The Night Nobody Moved Mazzy SleepMay 15, 2022 Act 1: Sitting in the Road I thought you’d come home past midnight as I chewed apart the last few stale crumbs that I had snatched from t... Flash Fiction0 Comments
That Aspect of Happiness Sean EnnisMay 5, 2022 Tornado watch, and there was no violence at the robotics competition, no flame-throwing, no gears clattering and rolling off into the wareho... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Spiral-Shaped Bruise Caleb BetheaApril 18, 2022 Mike Brady soaks in his new hot tub, thinking of his old wife. He’s trying to place her — the color of her hair, the shape of her eyes, and ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Long Road Short Scott Mitchel MayApril 8, 2022 I came to the spot where she knew I’d go because she’d made it this way and only this way. I am not a man, after all. Ashen white are ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
REVERSION Sarp SozdinlerMarch 29, 2022 As a kid, I looked after an ant colony that smelled like crocodiles. They started each day by filing in from one end of the circuit and call... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Had a dream about some stuff J. F. GleesonMarch 15, 2022 Had a dream where Phoebe Bridgers was at my house. Two actually: 1. Phoebe Bridgers was at my house but I was not at my h... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Two Seconds of Inspiration Mohammad HakimaMay 16, 2022 For as long as he could remember, Jalil had always been an Aghazade. “It’s a term of respect,” his father used to say. “It means you’re d... Fiction0 Comments
Aliens at Rest Brooks C. MendellMay 11, 2022 Sharp words ricocheted off backsplash tiles in the kitchen, making the mother-daughter skirmishes of yesterday feel pedestrian. How do innoc... Fiction0 Comments
NOTES FROM A PLASTIC PARENTHOOD Travis D. RobersonMay 10, 2022 Hannah gasps as she pushes one last time. A baby's hollering follows. I take a deep breath and prepare myself for umbilical cutting duties. ... Fiction0 Comments
The Experience Machine Remi SkytterstadMay 9, 2022 At first glance, Isak looked almost human. I found him splayed against the rocks after a winter storm on one of my daily walks along the sho... Fiction0 Comments
Killing of seven clowns Ali ZarbaliMay 8, 2022 I It was only later, he realized that these all was nothing more than crop of boredom. He had already had such realizations, of those he ... Fiction0 Comments
Los Angeles Bar Crawl Aatif RashidMay 4, 2022 1. He begins in a bar in Santa Monica in the early evening, a gastropub that serves burgers and beer, though he only has beer, first a lager... Fiction0 Comments
How To Take Advice Rhienna Renée GuedryMay 12, 2022 Advice comes in two kinds: that which looks good in calligraphy, and that which stabs. One is eat-pray-love and it’s bullshit. Keep a dream ... Poetry0 Comments
The Dark Universe Max SternbaumApril 22, 2022 the rationalists speak of a mystery something they can’t solve that imbues our natural history and drives us to evolve it’s the Dark Uni... Poetry1 Comment
You Don’t See Them Around Much Anymore Tim JervisApril 19, 2022 The scale trade emerged as a promising enterprise due to European demand for hats made from lake monster pelts. Two men established a mobile... Poetry0 Comments
Old Tony’s Sunday Mathieu CaillerApril 18, 2022 The musician at the deserted bar gets up to do his usual Sunday set from six p.m. to midnight. In his early 70s, he’s been doing this for th... Poetry4 Comments
Working at a Strip-club in the Middle of the Midwestern Rural Brianne AgnizleApril 14, 2022 The snow shoved off by a plow fills in the ditch now, over where I’d seen a wild dog sleeping for weeks. On the drive home the nig... Poetry1 Comment
going to acapulco w v sutraApril 13, 2022 holding my fate in both my hands waiting for captain waiting for orders overboard i must and will be thrown oh let me fly to my duties l... Poetry0 Comments
Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer Diana KoleMarch 11, 2022 Rebecca van Laer’s debut novella How to Adjust to the Dark (Long Day Press, 2022) is a hybrid of prose, poetry, and theory, drawing on the p... Interviews0 Comments
A Perpetual Almost: A Review Of Ex-Members by Tobias Carroll Dmitry SamarovMay 9, 2022 Set in a small and haunted New Jersey town, Tobias Carroll’s fourth book (and second novel) is a patchwork portrait that illuminates as much... Reviews0 Comments
