ever get lost, just to take off my hat or headscarf and somebody’ll come magnetized over to it. When I was younger, she said I had too much of a body for a girl-child. Too curvy like the sea waves, infinite and easy to […]

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All Things Bad and Good

November 4, 2016 by Kyle Labe

“Sometimes it’s best not to examine someone’s intentions, and just take them for the asshole they really are.”

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