Santa cruz

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Fiction

The pair was stacked. Two hollow accordions sitting deflated, squat, and patient on the floor.

by John McAlester

Santa cruz — It was predawn and bluish outside when my phone started to vibrate beneath my pillow. It was cold and fresh and dark and I had to get my clothes on, including my belt, without waking anyone and get down all of those goddam wet wooden stairs and then walk my motorcycle far enough away from the house and massage it back to life. When I did the beast would probably wake up every one of the wholesome...

Prose

Someone asked me, why don't you defend yourself?

by Kelly Vivace

Santa cruz — Someone asked me, why don’t you defend yourself? I wondered what I have to defend. Fighting back is not grace. Shielding invokes participation into a war. What is defense? If I utter one word or thoug...

Everything starts here. All the beauty and the wretched stumbling. Yet there is nothing that lets love shine more brilliantly than the vulnerability of being alive.

by Kelly Vivace

Santa cruz — Everything starts here. All the beauty and the wretched stumbling. Yet there is nothing that lets love shine more brilliantly than the vulnerability of being alive. One more step into the unknown. You...

Even your Fairy God Mother can get hijacked by multiple streams of consciousness and quantum possibilities.

by Kelly Vivace

Santa cruz — I once had a friend who I cared very much about. She was my “Fairy God Mother” and “Once upon a time…” was a story she shared with me about a man I was creating a life with. It was a beautiful tale ...

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