When I Fall off the Cliff Leila RegisterApril 12, 2018 What she decided at the sandwich shop, not with total certainty, but with some, is that this time in her life would be defined by fine exper... Flash Fiction0 Comments
S. VAN NESS AVE. Peter ClarkeApril 2, 2018 When a homeless man asks for a hug and you run away screaming, you’ve finally embraced your lack of faith in humanity. You’ve become fully r... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Crimson Exodus Savannah SloneApril 2, 2018 On your drive home from work, through the velvet fog that looms halfway down the moss-laden trees, you pass a doe and wonder: what if? Your ... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Ideas to improve upon: A few Nathan DragonMarch 26, 2018 Re-design or re-think how the modern fridge is organized, used, and maintained so that the process of going to the grocery store, stocking t... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Lady in Blue Jeana MahanMarch 24, 2018 After nine o’clock I see her go off in a red Honda with the front bumper hanging off. The street lamps illuminate her dark makeup and reveal... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Don’t Stop Kenny TorrellaFebruary 21, 2018 When he retells the story to his buddies, he’s the one who approaches her. But really, he was sitting on a boardwalk bench letting his new t... Flash Fiction0 Comments
THE FLOOR IS LAVA Janelle GrecoApril 18, 2018 My sister wants to pick out a whole new kitchen. She wants a new fridge, new flooring--the whole nine yards. “I’m tired,” she says. “I’m ... Fiction0 Comments
The other kind of mermaids Christopher JamesApril 18, 2018 Part one, the cave We lived in what I called a cave and what my dad the artist called a found property. It was by this semi-busy road, an... Fiction1 Comment
Let’s Talk About Dinosaurs Sarah Bex RiceApril 12, 2018 You know when you’re trying to formulate words, move two lips,…two but just one set….to help articulate signals of thought from the brain to... Fiction0 Comments
McTier Uzodinma OkehiMarch 27, 2018 -Iowa City 1995 Just hold it. Pokerface . . . Man, be cool! I think, and I don’t want to seem too thi... Fiction0 Comments
Game Over William LennonMarch 25, 2018 Jack wakes up. He looks out the window of his DC apartment. Eastern Market. He’s got a decent job as a legislative aid for his congresswoman... Fiction0 Comments
The Bass Player in a Metal Band Lanny DurbinMarch 23, 2018 My sister Ruth let her boyfriend move into our trailer in March. Ruth was seventeen, and Joel, I don't know how old Joel was. Older than Rut... Fiction0 Comments
nine reasons why i dumped my hipster Grace GilbertMarch 21, 2018 1. your name crawls arrogantly over both itself & half-finished stacks of half-assed art amassing in the narrow hallways of your father’... Poetry0 Comments
Four Love Poems Chuck YoungMarch 19, 2018 the life & death of an arborist a nectarine hyperaware of its pit worried that the bites i’ve taken have already been much too big... Poetry0 Comments
Wednesdays Grace HandyMarch 15, 2018 How are you today? How’s your self care? Shut the fuck up you fucking bureaucrat Even if you did give a shit I wouldn’t give a shit that ... Poetry0 Comments
! Lauren BenderMarch 15, 2018 After two weeks of thinking minimalist, talking minimalist, breathing minimalist(!) I dream of buying groceries in a superstore, ... Poetry0 Comments
Vows Scott WordsmanMarch 15, 2018 Flip through a thousand prefabricated ideologies. Pick one, kiss. ... Poetry0 Comments
Skyline Yellow: An Interview with Shy Watson Greg ZorkoMarch 25, 2018 Shy Watson’s Cheap Yellow was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in January of 2018. Recently I chatted with Shy about how the boo... 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
Writing Loss, Pt 1: Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s “Empty Set” Wilson JosephsonApril 7, 2018 A woman grieving the death of her child goes to the Buddha. She had come to beg the famous teacher to perform a miracle and to bring the in... Reviews0 Comments
