Third Date Is When You Tell ‘Em Sasha BrownApril 23, 2024 CW: it’s just sort of gross They were making out on his couch when Rich said, “I gotta tell you something, baby: I have crabs.” ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
My Skeleton Wants Out David HensonApril 18, 2024 It would like nothing more than to shed, pirouette and moonwalk away to its own music, leaving me behind like a deflated pool dragon. My ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Ted’s funeral is held at McDonald’s Cheryl MarkoskyMarch 18, 2024 Frank deep-fat cremates him and scatters his ashes along with fries in the park. McNugget Buddies forever, Dipstick Kid and Layabout Loui... Flash Fiction1 Comment
Stuff Matthew CiazzaMarch 8, 2024 I’m holding crystal light water enhancers because I know you love them and I figure you’re dehydrated. I need help. It’s been a while since ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Dealing with My Existential Crisis After My Spec Script “Kevin McClane: Die Home Alone Hard” is Rejected for the Twentieth Time Sean SchulzFebruary 29, 2024 I know many people believe they are, but I actually am, a genius, and its hard to describe the pain I feel from not having that recognized. ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
VIDEO, BLOODY, INN Elijah SparkmanFebruary 28, 2024 Once upon a time there was a dog named Hunter. He had a disease on his nose. Nobody really cared. He was in a band called The Bloody Videos.... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Clack Clack Clack Elou CarrollApril 25, 2024 In Etta’s wardrobe there is a typewriter. She can hear the clack clack clack ping! while she tries to sleep. In her dreams, its ribbons coil... Fiction0 Comments
Collections Aren LeBrunApril 22, 2024 We drove out to Fig’s place to see about Holiday, who owed Vaughn some money, I guess. They were on the outs again, but Holiday was still cr... Fiction0 Comments
The Ill-Advised Trip of an Italian Plumber James CallanApril 17, 2024 Mario was a regular, self-employed plumber with Italian roots, an amusing, high voice, and a ludicrous mustache that somehow worked, lent ju... Fiction0 Comments
Airplane Mode Erin LittleApril 16, 2024 I’m watching the other passengers board the plane and counting every pair of Lululemon leggings I see. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s tr... Fiction0 Comments
Random Motivational Stop Lachlan BlainApril 15, 2024 Midway down Joseph Avenue, I was hailed down by a motivational patrol car. I pulled my vehicle to the curb and waited as the motivational of... Fiction0 Comments
The best years of our lives Amanda ChenMarch 28, 2024 A gust of wind had knocked down the bouquet overnight. In the morning, I found the flowers on the floor, white linen ribbon cinching the ste... Fiction0 Comments
From Watching Days of Our Lives Rachel BeckerApril 26, 2024 I learn to distrust wealthy heirs, their enviable bone structure. I gather that a coma is just another word for sleeping off a season, ... Poetry0 Comments
Fuck Marry Kill Jesslyn WhittellApril 19, 2024 Every time I open a horizon, I find myself on the brink of the kind of dreams that you steal from a man who only says I love you when he ... Poetry0 Comments
So It Goes in the Summer of 1993 Victoria NordlundApril 2, 2024 It’s 2 years before you birth your 1st child, 17 years before your 1st mammogram, 25 years before your 1st hot flash, 27 years before the... Poetry0 Comments
Get Off My Lawn & While You’re Doing So Don’t Judge Me Ewen GlassMarch 31, 2024 When punk – and I use these words advisedly – ass teenagers look with pity or disdain on the middle-aged, they might say I don't want to get... Poetry0 Comments
A Holiness of Donuts Elena ZhangMarch 29, 2024 Our father used to own a donut shop. Every morning, he would wake up to yearning dough. Did you make old-fashioneds or Long Johns, we ask. H... Poetry0 Comments
For This Poem to Be a Metaphor for Last Year Dan LeachMarch 26, 2024 The stray mutt relieving himself on the abandoned Christmas tree would need to be three-legged and the tree would need to be burned or a... 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
A Review of Will We All Still See Each Other Afterward Dmitry SamarovFebruary 16, 2024 Charles Bukowski called love a dog from hell but Tyler Dempsey shows it to be an animal resilient enough to withstand arctic freezes and the... Reviews0 Comments
The Boys Aren’t Alright, They Want to be School Shooters: A Review of New Millennium Boyz December 2, 2023
Unveiling the Supernatural: Nora Fussner’s ‘The Invisible World’ Conjures Eerie Excellence September 23, 2023
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
