Tag: NAU
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Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear
Amateur Icarus by Marcus Goodyear The moon is a glowing white ear, passing between gingerbread houses where wasps build their paper hexes. You are not here so it can’t be changing for us, this celestial cochlea and canal trained at the earth teaching me to listen when your phone rings and rings its robotic […]
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Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer
Volunteer Opportunity by Liz Drayer We’re so thrilled you’ve offered to donate your time to our cause and know how you value the privilege to serve The police background check is just part of the process please visit your neighborhood sheriff who’ll make sure you’re felony free and that “sexual predator” isn’t a suffix attached to […]
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Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz
Battery Life by Daniel Schwartz “Much we have to fear, big-mouth beside me!” —Osip Mandelstam This could be any era, and by any I mean none of them swept under the loss that was our decade we remember the sky’s oldest quotation marks and the weeks of holding our breath to keep other people from […]
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Night Noise by Emma Moser
Night Noise by Emma Moser The pattern of your breathing changes, and that is how I know we both heard it, that we are both stirring from a different darkness than the one which embraced us, hours ago, as we embraced, fading into sleep, and that the velvet of conversing breaths has been violated by something […]
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Featured Artist: Dave Petraglia
The July 2015 featured artist of the month is Dave Petraglia. A Best Small Fictions 2015 Winner, Dave’s writing and art has appeared in numerous literary magazines and journals. His blog is at davepetraglia.com. If you’re interested in submitting artwork to Thin Air Magazine to be featured on this website, email Angele’ at angele [dot] anderfuren @ […]
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Flight 2418 by Paul Bergstraesser
Flight 2418 By Paul Bergstraesser “Sir?” Was she talking to him? Who knew. He kept his eyes closed. “Sir.” Yeah, it was him. He took a deep breath and looked at the flight attendant. Her face was artificial-nice from corporate training but underneath he read sourness and disgust. Wasn’t the first time somebody had been repulsed by […]
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An Interview with Nina de Gramont
By Christine Davis Tell us a little bit about The Boy I Love, which came out Sep. 2nd. It’s a novel for teens about prejudice, secrets, and friendship. I structured it around a situation that feels familiar at first – a love triangle – but tried to take it in new and different directions than […]
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BIRD BY DESERT-LIGHT by Chelsea Biondolillo
BY CHELSEA BIONDOLILLO …It can’t store enough fuel to last the night and hoist it from its well of dreams to first light trembling on wet fuchsia, nor break the hard promise life always keeps. A lot of hummingbirds die in their sleep. —Diane Ackerman, Dark Night of the Hummingbird Creeping […]
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PRESENCE by Bill Vernon
BY BILL VERNON I’m not even fishing, just standing on the bank of the Little Miami River, and the flowing seems to pour through me. It’s as if the future lies downstream and all I have to do is look there to see it. My eyes are like spools from which the lines of […]
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FROM “1930-1963-1984” by Ginger Ko
BY GINGER KO American-born but always remembered: woman and not white when I put jade against my body it’s suffocating ***
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