Mixed Media

Emily HooverAugust 20, 2023

I drive to Riverside City College to give Dr. Lamoreaux my Life Drawing I portfolio. I imagine her sitting in her office, the citron light shining on her face j...

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Lost in Place

Ann WeilAugust 17, 2023

I flop onto the couch, flip on the TV. Too early for RuPaul, so I click on a remake of Lost in Space, this one starring yours truly as The Robot, always waving ...

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How Women Describe Me on Dates

Lane ChasekAugust 16, 2023

After the theater darkened, she leaned toward me and whispered, “You have a mercenary personality.” On the drive back to her place, I couldn’t stop thinking ...

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Morning

Benjamin NiespodzianyAugust 16, 2023

He appraised the stainless trinkets slinked atop her sidewalk blanket. She indexed the display. She explained to him the limits of leather. Various leathers, et...

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Kitchen Qualms

Nida MubarakiJuly 26, 2023

“We are eating butter pasta,” I announce with a brevity that is beyond me. By “we” I mean me, and this declaration came with no more than giving a sardonic nod ...

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Chaos Theory

James CallanJuly 20, 2023

In Jurassic Park, when Jeff Goldblum takes Laura Dern’s hand into his own, he deposits a droplet from his drink into the groove of her knuckles --an exchange of...

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I wake up with a new face every Tuesday

Michael DegnanJuly 20, 2023

I miss my face, the one my parents gave me. It was the color of oatmeal and had an awkward smile that never lined up with my eyes. No one ever knew if I was hap...

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Night Pie

Shane KowalskiJuly 9, 2023

Both of us are still up. Why can’t we go to sleep? Who knows. But somebody made pie! Did you make the pie? Well, I didn’t make the pie. I guess it’s true what t...

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On Resting at the Bottom of Cannaregio Canal

Madeline GrahamJuly 5, 2023

Some might think it dull, lying here on the mud, under feathery sediment and meters of silty water in only the few weak rays of sun that pierce through. But I f...

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Yearbook Predictions

Celia BistiJune 19, 2023

She will lie in wait, hiding her talents… looking like “the innocent flower, but be(ing) the serpent under’t.” She will become a spy of the International Women’...

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Echoes Across the Ocean

Alex RomeroMay 31, 2023

i. I SIT HERE on the damp concrete along the Seine gaping at the Eiffel Tower. Like me, she searches the night for glimpses of you. She waves her light around u...

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College and Collage

Ivy GrimesMay 24, 2023

  College   That one Thanksgiving, we wanted to reuse our Halloween costumes, so you went as a Christiana Ricci and I went as Beverly D'Angelo. W...

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

Ashley BereschMay 21, 2023

Swerved to miss a rabbit and missed. Three-point turn, almost not enough shoulder and almost tipping the car. The highway empty except for a deer in the pine st...

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DEAD CERAMIC

Jamie Anthony LouisMay 15, 2023

A broken plate lies between us. I say, “It’s not my fault.” You say, “You should have put it away earlier.” I look at the shattered off-white ceramic piec...

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Danny Boy

James CallanMay 5, 2023

When my wife and I considered a name for our son, deliberating between the traditional, the lyrical, the new age unique, we ultimately decided on Finn one week ...

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Time Travel

Aiden Grace SmithApril 25, 2023

“What happened to the bottle opener?” I ask. “What happened to the murder hornets?” he counters.  My partner has a theory that 2020 is proof that time travel...

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The Worst Downhill Cheese Wheel Chaser in Town

Caleb BetheaApril 19, 2023

His theory. Just like time and space, sex appeal works as a building block in the universe. Athletes funnel this energy into prowess on the court, the field, do...

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After watching the finale of Daisy Jones & The 6 on Prime Video

David ColodneyApril 19, 2023

Last night’s mist drifts from my eyes as the Today show plays a clip of Daisy Jones & The 6 performing on SNL like a band called Daisy Jones & The 6 WOU...

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Suds N’ Duds

Kayleigh ShoenApril 10, 2023

Aaron likes to gamble, but casinos don’t appeal to me. I’ve spent too much time here, feeding bills into machines with handwritten “costumers only” signs. (My r...

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Winter Driving Dreaming by J. F. Gleeson

J. F. GleesonApril 3, 2023

We have gone on a drive because Grandmother has been drinking. The drinking this time meant that Mum said please can you tell us when you’ve been drinking becau...

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Succession

Sabrina HicksFebruary 26, 2023

We played hide-and-go-seek in each other’s homes: dinner parties, backyard barbecues, white elephant gift exchanges. We’d steal bits of towering deserts, macaro...

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Your Home

Tim FrankFebruary 23, 2023

Your mum makes me wade through the floorboards with a dustpan and brush like I’m paddling into the sea—she doesn’t even care that I’m asleep. No one in this hou...

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I Am A Trainwreck Actress’s Vagina

Emma BrankinFebruary 19, 2023

I am a trainwreck actress’s vagina and I just thought I’d say hello. You seemed keen to see me, the throb of your flash piercing me with its up-skirted glare. Y...

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An 80 Proof Love of Destruction and Other Co-Dependent Behavior

Margo GriffinJanuary 23, 2023

Beth and Malcolm broke up right after their tumble from the top of Beth's second-floor landing. Malcolm only remembered waking up at the bottom of her stairs, o...

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Unlikely Scenes at the End of the World

James CallanJanuary 17, 2023

As I stood in the path of Neptune’s wrath, stared into the wide, angry eyes of the end of the world, such unlikely things popped into my mind. Scenes from movie...

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How to Tell a Polish Joke

Annie BerkeJanuary 2, 2023

Over an uneventful family dinner, decide to tell your parents a blonde joke you heard at school.   “That one is as old as I am. But back then, it was...

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The way you wear the corpses in your hair

Caleb BetheaDecember 30, 2022

Hammocked in your curls. Little dead humans, embalmed with nothing but shampoo, linseed oil conditioner. Even their teeth are cleaned with scalp-curing properti...

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Human Trash

Angela LiuDecember 21, 2022

In my second year of graduate school, there was a couple that would sometimes have sex in the printing workshop after midnight. The man had bought a foldable fu...

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Carl Jung Would Love This If He Was Still Kicking

Bruce ReisnerDecember 19, 2022

1. One thing about here.  You can see for miles.   Civilization landed on the Appalachian hills like a bird dropping.  Like bird shit falling miles downward an...

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Manchester Gate Apartments

Monique QuintanaDecember 12, 2022

Tino lived in an old blue stucco apartment complex just off Blackstone Avenue, one of Fresno's most extended and busiest avenues. It was also next door to a fun...

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