Eleven

Daniel KriegerDecember 2, 2025

The first time I broke up with you, I got jumped on the way home by three teenagers in puffers who threw me to the ground and stomped on my face. I spent a week...

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Syntropy

Clay TroupNovember 25, 2025

In bed, Morbidia consults her Magic 8 Ball, whose little blue triangle floats dramatically into view to say NO. She shakes it again. She shakes it again. She sh...

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75th & Michigan

Meghan LambNovember 24, 2025

2:36   This empty lot is an art gallery. A chainlink fence surrounds the lot, and serves as a kind of makeshift gallery wall. Dozens of framed prints...

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Honest Advice from My Diddy at the Rattlesnake Rodeo in Ezekiel, Mississippi

Mike ItayaNovember 21, 2025

During my alleged 10th birthday at the Rattlesnake Rode in Ezekiel, Mississippi (I’d turned 12 the month before, to the detection of nobody), my diddy, R.T., be...

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Gwen Stefani CD

Christopher BlankenshipNovember 19, 2025

The eczema on Davey’s left cheek has its own topography now—ridges and valleys that add half an inch to his profile. He thinks his face is wide enough as-is. Hi...

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A Recipe for Anxiety: or Hating Everyone and Wondering if Everyone Hates You

Laney LenoxNovember 17, 2025

Fascism Climate change Being autistic Reading The Guardian at 7 AM with a cup of coffee and no solid food in your system Seeing your neighbor wa...

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Self-Care, But Make It Weird

Deb TracyNovember 11, 2025

Welcome to your best self, curated in wax and pretzels. You deserve a Girl Lunch that looks effortless, tastes passable, and hides the evidence of your unraveli...

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Secondhand Sam’s Where Secondhand Children’s Clothes Are First Class!

Rebecca KlassenNovember 10, 2025

EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK   Sam’s Message Maybe you’re here to stay, or just for a season. At Secondhand Sam’s, you’re part of a family and you’re valued, n...

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Dead Air

Eli WarrenOctober 31, 2025

The station felt older at night. The walls hummed with leftover heat from the day, and the smell of burnt coffee lingered under the vents. Kaila sat in front of...

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Night of the Living Dead

Adam McOmberSeptember 25, 2025

Here is a movie like Night of the Living Dead, but it’s not Night of the Living Dead. It’s black and white, yes. Grainy. And there is, everywhere, a certain haz...

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Fracture & Fragments & Fuckin’ Fish Food

Mitchell NySeptember 24, 2025

Hunger pulled at my viscera and the nausea that followed twisted me into knots. They shook me and found me awake, gazing at the red LED  “2:13 a.m.” My cat Mona...

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My Funeral on Facebook Live

Marie Anne ArreolaSeptember 19, 2025

Fifteen lucid memories sit in the audience, watching a hundred others I can’t place. I arrive late, time zones slipping through me like water, but it hardly mat...

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Sleep Paralysis Demon

Alex GurtisSeptember 17, 2025

It was like when the lightning hit the tv, but didn’t electrocute him. It never played images the same. In the evening as the sun set, the child was drawn to th...

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Review of MDMA purchased from Etsy by a Zen Buddhist priest

Eliot S. KuSeptember 16, 2025

I downed the mosquito-colored crystals dissolved in a glass of tap water and sat for at least an hour in a hot tub breathing in the haze of aerosolized dead ski...

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Depressed for Panda Express (Ms. Wanda)

Mike ItayaSeptember 15, 2025

See, in Ezekiel, Mississippi we were all on tenterhooks. There wasn’t much to tether us to life. Weeks before, rumors that we had a Panda Express coming flooded...

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Oosterpark

Joel TomfohrSeptember 9, 2025

One time I wrote a poem about the Netherlands. It’s all about how I took the train from Amsterdam to the sea. I wrote about the green fields and the men in thos...

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Mario Falls Into Pits So You Don’t Have to

Kate HollingsworthSeptember 3, 2025

She never liked Solitaire. Or Minesweeper. SkiFree. Remember SkiFree? A few pixels of a downhill skier, dodging trees, jumping rocks. You are racing ahead with ...

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The Judo King

Marcus SilcockAugust 15, 2025

We were in the hot spot. Father slipped out of the army. New life emerged in the new city. Skeleton trees. Buttery sunsets. When father found the new job at the...

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The Letterboxd Saviour of Cinema

Chris CorkerAugust 14, 2025

I knew that one day my contributions to cinema would be recognized. After a decade of stiff backs, sore buttocks and increasingly arthritic fingers, the time ha...

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5 Reasons to Rent This Apartment

Nora RayAugust 5, 2025

No Curse Tower 103993, Otherworldly Avenue 3 Monthly Rent: $4,000 Bedrooms: 2 You’ve spent weeks trying to find a safe and cozy apartment that would...

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Mars

Scott SeibelAugust 1, 2025

We watched the man at the park give in to the intrusive thoughts. “You, you, and you. In the middle,” he pointed at the larger boys. Then to the tiny ones, “...

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Skeleton inside me

Ella MaeJuly 31, 2025

Her bones clank beneath her skin, stiff and reluctant, each step heavier than the last. The air presses in, thick and suffocating, clinging to her, trying to ke...

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Queerbait

Sean DowieJuly 28, 2025

Fisherman Peter caught the gay merman with queerbait. Explicit gay content was illegal on land, even in pursuit of mermen flesh. Luckily, fishermen learned how...

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The Sweet Darkness

Lisa ThorntonJuly 24, 2025

Broken pens, Bic lighters, and sticky dimes and pennies floated up through the cushions of the sofa and pinched the thighs of the teenagers who were all suppose...

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sunrise

Ian liptakJuly 22, 2025

In Kenosha I fell in love with the sunrise. The lighter found my cigarette and the sugar free redbull was right beside me in the cupholder. The turf grass lawn ...

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Drug Dealing at the End of the World

Justin TaroliJuly 11, 2025

There are pigeons in Times Square. Not just strutting like usual—owning it. Middle of the road, puffed up like landlords. I watched one fly up and drop a chicke...

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Fluffle

Cheryl SnellJuly 10, 2025

She lifts the lucky rabbit’s foot on her keychain and rubs it with her thumb before opening the car door, when a colony of rabbits hops out from the bushes, eac...

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CRUSH DEPTH

Nathan SachaJuly 2, 2025

The ping isn’t a sound you hear. It’s a sound you feel, threading its way through drywall, like a signal searching for marrow. At first, it was just static: NOA...

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In the Wolf’s Rearview

Amelia EdwardsJune 30, 2025

On the purple highway, streetlights flicker a warning in Morse: the girl in the car is not in her body.   Unbuckle your seatbelt, you’re immortal – n...

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RE: Your Mars Artist Residency Early Termination Request

Grant FrazierJune 27, 2025

Dear Walter “Space Cowboy” Girkins,   We have received your request for early termination of your artist’s residency on Mars; your request has been d...

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