I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY Robert John MillerFebruary 26, 2026 The doctor, the ENT, is so far 10 minutes late, so I’m just sitting in a high-backed black chair, waiting. It feels suave, like a private sa... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Farewell to Regale Park T.S. CarneyFebruary 11, 2026 It has been a few years since I moved out of Regale Park. I still miss the location—the apartment tucked next to a synagogue and a Catholic ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Jack the Ripper Sean DowieFebruary 10, 2026 There’s been a seismic shift in the world. I’m not ripping many movie theater tickets anymore. Working at AMC was a dream. My manager calle... Flash Fiction0 Comments
When we h(a)unted Rachel Abbey McCaffertyFebruary 4, 2026 We stalked the halls of dead malls, ghosts before our time. We lived by sense, taste and smell and sight, by instinct, lust and desire an... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Welcome to Hell-vetica Alyson FloydJanuary 27, 2026 Fluorescent lights peel my droopy eyelids open. My graphic design professor clicks through slide after slide of logos. Jeep. American Appare... Flash Fiction0 Comments
A Word of Caution Before Your Tonsil Surgery Ági BoriJanuary 21, 2026 Since you’ve opted to have awake tonsil surgery to avoid general anesthesia due to your existing heart condition, the removal of your tonsil... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Beating Each Other to Death With Shovels Quinn AdikesMarch 4, 2026 From: Sergeant Major Esposito To: Colonel Palmer Subj: After Actions Report For Operation ‘Dig It’ Summary: At 13:37, ... Fiction0 Comments
The Big Green Lie Sabine MayorMarch 3, 2026 It’s 9:02 pm. The stars are awake. My intestines are as if interstates and the Taglioni is swerving like a motherfucker. I’ve vomited on thi... Fiction0 Comments
The Algorithm Is Very Spiritual Today Camellia PeeblesFebruary 25, 2026 “Is my boyfriend going to leave me?” The girl asks it the way people ask about a menu item that’s clearly explained—like she already know... Fiction1 Comment
Your Ex-Girlfriend Wayne McMahonFebruary 13, 2026 You’re a writer, and you’re telling a friend of yours about this story you’re planning to write. Your friend’s also a writer, but that’s not... Fiction0 Comments
Goth Parenting My Possum for Instagram Likes Michael Anthony RanfoneFebruary 12, 2026 At the time I was thirty-seven, divorced, and telling people I didn’t want children. I knew that line by heart. The possum started as an acc... Fiction1 Comment
Thirty-Eight to One Lila-Rose BeckfordFebruary 11, 2026 “Wouldn’t it be funny if we got married?” Daniel’s fingers drummed a nervous percussion on the steering wheel, a rhythm that had started mi... Fiction0 Comments
BAD HAIRCUT Dalton DayMarch 2, 2026 My haircut wasn’t going well. I looked like how seashells feel when they are first sewn to the shore. The person cutting my hair explain... Poetry1 Comment
Photo Booth on Mars Melissa FeuersteinFebruary 24, 2026 Last time I saw you, we were trapped in a photo booth on planet Mars. I traced the anatomy of your knife sheath, your kydex holsters. Althou... Poetry0 Comments
Smoke Break Jason SchwartzFebruary 23, 2026 Loyalty is molecular, rasps the night, its throat scored with string lights. But sister-in-law— Klonopin sometimes unrhymes your D... Poetry0 Comments
Twenty Questions Jayrold TrasporteFebruary 19, 2026 Did I mistake the water again for forgiveness this morning? Washing the piled-up dishes, the horseflies in this sun-sticky mid-afternoon ... Poetry0 Comments
Landscape with the Drowning of Jason Voorhees John SaraFebruary 18, 2026 No one noticed when Icarus fell either, one leg kicking out of water, the ploughman too deep in his work to hear the splash, think... Poetry0 Comments
I Want to Be Tabitha Stephens Susan CossetteFebruary 17, 2026 Half mortal, half witch, a twitch of my pert freckled nose will bring tuxedoed warlock minions bearing strawberry ice cream with rainbow... Poetry1 Comment
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
Inside The Spiral: A Review of Joseph Goosey’s Casey Anthony, Renowned Trapeze Artist Mallory SmartFebruary 3, 2026 We are all participating in the disposal process. That’s the first thing you have to vibe when you pick up Casey Anthony, Renowned Trapeze A... Reviews2 Comments
The Weight of the World: A Review of Nicholas Keating Casbarro’s Vitalerium: Descent into the Void November 30, 2025
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
