Rock Wall Wilson KoewingSeptember 18, 2020 On a trail near Wolf Creek, a shirtless jogger passed our group at 12,000 feet. A tattoo of Idaho was emblazoned on his right shoulder. Swea... Flash Fiction0 Comments
An Incident at The Vladi-Schwarz Sixty-Four Squares Championship Kausik KskSeptember 17, 2020 Tabakovic’s gaze bores through Dashem’s head. The rapping of Dashem’s knuckles on the table intensifies. Would Dashem restore the lost glory... Flash Fiction1 Comment
The Name You Asked For Ernesto ReyesSeptember 8, 2020 When you’re born, your Name will be waiting for you, standing by your father. You’ll quickly be able to recognize your Name, even if you don... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Three Blurbs Zac SmithSeptember 7, 2020 1. Drunk and despairing, I plucked this book from a low-hanging branch. I bit into its tender flesh and let the inky juice drip down my c... Flash Fiction0 Comments
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY John BanningSeptember 4, 2020 I was in the hotel room and had managed to create a wedge of space between the bed and the nightstand, about a metre wide, and I had bunched... Flash Fiction0 Comments
That Wolf Motherfucker D.T. RobbinsAugust 31, 2020 It pretty much started with him howling during orgasm on top of his girlfriend one night. After that, he grew a mustache. He’d never had a m... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Highlander Alexandra KesslerSeptember 10, 2020 It’s only us out here. Going fast on the dark road. Clare always takes the back way. Her Shortcuts. She’s my Best Friend. Her fingers on the... Fiction0 Comments
Coyote Alexandrine OgundimuSeptember 5, 2020 Saint never had a lot of luck, but then again, who does? Mall food court. She was asking this manager for a job, a man with an eyebrow ri... Fiction0 Comments
My Dental Hygienist is a Vampire Sara DobbieSeptember 3, 2020 I’m sitting in the vinyl chair, reclined so far that I’m looking up at her. She bends over me, so close I can see a faint blue vein featheri... Fiction0 Comments
A Not-So-Irish Exit Dylan MartinAugust 26, 2020 It’s 10 o’clock and the party’s barely even started, but every minute of this conversation feels like another hour, and I fear that if I don... Fiction0 Comments
Mary has been quitting her job. Michael ColbertAugust 24, 2020 Mary has been quitting her job, but she can’t get to the office today because of the alligator out the door. She moved into this apartment o... Fiction0 Comments
Buying Dr. Phil’s House Erik KennedyAugust 19, 2020 Friends are the worst. After I won the largest Mega Millions jackpot in history, many of my well-wishers understandably asked m... Fiction0 Comments
Any Fact of War Results in Death Anthony AgueroSeptember 16, 2020 Oh America, When have you been sure of any War. A man was lighting up a spoon, Some deadly honey, and you put a gun to... Poetry0 Comments
How to Write a Poem by Not Writing a Poem Kia Alice GroomSeptember 14, 2020 Six hair metal videos on an empty stomach. Optional head banging. A car ride in the rain with the windows down, radio up—that’s how th... Poetry0 Comments
Dianne Delvon T. MattinglySeptember 9, 2020 Evenings find her lying flat, a slab of stone, smooth and chiseled, imperfect in the eyes she imagines fit snug in his sockets. When, in... Poetry0 Comments
Thoughts of Oblivion Are Difficult to Avoid Stephen LangloisSeptember 8, 2020 failing the effort of feeling the very idea of comfort discomforting ... Poetry0 Comments
Three Prose Poems That Might Be About Cats Benjamin DavisSeptember 1, 2020 1. It Follows I stepped out for a cigarette this morning and an old Korean woman, clutching a gray and white Shih Tzu, stumbled... Poetry0 Comments
Death Left a Voicemail H Kapp-KloteAugust 31, 2020 Death calls my cell phone at 8:45 (your phone’s always off in the morning). Soon people will gather, tears well in their eyes (it’s r... Poetry0 Comments
Each Story Functions as a Specific Sound: An Interview with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips Gauraa ShekharSeptember 18, 2020 Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’ debut collection won the 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, and it’s no surprise why: Sleepovers is at... Interviews0 Comments
We Avoid Stereotypes by Making Characters More Complex: An Interview with Jenny Bhatt September 11, 2020
Building Normalcy with a Ring of Fascination Around It: An Interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano August 27, 2020
Not Drowning but Waving: A review of LAKE OF URINE by Guillermo Stitch Mallory SmartAugust 11, 2020 This novel is surprisingly good. I hate stating that in such a candid way but even I was shocked that a book with such a strange and grotesq... Reviews0 Comments
