Money, Honey Jenny StalterSeptember 20, 2021 You came crying on our doorstep, sweet baby, the day after you’d gone with him. I named you Butterfly because what else can I call you after... Flash Fiction0 Comments
How I’d Kill Me Chase DaytonAugust 3, 2021 Today, last night, awakened again, I was chasing a cat with giant shears and a very beautiful thing occurred to me. If only … I... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Dead-Girl Selfies Michelle WilsonJuly 29, 2021 It was the next big thing, like smoking banana peels or planking. The girl was inspired by an episode in that trending horror series—you kno... Flash Fiction0 Comments
At the pop punk concert Erin SchallmoserJuly 27, 2021 The dark cave of the club holds us like a hug and we are surrounded by a couple hundred other people, all singing along with the same exact ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
The Last Weekend in July Zach MurphyJuly 26, 2021 It was the summer of 1993 and Keilani and I sat by the crackling fire as the bullfrogs croaked a sonorous symphony, the grass swayed from a ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
In SpaceX, No One Can Hear You Tweet Paulette PierceJuly 20, 2021 The famous actor is standing next to the phallic object. The object was designed by the billionaire idiot to carry people to Mars on a jetst... Flash Fiction0 Comments
The Deep End Wilson KoewingSeptember 21, 2021 The first time Aly said she couldn’t be killed, I thought nothing of it. She was filing her nails on the edge of the bed. I was sleeping ... Fiction0 Comments
GROTESQUE Lee Matthew GoldbergSeptember 16, 2021 I MISSED THE CONNECTION TO SOME NOWHERE CITY ON MY ROUTE AND WOUND UP STRANDED IN ONE EVEN LESS APPEALING. Christmas season brought booked f... Fiction0 Comments
Sound Chasers Teddy BurnetteSeptember 15, 2021 There are sounds that come from trees that he cannot explain or identify. He understands the sounds are emanating from bugs or birds, but wi... Fiction0 Comments
Butler Door Shannon Elizabeth HardwickSeptember 14, 2021 It started began in the kitchen. There were times the light was so bright I’d have to put on my sunglasses or my Magician’s hat that hangs n... Fiction0 Comments
michael scott dies of cancer: the unaired one-hour special of the office Tex GreshamSeptember 10, 2021 It is 2022 and the crew has returned to the fictional offices of Dunder Mifflin. This episode is written by Greg Daniels and Ron Nyswaner... Fiction0 Comments
Night Drive Jon NixSeptember 8, 2021 The screaming stopped the instant Sam opened her eyes. She’d been having nightmares about mass shootings again. They’d mostly gone away duri... Fiction0 Comments
Thy Flaming Hearts Brotherhood Customer Support Committee Montana ThomasSeptember 21, 2021 Sitting there like a forgotten 7Up in the barn on a hot day. You’re all dirty again, dumb dumb — nobody’s fault but your own. The whipped c... Poetry0 Comments
the art class bastard Catherine WrightSeptember 14, 2021 the woman in the bucolic skirt says “draw 4 faces” (i pull at my hair) the 4 faces i find are ladies: the first is static, statuesq... Poetry0 Comments
Hide-And-Seek Sara PotocsnyAugust 25, 2021 My son tells me to close my eyes and count to ten, but then remains standing feet away, hands over his face, giggling wildly. I’ve tried to ... Poetry0 Comments
THE CROSSWORD Benjamin HarnettAugust 18, 2021 One day I discovered I could reliably finish the Sunday puzzle all on my own. We used to do them together as a family, Mom, Dad, even my... Poetry0 Comments
Life’s Minutia Without The Cringe Lucia GallipoliAugust 16, 2021 I am in Walgreens and “Happy” by Pharrell plays and I wonder if either one of the two people who are, to me, the same Sopranos-loving person... Poetry0 Comments
If I were a Simpsons Character, which one would I be Matt McGuirkAugust 12, 2021 These are the big questions I get asked as a high school English teacher. What a loaded question and you know all the students are going t... Poetry1 Comment
Art for Life’s Sake: An Interview with John Madera, Editor of Big Other Brendan LorberAugust 13, 2021 Brendan Lorber: Let’s start at the beginning. Big Other’s name conjures up a play on (and distinction from) Orwell’s watchful dictator. It a... Interviews0 Comments
A Feeling of Intimate Collaboration Between Reader and Writer: An Interview with Meg Pokrass May 28, 2021
Nothing In Life Matters: a review of This Is What Happens When You Leave Me Alone by D.T. Robbins Mallory SmartSeptember 7, 2021 I’m getting beat up over here trying to decide if everything is lame and pointless or if that's just a condition of my being a millennial. A... Reviews0 Comments
To Remove Devastation From Our Minds: A Review of Emory Easton’s Mother Can You Hear Me Now? August 28, 2021
Each Analytic Entitled Pestilential Essayist Choke: a Review of Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos, edited by Justin Isis July 17, 2021
