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Farting, medically known as flatulence, is a normal digestive process that happens when gas builds up in the intestines and is released through the rectum. Most people pass gas somewhere…

The air smelled of damp pavement, fresh bread from a nearby bakery, and the low hum of early buses. While vendors set up and commuters rushed past, a young woman…

The security guard was about to throw him out, thinking the poverty covering his body was a stain in front of the wealthy customers. But at that exact moment, the…

The monitors were still beeping when my boss told me to “separate work from your private life,” and the words seemed to dissolve into the sterile air of the hospital…

My name is Opal. I am twenty-seven years old, and three weeks ago, I watched my own mother cry in a courtroom. Not because she was sorry for what happened…

The hospital room smelled of antiseptic and the faint, coppery tang of birth. I lay against the stiff white pillows, my body a map of aches and exhaustion. It had…

The snow didn’t fall on Blackwood Ridge; it assaulted it. The wind howled through the skeletal trees like a dying animal, stripping the warmth from the air until every breath…

I know the exact time because I’d been awake for hours, watching the red digital numbers on my nightstand tick forward with that peculiar, mocking insistence that only insomnia brings….

The smell of vanilla extract and browned butter filled my kitchen, a scent designed to disarm. To the outside world, and specifically to my son-in-law, Mark, this scent was the…