Mark Johnson

The Dagwood

Mark JohnsonMay 31, 2022

Having finished mowing the lawn, I walked into the kitchen with the hopes of constructing a towering sandwich reminiscent of those in the Sunday paper cartoon s...

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Justice

Mark JohnsonOctober 21, 2020

The whole thing, the whole trajectory, changed when I realized I had left all my cash in Des Moines. Most of the cash had come from selling off the few things m...

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Two Stories about Iowa

Mark JohnsonMarch 24, 2020

Spencer, Iowa I was pissing in a can when I figured out I pissed exactly 16 ounces, full bladdered. I had just crashed my car. Not wrapp...

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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 parents were supposed to...

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Fiction

Now We’re a Family

I am JoJo Siwa’s favorite bow

Brad Pitt in the Multiverse

Poetry

Ritual of the Dead

My Abstraction

Burger King of Rome

Flash Fiction

Echoes Across the Ocean

College and Collage

Making a U-turn in the middle of Route 17 in the middle of the night

Reviews

DR. D.T.R.’S BIRDS AREN’T REAL CURED MY PARAFEARMONIA: A TESTIMONIAL

Random Occurrences

I Am Disappeared

Interviews

An Interview With Abigail Rivera Ramirez

ALL MY GENERATION WANTS: an interview with Austin Davis

Find the Shard of Beauty: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer

Columns

The 21 Best Small Press Books From 2021

Writer of the Week: Tanner Ballengee

Writer of the Week: Jeff Schneider

The Dagwood

Justice

Two Stories about Iowa

Three short stories about the Midwest

Mark Johnson