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Bulb Culture Collective
Feb 14, 20231 min read
The Water by Francesca Leader
“Come with me,” she said. Her eyes were like raindrops on two fresh green leaves. “Where?” “Down there.” She smiled, pointing her small,...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Feb 7, 20234 min read
Cock Block by Rachel Lloyd
Content Warnings: sexual content, oppression, self-harm, descriptions of blood, death, animal death, and language In the woods behind the...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jan 27, 20234 min read
Patina by Sarah Little
The streets are warm, sunny, with less of the ozone-free heat that I’m so used to from my New Zealand hometown. They’re steep, here in...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Jan 13, 20233 min read
The Size Allowance of One's Grief by Jasmine Sawers
On day thirty-seven of shelter-in-place, you moved in upstairs and the sobbing began. You’ll learn soon: the building delivers sound like...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 30, 20224 min read
The Short Life of Bessie Taylor by Amy Barnes
I said goodbye to Bessie the summer I turned twelve. It was a slow death made worse by Alabama heat that lingered at night, bed sheets...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 27, 20223 min read
Mall Massage by John Timm
`Twenty minutes?” Sara needs to run into Macy’s for something or other in the women’s department. My chance to get a quick chair...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 25, 20224 min read
Free of Christmas by Mike Hickman
This was the Friday Malcolm got to put Christmas away for another year. Or, to be more exact, to put school Christmas away. A whole month...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 20, 20222 min read
Spin Cycle by Jen McConnell
When the heat subsided, the frogs rained down like a bill come due. Alone in the Aqua-Mat, Audrey watched the aggressive green downpour,...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Dec 6, 20224 min read
No Corners by A. Joseph Black
My father Eddie told a story once...actually, he told many stories, and most of them more than once, but he knew the true storyteller's...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Nov 1, 20224 min read
Pie by Wiebo Grobler
Anne sat at the kitchen table and absently stared out the window while she chewed on her cheek. Her left hand was inside her cardigan...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Oct 28, 20223 min read
When It Rains by Mugdhaa Ranade
Outside, the rain falls softly, but relentlessly, icy needles colliding and melting against the glass window. Inside, the rumpled bed...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Oct 14, 20224 min read
Now As It Is Forever by Mark Finnemore
Joe gazed across at the crippled swing-bridge in the middle of the river. Diving from that bridge was the only thing he’d ever...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Oct 4, 20224 min read
Have a Little Farmhouse in your Soul by Mike Hickman
The fingers paused in their rhythmic swaying. Tom’s eyes, aching from the repetitive tick- tock movement, fixed as best as they could on...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Sep 20, 20224 min read
Searching for a Place to Sell Animal Bones I Found Inside Animals by Samuel Milligan
I have a few plastic buckets of bones and bleach and Dawn tucked tidily in the backseat and nothing to do on a Saturday afternoon, so I...
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Bulb Culture Collective
Sep 13, 20224 min read
The Safe Place by Stephanie Parent
You know the story. It might feel a little old-fashioned, nowadays, but it used to be quite popular. It used to be everywhere, if you...
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