Issue 4, Summer 2021 Fiction
The 2021 Prize Winner in Fiction selected by Kate Gale:
Inspection Checklist | Koree Schueler
Name: Kami Shultz Kami- Kameron Mason. Which name do you want?
Property Number: 618
Please fill out this form based on the condition of rental at the time of move in and return it to our office.
Living Room
Carpet:
New condition. It smells like the deer hide rugs that my dad keeps rolled up in the closet under his stairs, but it is too new and too clean for this apartment. It clearly does not belong here. There isn’t even a drop of dust on it yet. I set the baby down on the white carpet and she crawls along the floor yanking up at it as if it were white grass.
Everything in the Middle | Alexa Koch
The rings around the bathtub won’t come out. Hard water stains, the broker had told me when I blanched at the sight of them. Should come out with some scrubbing and bleach. Hard water stains, the landlord told me when I called to tell him the tub was impossible to clean. I’ve scrubbed, bleached, and soaked. I’ve called a professional cleaning service.
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