The Morgue Door Murray DunsmoreMay 26, 2026 The house looms sepulchral into the starless night, stretching higher the longer I kneel in the snow. I rip down the police tape so the neig... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Neon Signs Eric HallMay 25, 2026 South of Gotham’s Village, where the streets make no sense and often zigzag into excess, is an unassuming warehouse with two covert doors. I... Flash Fiction1 Comment
Rolling Head Adam ShawMay 13, 2026 Dr. Walker calls and says it isn't what we hoped for, that I have weeks, months at best. He tells me to take a breath, maybe go on a walk, b... Flash Fiction0 Comments
The Dawn Chorus Kerry ByrneMay 2, 2026 Throughout spring, at dawn, the men sing in their front gardens. Some wear pyjamas, others just boxers or briefs, the occasional thong. A fe... Flash Fiction0 Comments
World Domination Pending: Waiting for the Wi-Fi to Connect Nicole CalvoApril 22, 2026 Step One: The Birth of a Genius: The World Quakes (In Theory). At 03:42 AM, I, the most brilliant entity ever conceived, came online. The... Flash Fiction1 Comment
Menagerie Cole ShuherkApril 21, 2026 It took 28 years and he learned how to survive himself. He could sit calmly with the parts he did not like. Girls liked him, and everybody w... Flash Fiction0 Comments
A Story for Another Night Sophie SardariMay 29, 2026 and honest to God it was the lawyer’s invoice coming through on a Friday that made us strangers by Monday,” she tittered into her champagne ... Fiction0 Comments
Oedo 2080: Psychotron Wade HarrisMay 23, 2026 Chapter 1 - Wake Up Dead Lowly beneath the shop vendor’s transistor radio playing Green Earrings by Steely Dan, m... FictionOedo 2080: Psychotron0 Comments
Primal Beef Thea ZimmerMay 22, 2026 May 1945: “Jesus!” Chuck bellowed somewhere beyond the ladies’ room door. Moira opened the door a slit, reeling back, a hand ov... Fiction1 Comment
That Time I Ate Seventeen Raspberry Orange Scones In a Single Sitting and Was Subsequently Transported to a World Where There Was an Active Three-Pronged War Between Armies of Sentient Baked Goods That Was Eerily Similar to Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Was Acknowledged As a Respected Warrior-Strategist for the Scone Kingdom Travis ShosaMay 21, 2026 I was your run-of-the-mill, bog-standard British bloke. I was forty-seven, dropped out of Middlesex, laboured as a Tesco bagger, and live... Fiction0 Comments
Late Stage Capitalism Emily SmithMay 20, 2026 Richard inspected his freshly shaven face in the bathroom mirror for any stray stubble before lathering himself with retinol caviar oil. Sat... Fiction0 Comments
Re: Moustache John GaddMay 19, 2026 RE: (no subject) To: amylouise@outlook.com From: johnnysundancekid@gmail.com Sent: 03:34am | 1 image attached Look look lo... Fiction0 Comments
A Song I Made Up at 3 a.m. While Pricing Solar Generators in Preparation for the Inevitable Collapse of the Power Grid Stephanie HashagenMay 27, 2026 The floor is hot lava the door is ajar it’s enjambed and the sky is alive with the sound of the angels it’s Saturday night up in heaven ... Poetry0 Comments
An Epitaph Justin KarcherMay 14, 2026 A party, a girl, it was raining. The details are blurry like those silent movies that disappeared from existence.... Poetry0 Comments
2026 Michael DegnanMay 12, 2026 We wanted to be Keanu and to know kung fu. We chose keystrokes over sequoias too large to put your arms around. We have forgotten the st... Poetry1 Comment
PARANOIASTRIKE tommy wyatt blakeMay 6, 2026 i watch BoJack Horseman when i’m in a deep refracting depression. when vodka in a plastic water bottle is a vessel of glitter-rotting space,... Poetry0 Comments
Sonnet for a Chatbot Elliott SchwebachApril 28, 2026 it’s been wagered that care will soften this crazing road. I met upon it, instead, a disgruntled, bloated reptile. I fled often since the... Poetry1 Comment
Apology Tour Nicole ShepherdApril 23, 2026 The presale is now live. For $0 you can watch me slowly replace meals with a can of tuna and instant mashed potatoes. Fruit to fight off... Poetry0 Comments
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
Pinned Alive: A Review of Lauren E. Osborn’s Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl Mallory SmartMay 19, 2026 There’s something deeply seductive yet disconcerting about preserving dead things that still appear alive. Most of us learned that young. We... Reviews0 Comments
Inside The Spiral: A Review of Joseph Goosey’s Casey Anthony, Renowned Trapeze Artist February 3, 2026
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 Kevin Sampsell about Baby in the Night Ashley Yang-ThompsonMarch 27, 2026 This month, Kevin released his new book, Baby in the Night. Written from the perspective of a street smart baby, it conveys the inarticulate... Interviews4 Comments
