Top stories published by 1:1000 in 2015

1:1 — Kayla King

Welcome back to another edition of 1:1. I’m at Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa in New Hampshire, seething with envy as I wait…

One for One Thousand in 1:1000

Sep 21, 2015

When the Streetlights Came On

I used to be a bird.

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Apr 1, 2015

The Shulamite

Nessa was thirteen years old when she was baptized by her handsome youth pastor in a country club swimming pool. That afternoon, she…

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Oct 5, 2015

Belisama

Jack walks back in the trailer with a little box of gentle blue; larger than your usual eggs, richer too, he says. Says hen’s eggs are for any…

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Sep 30, 2015

Chicory

Puffs of breath, like wisps of dreams unspoken, float off Quinn’s bottom lip. He’s singing silent. Singing to himself like he always does — like…

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Apr 22, 2015

The Hand of Zeus

The universe is still on his ceiling.

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Aug 5, 2015

Calculations

I wait for you to say something perfect. Niri finishes stringing the lanterns around the patio. All those colored paper shells look…

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May 20, 2015

Hanged Man

Continued from Three of Swords

I try to hold the sun inside the same way your mother did, like a talisman. I see…

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Sep 16, 2015

Rust

Maybe we are too young and the world is trying to remind us of that.

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Jun 29, 2015

Comfort

Dallas imagines that she can still smell the couch’s aroma of cigarette smoke and burnt bacon as she stands at the edge of the porch, just out…

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