TECHNOCRAT’S DOG Chance DibbenJanuary 3, 2020 Days before the product launch, a rich, ego-driven technocrat is kidnapped, tortured, then killed by a cabal of rivals and international gov... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Events Thomas CooperJanuary 3, 2020 Free Speech Rally I attended a Free Speech Rally today. The first speaker was meant to be good, although I couldn’t hear anything he was ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Three short stories about the Midwest Mark JohnsonJanuary 3, 2020 1. My friend Andrew is a successful accountant. And a good person. In the sixth grade, he failed reading class. He received a form his pare... Flash Fiction0 Comments
A Story With a Dog In It Emily WeberDecember 24, 2019 On the bright November day I gave away my dog, I watered every plant in the house. Even the artificial ones. The pots overflowed, leaving pu... Flash Fiction0 Comments
waking girls SUIYI TANGNovember 13, 2019 she woke up selfishly. as if cloistered by a hardened bowl, her mind thrashed, its soft edges driving into knots of yellowed ceramic. each h... Flash Fiction0 Comments
A Lesson in Meteorology L. SovieroNovember 11, 2019 The Santiago kid committed suicide that morning. Two men had to carry Santiago’s mother out to a car. Maria said when people got that sad th... Flash Fiction0 Comments
DIY Electroconvulsive Therapy Stephen WackJanuary 6, 2020 He’s the guy who can get the job done. “Whatever it may be, however tall an order,” he says, “I’m your man.” She meets him in the alleywa... Fiction0 Comments
Picnic at Wild Orchid Meadow F. E. ClarkDecember 26, 2019 He steers his jeep into town late one mist wreathed night when the full seed moon is muffled by cloud, a stranger whose long-gone mother tol... Fiction0 Comments
Trees Andrew TranDecember 23, 2019 I wiped my face with a paper towel to remove the streaks and spots of foundation, mascara, and lipstick. I was ten years old, helping my bro... Fiction0 Comments
Janine Janelle BassettDecember 13, 2019 My friend’s mother is coming to pick me up for a sleepover so I need to quickly disguise who I really am. I spritz myself with grapefruit-li... Fiction0 Comments
Let Christmas Grow Up Laura ArciniegaDecember 12, 2019 On December 8, Santa Claus realized that it hadn’t snowed yet in any of the mountain ranges around the Inland Empire. Mount San Antonio, Mou... Fiction0 Comments
A Brief History of the ’80s Action Figure Soccer League Greg OldfieldDecember 9, 2019 We used to play soccer every day. In the beginning, Yoda encouraged us to try different surfaces like the Brazilians and pelada. Carpet i... Fiction0 Comments
Performance Space Bronwen BrennerJanuary 6, 2020 Girls in pink dresses are crawling around in the grass Their hair is striped blonde, zebra-like I eat a fistful of cashews and watch f... Poetry0 Comments
Ode to the Olive Garden Sadie Shuck HinkelDecember 28, 2019 After forkfuls of Lasagna Fritta, Breana and I are punch drunk on garlic and raspberry lemonade. I turn sixteen tomorrow, and we are here... Poetry0 Comments
Dermatitis Kate MacLamDecember 19, 2019 Just like I lick my wounds I have been licking my pink Himalayan salt lamp praying for ions to heal me I know I shouldn’t swallow the ... Poetry0 Comments
Space Poems from Poland John-Michael BloomquistDecember 19, 2019 Blood Moon Eclipse and the International Space Station —Krakow, Poland, 2019 We are tracking the ISS across the sky tonight, watching i... Poetry0 Comments
Automatonophobia Victoria NordlundDecember 12, 2019 Then suddenly, one day in 1925, success. John Logie Baird transmitted the first ever recognisable TV image across his attic workroom. The im... Poetry1 Comment
Bart Schaneman on The Silence Is The Noise Tanner BallengeeOctober 20, 2018 Interview by Tanner Ballengee * * * Bart Schaneman didn’t write a book. He created a living, bleeding entity. Pulsating ... Interviews0 Comments
Escapism as Medicine, Making People Feel Nervous in Public, and Inspiration from the 7-Eleven Menu – A Chat with Porpentine Charity Heartscape October 8, 2017
The Death of Nihilism: A review of Noah Cicero’s GIVE IT TO THE GRAND CANYON Blake WallinJanuary 10, 2020 Ah, the Grand Canyon. Purveyor of crushed dreams and desperation, overseer of Vegas excess and western stoicism, keeper of our nation’s hope... Reviews0 Comments
