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Fireside Magazine Issue 103, Summer 2022
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Grits, Goblins, and Good Times,
by WC Dunlap
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Recipe,
by Tina S. Zhu
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Bite,
by Emily Hope
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The Day I Became Poseidon,
by Leila Martin
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All the Boys in the Sea,
by Marie Croke
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Six Goats,
by Isabel Cañas
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Papa Legba Has Entered the Chat,
by DaVaun Sanders; illustrated by Manuel J. Iniesta
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The Czar of Smiles,
by J. L. Royce
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Like Stars Daring to Shine,
by Somto Ihezue
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The Tourist,
by Em Liu
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Taming the Land,
by Aaron Emmel
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Matrimonial Quest at Luna Prime and Other Existential Dread,
by Deka Omar
Fireside Magazine Issue 102, Spring 2022
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CONELRAD 1960 / COVID 2020,
by T. D. Walker
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A Guide to Exploring Abandoned Gold Mines,
by Calley Odum
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What's Left,
by Jarred Thompson
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As Though I Were A Little Sun,
by Grace Chan
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Clear Signal,
by Julian Stuart
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Component Parts of a Belated Apology,
by AnaMaria Curtis
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An Ōgama Tale in Seven Voices,
by Betsy Aoki
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XY,
by Lucy Zhang
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At the End of Purple Meadow Road,
by Marisca Pichette
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Consigned to Moonlight,
by Shaoni C. White; illustrated by Aurelijus Langvinis
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Certainty in Gold,
by Samara Auman
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AIs Who Make AIs Make the Best AIs!,
by Andrea Kriz
Fireside Magazine Issue 101, March 2022
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A Message From Her Feline Self, Unborn, to Her Cousin, Whose Ancestors Were Once Wolves,
by Jessica Cho; illustrated by Jessica McCottrell
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We Are the Thing That Lives on the Moon,
by Gillian Secord
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Give My Body to the Moths,
by Riley Neither
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The Stars Above Eos,
by M. Darusha Wehm
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Since He Came Back,
by Lindsay King-Miller
Fireside Magazine Issue 100, February 2022
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Mother Tongue,
by Atreyee Gupta
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The Book of the Blacksmiths,
by Martin Cahill
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Not a Basking Shark,
by Hesper Leveret
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Oversharing,
by R. J. Theodore; illustrated by Alexxander Dovelin
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Seen Small Through Glass,
by Premee Mohamed
Fireside Magazine Issue 99, January 2022
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My Body,
by J. S. Jordan
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The Night the River Meets the Sky,
by Lina Rather
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Song of the Balsa Wood Bird,
by Katherine Quevedo
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Sheer in the Sun, They Pass,
by Hester J. Rook; illustrated by Paul Kellam
Fireside Magazine Issue 98, December 2021
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Good People,
by Mari Ness
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Never a Gentle Master,
by Brittany N. Williams
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Ten Lessons for a Curse-Breaker,
by Ellen Meny
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Habeas Codex,
by Curtis C. Chen; illustrated by Trevor Fraley
Fireside Magazine Issue 97, November 2021
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In the Field Where Stories Meet,
by Virginia M. Mohlere
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Roar, Sweet Child, Roar,
by Sydnee Thompson
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Bluebeard's Wife,
by T. Kingfisher
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Godfather Death, in His Own Words,
by John Wiswell
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Small-Town Spirit,
by Frances Rowat; illustrated by Steffi Walthall
Fireside Magazine Issue 96, October 2021
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Not Quite What We're Looking for Right Now,
by Jana Bianchi
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Of Honey and Grave Dirt,
by Maiga Doocy
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The Fifth Horseman,
by Martin Cahill
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Congratulations, Clockholder!,
by R.L. Thull
Fireside Magazine Issue 95, September 2021
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Fear of a Stuntwoman,
by Abra Staffin-Wiebe
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The Empathy Lessons,
by Hal Y. Zhang
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The Magnitude of It All,
by Eleanor R. Wood
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