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Storychord published a total of 150 multimedia issues -- each featuring a piece of short fiction, paired with visual art and a one-song soundtrack -- from March 2010 through October 2017. As of N...

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Issue #150 Guest Editor JOY BAGLIO is founder and director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop in western Mass., which offers one-day and multi-week workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry...

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Photograph by Elisabeth Fuchsia GIGI AND LUANN ​b​y Samuel Cole Before this round of sobriety, I was seriously contemplating how to snort my mother’s cellulite, figuring we’d both ben...

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Issue #148 Guest Editor MORGAN PILE previously published fiction in Storychord Issue #63 . She received her MFA in Fiction from the New School and lives in Brooklyn, where she founded WriteBrook...

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Art by Alexis Wheeler MY LIFE NOW ​b​y Lindsey Baker The restaurant was like this: rain or sun, we opened every day at 11 a.m. and closed at 11 p.m. I was there most mornings at ten with ...

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Issue #146 Guest Editor BENJAMIN WOODARD previously appeared in Storychord's Issue #116 . His recent fiction has appeared in Hobart, Corium Magazine, New South, and other literary journals. He i...

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Illustration by Andrea Sparacio TO KNOW, AT LEAST ​b​y Janet Frishberg They sat in a therapist’s office on opposite ends of a pale green couch, and the therapist asked Mina, “What wou...

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Art by Tracy Kerdman LOOKING FOR LOVE ​b​y ​​George Smith 1: AN IMAGINED INTRODUCTION “Hi. Sorry. I don’t want to bother you, but I’ve seen you around a lot, and I guess I fee...

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Art by Derek Bowman WAITRESS by Joe Worthen The waitress is on a hard couch with the SEO expert, and it’s late and something is burning. The waitress has a braid that has been eroded almost...

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Storychord.com takes a quick break from posting this week for a formal reading period. Want your work featured in an upcoming Summer issue? This reading period presents a perfect opportunity ...

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Photograph by Helena Kvarnström THE REMAKING OF LILLIAN by Rona Simmons Lillian packed everything she owned into the smaller of two suitcases stashed in the back of the closet she shared wit...

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Art by Hannah Richards HEAVY DOES IT by Sharla Yates We were seventeen. These guys—at least twenty-five. The shorter had a shaved head and wore jeans tucked into his Doc Martens. Introduced...

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Painting by Tracy Kerdman A SELFISH INVENTION by ​Donald Edem Quist DaYana drops the butt of her cigarette into a dingy embankment of snow lining the cracked sidewalk leading to her residen...

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Illustration by Vrinda Zaveri THE CASE OF THE ALBINO GORILLA by ​Caralyn Davis​ Sena is a one-woman production line. She scoops mayonnaise out of a jar with two fingers curved into a make...

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Illustration by Corey Pandolph HABITS by ​Lisa Gordon​ I woke up to goblins in my backyard. At first, obviously, I thought I was dreaming. So I went back to sleep, and when I woke up agai...

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Art by Scott Michael Ackerman THE GOPHER IN RAE’S CHEST​ by ​Beth Gilstrap​ Rae took care of all her husband’s people. His parents and great uncle all moved in when their house had ...

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Art by Aliene de Souza Howell THE REWARD COMES NEXT by Wynne Hungerford Something’s going on in the shimmering green country––by invitation only. What: A large (but not fat) Englishm...

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Issue #135 Guest Editor SARA RAUCH's prose has appeared in Split Lip, Hobart, Gravel, So to Speak, Luna Luna, and more. Her debut story collection, WHAT SHINES FROM IT, is forthcoming in 2018 fr...

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In these last three weeks of 2016, Storychord.com takes a break from posting new issues to take stock of this past year's offerings and prepare exciting new ones for the site's 7th(!) year of ...

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Issue #134 Guest Editor JESSICA MARIA JOHNSON's writing previously appeared in Storychord Issue #101 . She works and writes in Los Angeles. She was born in Panama, but doesn't have a hometown. S...

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Illustration by L.K. James REPOTTED by Jennifer Ahlquist I found my brother again at the garden center. I was sure I’d imagined his voice, just over my shoulder in line for the register. He...

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Illustration by Devyn Park THERE IS NO ARTHUR by Eva Konstantopoulos The sounds of the market burst in Frank's ears as he navigated through the stalls. He held his phone tightly in his hand, ...

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Illustration by Andrea Nakhla FRANCIS FOREVER by Nada Alic Sleep had forgotten me. Each night, I laid on my back waiting for it to come, but it would not come. I would say things like “I’...

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Illustration by Marni Manning BOSS MAN by Alice Kaltman There are no olives in the pantry and I distinctly remember buying some organic pimento-stuffed ones at Whole Foods yesterday. Or ma...

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Issue #129 Guest Editor JANE LIDDLE's writing previously appeared in Storychord Issue #89 . She is a friend to birds and lives in the Hudson Valley. Her short-story collection Murder was publis...

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