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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Your Funeral Was Fun

Natalie NeeJune 25, 2025

The ground sparkled like a Twilight vampire before you had yelled, “are you serious?” opening night, making the entire theater laugh. Edwardian snow felt like t...

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The Sword Swallower’s Fatal Malady

Ági BoriJune 20, 2025

The first signs were somewhat easy to ignore. Scratchy throat, hoarse voice, slight difficulty swallowing. The show must go on. But as the small tears and burni...

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She’s a Cigarette. She’s a Cheeseburger.

Mitchell NyJune 19, 2025

I choked - she floated in, and oxygen was a BIC lighter I'd lent. In a pile somewhere, lost with a dozen others. The gallery and all its patrons: gorgeously hau...

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The First Independent Bookstore in Las Vegas

Binh DoJune 18, 2025

I land in Las Vegas, a city where I know nobody, for a residency. It is a hundred degrees, even with the sun disappearing behind the hotels and casinos, and my ...

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In Just Spring

Jeffrey HermannJune 17, 2025

Bleeding from the lip after being punched in the mouth I go talk to my financial advisor. That’s going to cost you, he says. We look at the spreadsheets. Up is ...

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The Lyricist

Sean DowieJune 12, 2025

A vampire bit me while I was listening to Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso”. I was so wrapped up in the song that I didn’t notice until a few seconds later. “Ow,”...

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The Main Attraction

D.L. StilleJune 10, 2025

The first time someone died at Fantasy Fair, no one thought to check near Old Cassie. She was little more than an embellished archway, after all: something peop...

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Transvestigating

Danielle BarrJune 6, 2025

Eventually they start selling dowsing rods in the mall kiosks, right next to the Piercing Pagoda. Parallel for male, crossed rods for female- get it, crossed, l...

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Advice For When The Mistress Tells The Wife

Gavin MillerMay 30, 2025

Don’t confess. Let the little fucker watch Dave Portnoy gamble on the family iPad. Have a canned margarita. Have two. Go for a cruise in the ’97. Roll the windo...

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The (Adjective) Telemarketer Stuck in a Mad Lib

Will MusgroveMay 28, 2025

Selling (plural noun) over the phone, the telemarketer reads from an assigned (adjective) script, so whether it’s you, the (noun) filling in this mad lib, or hi...

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Stomach People

Jared FembleauxMay 26, 2025

They first knocked on Tuesday, softly, like fingernails on Tupperware. Marta was hunched over her kitchen table eating cold oatmeal with a chipped spoon. She...

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Two Stories

Steve GergleyMay 13, 2025

1.Snow Plow I’m plowing the slushy snow when my snow plow bursts into flames. It’s February. It’s my third day on the job. It’s a beautiful and disgusting wint...

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The Cat in the Vending Machine

Mathieu ParsyMay 9, 2025

2:17 a.m., Tokyo. The train station is empty. Fluorescent lights buzz overhead, the air thick with the low pulse of night, everything washed in greenish light. ...

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Contents of decedent’s pockets were as follows:

Jeff KennedyMay 2, 2025

Pocket knife Rabbit’s foot 3 gold fillings (origin unknown) Key chain w/ 2 keys (unidentified) Greyhound bus ticket (destination Lansing, MI) ...

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The Time Traveling Comedian

Samuel EdwardsApril 30, 2025

On a quiet and deserted beach at the end of time, the Time Traveling Comedian walks alone. A grandfather clock sits half-submerged in the sand, crooked and c...

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Losing My Virginity in Roku City

E.F. FlynnApril 29, 2025

We don't notice King Kong atop the tallest skyscraper or Godzilla emerging from the ocean. The world is ending, but you and I are climaxing – first you, then me...

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Grace

Chris CallardApril 28, 2025

He arrived with the food, she wiped hot sauce and shards of yellow cheese from the table. Nearby, a family said grace over burritos and sodas. “I can’t belie...

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DAY PASS

Cameron DarcApril 28, 2025

I’d gotten out of the clinic on a day pass, and Marie came to pick me up and drive me to her apartment. The sky looked more tired than I was, musty white. A sky...

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Take His Advice

Brittany DeitchApril 21, 2025

There was a moment where his neighbor walked up to him and I just sat on the phone listening to him engage that way, the way I missed badly. Presence flooded me...

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McCauley Will Always Be The Best Culkin

Alex RostApril 17, 2025

These voices inside of me are really going at it today, like I’m overhearing parts of myself talking shit about one another, and when they notice I’m listening ...

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The Letter ‘O’ Is Haunting Me

Aileen O’DowdApril 14, 2025

This morning, I woke up in a bowl of Cheerios. Little round ‘O’s strangling my fingers and toes. Weaving through my hair. On the tip of my nose. I dunked myself...

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The Canvas

Jori al JiranApril 13, 2025

He ground his wife’s bones to use as paint. He could not fathom why she remained dead—strange, strange indeed. He tilted his head; his fingers, not trembling—y...

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