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RSS- Excerpt from the sea-diaries by Greg Bennett
 (Where are the servants of Neptune?
Seabound and inhabiting deep havens.
Eventually I found it...) - For sale: baby shoes, never worn. by Greg Poulos (Death? Stillbirth? Abortion?
No.
She was infertile, and simply wanted to pretend.)
- Undercover by Greg Bennett (two comments) (Letters: A, I, C, H, W, P
Nouns: lantern, window, apple, eye, crucifix, bell
Verbs: to go, to...)
- Two Birds by Benjamin Randall
 (three comments) (Whilst amid the spreading oak
Nuthatch says, “And I deplore,
Heaven’s eminence is...) - grief by Ellen Taylor (She wouldn’t let herself cry, even though he was *gone*, truly gone, and he was never, never coming...)
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| Highly-rated stories- Hey! by Benjamin Randall (*Hey! Inside, hungry, and thirsty. Immobile (bound fiercely).
Innocent - *innocent!* - but...)
- In Listowel by Ian Sherred (To her everlasting regret, Emily was a scandal - and yet, oh unjust newspapermen, greatly loved...)
- one breathe by n. Huda (I was born- for but a second- pushed out of my old world of picturesque dreams my mind etched away...)
- Running Metaphor! by Anastasia Kolobrodov (two comments) (She had already attempted falling asleep. She'd tossed, turned, rolled around, fluffed the pillow...)
- Medea Flees West by Andrew Spellman (Medea watches the sea disappear beneath the wooden keel. The home shores she knew well have fallen...)
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- Norbury acrostic (four stories) (Compose a story, where the first letter of every word follows the sequence in the following excerpt...)
- A ghostly interrogation (two stories) (You and a lover are engaged in an argument about whether one of you is alive. One of you believes...)
- Lightless and bound (two stories) (You are imprisoned in a room with no light. There is no door, but you can occasionally hear the...)
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| News- Confiction.org - After many, many long months of loneliness on the great barren expanse of the non-web, we return! This site is now officially called confiction.org and inherits all that was once constrained.org. If you were once a user of constrained.org, all your user details should still be the same.
- Underground map - Here's a witty anagrammatical take on the London tube map.
- We reappear, cautious but ready to constrain - The good ship constrained.org returns, after a brief sojourn in the Bermuda triangle of cyberspace. Apologies to those who may have missed their footing when trying to board.
- A Dash of Seasonal Salt - We have a seasonal lipogram for you this Christmas, for you to scratch your heads over. Or perhaps, if you fancy it, enter Epitaph with a seasonal theme - although perhaps that is more suited for Easter.
- New logotype - The new ambigram was designed by Hilary Wade. Thanks Hilary!
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