someday I will eat dirt Ian liptakDecember 29, 2025 I planted tobacco seeds in a park by the Pike River. Kenosha is an A Marlboro Red. I smoke American spirit light blues. Pavement in the a... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Eleven Daniel KriegerDecember 2, 2025 The first time I broke up with you, I got jumped on the way home by three teenagers in puffers who threw me to the ground and stomped on my ... Flash Fiction1 Comment
Syntropy Clay TroupNovember 25, 2025 In bed, Morbidia consults her Magic 8 Ball, whose little blue triangle floats dramatically into view to say NO. She shakes it again. She sha... Flash Fiction0 Comments
75th & Michigan Meghan LambNovember 24, 2025 2:36 This empty lot is an art gallery. A chainlink fence surrounds the lot, and serves as a kind of makeshift gallery wall. Doz... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Honest Advice from My Diddy at the Rattlesnake Rodeo in Ezekiel, Mississippi Mike ItayaNovember 21, 2025 During my alleged 10th birthday at the Rattlesnake Rode in Ezekiel, Mississippi (I’d turned 12 the month before, to the detection of nobody)... Flash Fiction1 Comment
Gwen Stefani CD Christopher BlankenshipNovember 19, 2025 The eczema on Davey’s left cheek has its own topography now—ridges and valleys that add half an inch to his profile. He thinks his face is w... Flash Fiction4 Comments
Ten ways space wants to kill you Anthony VerdiDecember 31, 2025 I feel the nail start to give and I edge my front tooth in further. I press down and hear the clip. Shit, a pain shoots through my cuticle. ... Fiction0 Comments
Corporations! Sean DowieDecember 31, 2025 I love corporations. When I play video games, I imagine my character as a badass CEO. He’s wearing a suit, mowing down enemies without remor... Fiction0 Comments
The Tarot Of Organ Removal Jacquie VelascoDecember 30, 2025 The last thing the anesthesiologist said to me was "Did you watch the newest season of White Lotus?" I was fast asleep before I could tel... Fiction0 Comments
Mr. Gruesome Jacob VausDecember 24, 2025 i. They call me Gruesome, and I goad them on. “Yes,” I say. “Fantastic,” I say. “Call me Mister Gruesome.” Have you seen me? It ... Fiction0 Comments
Straight from the Tiger’s Mouth Shayla FrandsenDecember 23, 2025 “You really don’t think so?” Bit of an attitude, as I asked this, managing only a polite glance at the capuchins all twitchy and jumpy be... Fiction0 Comments
I Tried To Obey Every Self Help Video In My Feed For One Day Daniel O. BaileyDecember 18, 2025 I wake up to the sound of my phone having a seizure on the nightstand. Notifications. DMs. Three different apps telling me it is time to ... Fiction0 Comments
Ode to the RedBull Karina TenDecember 26, 2025 A divine can in my hand teases me, all beckoning with its colours of blue and white. I am unable to resist, and so I’ll be inhaling its v... Poetry0 Comments
Home Alone at the End of the Year Sammi LaBueDecember 24, 2025 The candles are fake burning in the new old windows of my movie set house Like I have died and been reincarnated as Kevin Mcallister. Stil... Poetry1 Comment
In Defense of Popup Ads Nicole ShepherdDecember 22, 2025 Algorithms may aggravate, but they never forget. They remember your needs: wedding guest dress, cheap meals, how to survive a recessi... Poetry0 Comments
Singing Warren Zevon feeling my bones mutate into asshole bones Travis ShosaDecember 22, 2025 not literally, of course every asshole i have eaten has been boneless but through the magic of song i have conjured the brundle pod and... Poetry0 Comments
Poems About Nebraska Benjamin PattersonDecember 17, 2025 I. Nebraska is Never Anything Iowa passed in a series of collapsing, unrelated images. out of the fog, out of the fog, they said. Cro... Poetry0 Comments
21 Pilots (yes, I know it’s styled “Twenty One”) Damien FarleyDecember 12, 2025 Listening party line long Paralleling the main drag In this Bound Brook but not really Standing in for some other unknown Early autumn i... Poetry0 Comments
The 21 Best Small Press Books From 2021 Mallory SmartDecember 6, 2021 I don’t know what happened in 2021 because I’m still trying to process 2020. Yet here we are at the end of it getting ready to welcome 2022... BlogColumnsReviews1 Comment
Writer of the Week: Tanner Ballengee Maudlin HouseOctober 22, 2021 Tanner's writing is about Tanner Ballengee. His hobbies are skateboarding, forever and always, and recently graffiti, again, since the statu... Columns0 Comments
Writer of the Week: Jeff Schneider Maudlin HouseSeptember 2, 2021 Jeff Schneider is a writer, founder of Pig Roast Publishing, and the former guitarist and songwriter of the noise-rock bands Arab On Radar a... Columns0 Comments
The Weight of the World: A Review of Nicholas Keating Casbarro’s Vitalerium: Descent into the Void Alana M. KelleyNovember 30, 2025 Nicholas Keating Casbarro’s Vitalerium: Descent into the Void is a vividly executed work of science fiction. A blend of space opera, politic... Reviews0 Comments
These Efforts are Only Temporary: A Review of James R. Gapinski’s The Museum of Future Mistakes November 23, 2025
An Interview With Abigail Rivera Ramirez Noah CiceroMay 26, 2023 I first saw Abigail Rivera Ramirez’s painting show up on my Instagram. I was immediately stunned by them, then it said her paintings would b... Interviews0 Comments