The Story of the Now Defunct Chimpy’s Pizza Safari at a Strip Mall in Libertyville, Illinois

Austin Sanchez-MoranJuly 7, 2026

In the beginning of summer, there was a shortage of childcare workers in the area and working parents had few options. So local businesses brainstormed and deci...

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COORS-MAN

Levi Walker PolzinJune 29, 2026

Coors was my father's beer of choice through most of my childhood. He was a “Coors-man,” as they used to say.  Cans of Coors still linger in my periphery, li...

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Profanity for Humanity

Jean-Luke SwanepoelJune 23, 2026

The flyer was stapled to a telephone pole and read PROFANITY FOR HUMANITY—JOIN THE CAUSE! There were a dozen tearable strips at the bottom, and each held the na...

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Danny’s Mother

Caroline KahlenbergJune 17, 2026

They’re way at the back of Wild Child Museum, in a windowless room decorated with leprechauns and dinosaurs. The kindergarteners squawk happy birthday and clamo...

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The Only Veterinarian I Know

Richard PounderJune 11, 2026

Anne, Sorry. You're the only veterinarian I know.  Here’s why I delivered you this bird. Every Sunday I fill a burlap sack with DVDs from our collectio...

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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 neighbors don’t ask more...

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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. It’s down a cobblesto...

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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, but I hang up and col...

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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 few stand proudly star...

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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. There were no trumpets ...

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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 wanted to be his frie...

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Nine Truths and a Lie

Jennifer FoxApril 20, 2026

The bathroom mirror always fogs with someone else’s breath, even when I’m alone and the ghosts have gone to bed.  There’s a patch in the garden where I burie...

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Divination

Ashley Neary-GreenhouseApril 17, 2026

I read an article in Texas Monthly about a man who was mauled by Waylon, a 5-year-old pet warthog whom he had raised since birth. Waylon was sweet and docile up...

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The Great God Nicotine

Zach LowApril 6, 2026

It’s out there somewhere, you know:  that last pack of Cool Cucumber Juul Pods.  Collecting dust in a storage unit -- if it even can get dusty in one of t...

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Such Late Night Radio

Travis FlattApril 2, 2026

“Let's Ride!” shouts Phantom Racer. He leaps through the Barracuda’s driver side window. The sun-sticky seat leather squelches against his invisibility bodysuit...

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No One Has Spoken To You This Directly

Sean EnnisMarch 26, 2026

The world  crackles  and feeds back with mystery on a walk with Apple the dog. Even the tiny microphones and cameras hidden in the shrubs don’t bum us out. I’m ...

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I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY

Robert John MillerFebruary 26, 2026

The doctor, the ENT, is so far 10 minutes late, so I’m just sitting in a high-backed black chair, waiting. It feels suave, like a private salon. A huddle of ton...

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Farewell to Regale Park

T.S. CarneyFebruary 11, 2026

It has been a few years since I moved out of Regale Park. I still miss the location—the apartment tucked next to a synagogue and a Catholic Shrine that served t...

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Jack the Ripper

Sean DowieFebruary 10, 2026

There’s been a seismic shift in the world. I’m not ripping many movie theater tickets anymore. Working at AMC was a dream. My manager called me a rip-roaring g...

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When we h(a)unted

Rachel Abbey McCaffertyFebruary 4, 2026

We stalked the halls of dead malls, ghosts before our time. We lived by sense, taste and smell and sight, by instinct, lust and desire and rage. We were not ...

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A Word of Caution Before Your Tonsil Surgery

Ági BoriJanuary 21, 2026

Since you’ve opted to have awake tonsil surgery to avoid general anesthesia due to your existing heart condition, the removal of your tonsils shouldn’t take lon...

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Sext to the Man 30 Years My Senior Whom I’m Strangely Attracted to Though I Do Not Have Daddy Issues

Tracy DubinJanuary 19, 2026

I need to tell you that I do treat sex as a transactional human commodity because I am a capitalist, not a feminist, I am a sex capitalist; but, I wanted to hav...

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It Happened Again

Sam SmallJanuary 13, 2026

I don’t know how I came to you, maybe like a ghost, all fuzzy and plucked out of context and ringing your doorbell at 3 in the morning. There you were: a raised...

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Nothing Special Happened

Patrick G. RolandJanuary 5, 2026

He whispered through the phone, “I need you to come with me.” Ten years of silence, and I turned the volume down anyway. “Please,” he said. It was 7 p.m. My son...

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My Career Has Croaked: Oversaturation in the Anthropomorphic Frog Fiction Market

Chris DolanJanuary 1, 2026

All the best anthropomorphic frog stories have already been written, yet I carry on. My favorite was the one about the would-be Olympic decathlete who unsucc...

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someday I will eat dirt

Ian liptakDecember 29, 2025

I planted tobacco seeds in a park by the Pike River. Kenosha is an A Marlboro Red. I smoke American spirit light blues. Pavement in the alley cracks. The dum...

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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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