Neck Brace Paragon Jonathan CardewOctober 12, 2017 I was addicted to Band-Aids. Small ones. I'd stick them to my arms, toes, knees—anywhere they'd fit. My family assumed I was accident-prone.... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Under Ghost Trestle Hannah GordonOctober 11, 2017 Someone asks me if I believe in God. I laugh and say pass me the tequila. Tequila burns the way I imagine loving someone does. Best chased w... Flash Fiction0 Comments
HOW MANY CLOWNS WILL IT TAKE TO STOP STEPHEN KING? Sara Kachelman & Lam HoOctober 10, 2017 A group of unemployed clowns attend a therapy session. 6 clowns were banned from public parks, 4 clowns were affected by NEA budget cuts, an... Flash Fiction2 Comments
George J.C.D KerwinOctober 5, 2017 George doesn’t eat anything except Cheerios. He says the rings remind him of Infinity and how the world continues to move even when you don’... Flash Fiction0 Comments
Dredger Jerrod SchwarzSeptember 14, 2017 “My brother and I started a sandbagging company. He handles the bagging and selling. I do all of the sand finding. The gathering.” His da... Flash Fiction0 Comments
We Will Set Anything on Fire Jules ArcherSeptember 13, 2017 The night they make us throw our words into the fire we have nothing but smiles behind our hands. The torn sheets of Merriam-Webster’s Di... Flash Fiction1 Comment
Here’s Where Blake WallinOctober 4, 2017 People I know places I go/ make me feel tongue tied./ I can see how people look down,/ they’re on the inside./ Here’s where the story ends ... Fiction0 Comments
TUTELAGE Mason BinkleySeptember 12, 2017 You stand in a class full of high school students who think you’re a joke, but you can relate to them because you used to mock the man who d... Fiction0 Comments
Pretend Money in a Real World Eric WallgrenAugust 10, 2017 At first I didn’t think I could win. But after I got Short Line, B&Q Railroad, and Reading Railroad all at once, I became obsessed. I at... Fiction0 Comments
Julian Learns a Lesson at the TGI Friday’s Ashley CarranzaJuly 5, 2017 It was a Saturday night, so Julian put on her best Hawaiian shirt and met her buddy, (also handsomely clad in a nearly identical Hawaiian sh... Fiction1 Comment
Can of Bug Killer Meagan MaguireJune 28, 2017 Frankie got a kick out of killing caterpillar nests. They pissed him off, those white masses of insect thread in the trees. He conquered the... Fiction0 Comments
We Sit There and Bleed Michael Seymour BlakeJune 7, 2017 We slice our throats open and head out for the night. Sara knows this dive bar where the toilets are painted to look like Trump’s gaping ... Fiction2 Comments
U-topia (No Place) Bob SykoraOctober 18, 2017 You said my mattress was too soft. We’d sink into the middle, swallowed whole, every night, bodies clunking, angular hard parts drunk withou... Poetry0 Comments
daddy issues R us Sophia TempestOctober 17, 2017 this is what I think about when I think about you: your honda smells like stale cigarette smoke on the way to lone st... Poetry0 Comments
THE POP PUNK BIBLE Adrienne NovySeptember 6, 2017 in the beginning, god was a fifteen-year-old girl & in the beginning, the earth was without form and void, and so god created MySpace &a... Poetry0 Comments
my breasts are okay Nooks KrannieAugust 31, 2017 stealing beasts / i plant gardens / o look look breasts are covering my beasts i’m stealing skin freckles and naming them ‘death’ it’s red l... Poetry0 Comments
coming to decisions after a period of sitting on the front porch listening to the noises coming from the neighbors’ backyard Maximus AdarveAugust 29, 2017 white people listen to bad music... Poetry0 Comments
Sorry for saying sorry, no one did anything wrong Nathan CainesAugust 23, 2017 This mutual experience ends up a relentless elysian river of mutilation and I go everywhere peeled and pleading against your martyred love, ... Poetry0 Comments
Escapism as Medicine, Making People Feel Nervous in Public, and Inspiration from the 7-Eleven Menu – A Chat with Porpentine Charity Heartscape Nikki BarnhartOctober 8, 2017 Porpentine Charity Heartscape is a writer, game designer, and dead swamp milf in Oakland. Her work includes xenofemme scifi/fantasy, cursed ... Interviews0 Comments
“Glad to Be Alone”: Hiromi Kawakami’s Strange Weather in Tokyo Wilson JosephsonOctober 15, 2017 Recommendation: To be savored; to be re-read. Keep a copy within reach anywhere that promises a flicker of solitude and a view of the chang... Reviews0 Comments
