An Incident at The Vladi-Schwarz Sixty-Four Squares Championship

Kausik KskSeptember 17, 2020

Tabakovic’s gaze bores through Dashem’s head. The rapping of Dashem’s knuckles on the table intensifies. Would Dashem restore the lost glory to Vladivania? How ...

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The Name You Asked For

Ernesto ReyesSeptember 8, 2020

When you’re born, your Name will be waiting for you, standing by your father. You’ll quickly be able to recognize your Name, even if you don’t know how to spell...

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Three Blurbs

Zac SmithSeptember 7, 2020

1. Drunk and despairing, I plucked this book from a low-hanging branch. I bit into its tender flesh and let the inky juice drip down my chin. I stumbled back...

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NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY

John BanningSeptember 4, 2020

I was in the hotel room and had managed to create a wedge of space between the bed and the nightstand, about a metre wide, and I had bunched myself into this bo...

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That Wolf Motherfucker

D.T. RobbinsAugust 31, 2020

It pretty much started with him howling during orgasm on top of his girlfriend one night. After that, he grew a mustache. He’d never had a mustache. Thick red f...

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Upon Not Being Diagnosed a Wizard as You’d Hoped

Renee AgatepAugust 27, 2020

So you’ve been questioned as to whether or not you possess magic power! Here are the diagnostic criteria for determining if you are, in fact, a wizard. Symp...

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Likes

Yash SeyedbagheriAugust 25, 2020

I milk likes by posting comments on YouTube. I regurgitate Tropic Thunder quotes. Bloviate about Rasputin. Make comments about friendship being like politics, r...

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The Credits Are Rolling, Aren’t They?

Daedalus FitzgeraldAugust 20, 2020

The worst part about killing yourself is the urge to die a death that’s yours- as if the method of your exit will affect the tone of your absence.   ...

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Friday Morning, 9:36 a.m.

Jennifer DickinsonAugust 18, 2020

After the tenth shot, Giant said we had to run. “Fuck no,” I said. This wasn’t what we’d practiced. I pictured Laura and Quinn and Danisha barricaded in Ms. ...

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Pizza Friday

Davon LoebAugust 14, 2020

Later they said this is where it started, when he became a bad kid; but really, he was just pissed his square pizza was cold and that it flopped between his han...

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You’re The Most Entertaining Person I’ve Ever Met

Torey AkersJuly 7, 2020

Rhea sits in a weathered Adirondack chair outside her trailer home in Novelty, Ohio, the only hotel-free location in the whole of Russell Township. The Titans a...

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Mechanisms of Defense

Nina Shevzov-ZebrunMay 27, 2020

  Altruism The rain is unexpected, so violent the sun chokes. A stranger gives away her umbrella.   Humor (warning: medical, probably not ...

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Hairy Monster

Ben UmayamMay 4, 2020

“You very handsome now.  You look very cool.   You look 26, not 62!”  Cheryl laughed her low, deep laugh.  If Cher had a Malaysian counterpart, she would sound ...

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WAS IT SOMETHING I WROTE?

Colin NewtonApril 16, 2020

It's been six weeks, two days and 17 hours since we last spoke. I know I shouldn't be thinking about you as often as I am. I certainly shouldn't be keeping trac...

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Tongues

Yasha CastsApril 13, 2020

There’s a trend here. She says 5, I say 6:30; she asks where I am, I say, “coming;” she stares at her watch, I arrive frenzied. I voiced my excuse for that part...

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Sci-Fi Saturday

Charles GroselApril 4, 2020

Past the point of no return something always goes terribly wrong—an exploding oxygen tank, an errant asteroid, sabotage by the Iago-like stowaway—and the spacec...

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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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Hospital Visit

Kevin SterneMarch 18, 2020

My girl and I visit my dad in the hospital. He's watching this show called Man vs. Bear.   This accountant who did an Iron Man is tug-of-warring with...

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What

Joshua HebburnMarch 16, 2020

“What,” he said. “Nothing,” she said, “I didn't say anything.” One of them had lied and the other knew....

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The Getaway Car

Bethany MangleMarch 12, 2020

You got a fast car. I remember the day you came home with it, the way you sat at the kitchen counter and spun the keys around your index finger by the metal rin...

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Thoughts After Being Struck by Lightning

Jeana MahanMarch 10, 2020

It’s a weird feeling being dead. When the lightning hit, physically my body went down, but a part of me went up. I begin to float, like a balloon filled with...

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The Things We’ll Remember

Nick OlsonFebruary 28, 2020

  We'll remember the small moments that seemed not to matter at the time. We'll remember the dust motes caught in after school sunbeams, cigarette smell...

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A KIND OF DIS/ORDER: A MANIFESTO

Rachel OestreichFebruary 25, 2020

Don’t tell anyone you’re hungry Understand it’s not about not eating, it’s about not eating when you’re alone Frame your isolation as dedication Go...

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Unhappy Years

Yash SeyedbagheriFebruary 25, 2020

New Year’s Eve. Wife Betty and I consume crisp champagne, year before us nascent and shapely. It’s the year of taming bills and wounding student loans. The year...

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An Exit Strategy

Erin KirshFebruary 25, 2020

When Candice died, her garden struggled on until the frost came. After that, it didn't return. Candice’s basement tenants were kind to us, their new, reluctant ...

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Novel by the Author We Both Like

Taara KhalilnajiFebruary 17, 2020

Scotty gives me the book on our fourth date. He's written a note on the back cover, mentioning my writing and how this novel about the end of a relationship, wr...

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Frida Kahlo

Andrés PiñaFebruary 14, 2020

On the canvas she paints verbs, like red flowers. ...

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When Your Boyfriend Says He’s The Joker and You’re Harley Quinn

Candace HartsuykerFebruary 12, 2020

When your new boyfriend says he’s The Joker and you’re Harley Quinn, this means there are rules you are expected to follow. A uniform is required. That means, a...

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The Car at the End of the World

Elliot HarperFebruary 12, 2020

The worst thing about the world ending is that I can’t move that car off the front lawn. Bloody thing has been parked there for months. It must have been left b...

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When I Moved Away

Jack C. BuckFebruary 10, 2020

I would stop at gas stations along the way to buy postcards to mail back east to my friends. My first year away I was basically broke, getting by on 32 hours a ...

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