Among Other Places

Sean Coventry is the author of short story collections Things I Heard on the Way to Dying (Universality Press, 2011) and Love Is What You Say When You Run Out of Words (Smiling Hedge Press, 2016). He is also the author of the collection of poems and essays titled This Is Where Memories Began (Semper…

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Staying In

Anything can happen outside. I haven’t left my home in nearly thirteen years, for all intents and purposes. From my backdoor, the trash and recycling carts are about twenty yards away, where I venture once a week or so. I am not a hoarder. But my groceries are delivered; all my clothing and possessions are…

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The Question

Now I will tell you the story of a priceless marriage proposal … Between older brother and best friend, standing across from a group of women in blue, he held left wrist in right palm, as he always did when cocksure. Beneath the bowtie his vest produced a white cone that interrupted, along with his…

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Another Way to Live

A magazine is open on an end table which bisects a row of uncomfortable black chairs lined against a wall, opposite the front desk, which is white, the color of cleanliness, and juts very slightly into the space between it and the two rows of seats that set back to back in the room’s center.…

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Dorothea

Dear, darling Dorothea, the world deserves no less than truth, a transparent portrait of our relationship, though I doubt its essence will be apprehended by most. Not amid today’s din of cynicism will many hear nor among the cloudbursts of vapid images will they see. In spite of this, I shall try. You merit no…

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One-Year Reunion

Weeks beforehand he could only think of the last time he had seen her, Noelle—luggage in tow, shouldering a door, and refusing (he assured myself) herself a glance backwards. It was the most predictable, and cheerless, moment of their relationship but, as often happens, also the most ineradicable. In their parting were the sinews of…

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