HOW MANY CLOWNS WILL IT TAKE TO STOP STEPHEN KING?

Sara Kachelman & Lam HoOctober 10, 2017

A group of unemployed clowns attend a therapy session. 6 clowns were banned from public parks, 4 clowns were affected by NEA budget cuts, and 7 clowns were jump...

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George

J.C.D KerwinOctober 5, 2017

George doesn’t eat anything except Cheerios. He says the rings remind him of Infinity and how the world continues to move even when you don’t want it to. He fin...

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Dredger

Jerrod SchwarzSeptember 14, 2017

“My brother and I started a sandbagging company. He handles the bagging and selling. I do all of the sand finding. The gathering.” His date moves her fork in...

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We Will Set Anything on Fire

Jules ArcherSeptember 13, 2017

The night they make us throw our words into the fire we have nothing but smiles behind our hands. The torn sheets of Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary include a p...

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If You Want the Rest of Your Shit, You’ll Find it in the Starbucks Tip Jar

Christina DalcherAugust 30, 2017

This includes the pennies and nickels and dimes you hoarded when we first married and you made more money than I did and told me don’t touch those they’re mine;...

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CARE AND CARE ALONE

JoAnna NovakAugust 22, 2017

Felicia heard the birds before four and her hair was still wet from the evening’s douse. She had her mind’s eye on waking Rupert, but he was on a bunk in anothe...

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Doppelganger

Michael FournierAugust 8, 2017

I met my doppelgänger at a bar. We dressed the same. We ate the same dish. We drank the same drink. We were born different towns with the same name. We travell...

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IF SHIA LABEOUF STARRED In MY LIFE

Arah KoJuly 25, 2017

He rolled up in a tank while I paced outside the shrink’s office. You know what I’m gonna say? Yeah, I know what you’re gonna say.  Just do— I said ...

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Help

Daniel HandJuly 20, 2017

You are holding a small sign. It says, Help. You scream, Help. A spider comes. Thank you, it says, that’s what I have been trying to say. You hold the sign up a...

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On a Book Entitled Lolita

Meg HallJune 14, 2017

Lolita: (n). 1. A book narrated by a pedophile written by a Russian 2. The book you threw at your boyfriend because it happened to be available and hefty, and t...

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Worcester College

Kat LewisMay 24, 2017

0th Week: Land in a country too green. Hear accents sing. Listen to your own clang like dropped pans on checkered floors. 1st Week: Cross streets. Look right. ...

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Portrait of the Arsonist as Preexisting Condition

Laura PageMay 9, 2017

Is the 30-something male caught having sex with a mannequin head in an elevator a preexisting condition that caused him to then set the head on fire? Is it a co...

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Everyone You’ve Ever Known is in The Dollar Store

Ardith BravenecMay 4, 2017

There’s your kindergarten teacher who saw you bite that other sticky-eyed kid over a Vienna sausage about the same size as the kid’s bloated fingers. There’s...

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Ocean Culture Mocha

S. KayApril 12, 2017

I get a mocha to go, taking it to a Pacific park, thinking about food and art as I pass a fish taco stand's orca mural and a t-shirt shop.   Flowers ...

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Brooke Davis knows her worth and you should too

Madeline AnthesMarch 22, 2017

So listen up. If we’re going to date I need you to understand Brooke Davis. Because she is me and I am her and if you don’t support her you don’t support me. ...

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The Belief Space

Soren JamesMarch 21, 2017

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dreamstop and dream journey

Logan EllisMarch 14, 2017

dreamstop At the four way stop of your dream, a version of you and a long time no see friend are chatting across cars, heads spilling like jugs of formaldehy...

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Carnivore Morning Breath

Kathryn McMahonMarch 8, 2017

  The dinosaurs are shy and fairly small. My T-rex waits in the foyer for the mail as the Stegosaurus munches aloe vera in the kitchen. In the garage, t...

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Special Cargo

S. KayMarch 1, 2017

Soft grey dusk slowly fades into the dark depths of the ocean cove. A lone motorboat speeds across choppy water.   The Canadian boat pulls up to a pr...

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A Very Small Cockroach Negotiates With God

Dylan Jones HintonFebruary 21, 2017

Look, it’s not that I’m not grateful to be here, I am, I get it, I am. It’s just that I don’t think I’m a good fit. Oh, yeah, ha ha, I see how that’s funny, I’m...

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Infested

Kelsey DeanFebruary 14, 2017

The butterflies are becoming a problem. At this point they’ve reproduced several times, and my organs are littered with dead cocoon matter. I’m feeling quite cl...

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Bank Vault Dinner Party

Austin Sanchez-MoranFebruary 9, 2017

I walk into an underground bank vault where my parents have planned a dinner party. There is a long oak table with 3 chairs on both of the long sides of the tab...

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BLUE RING

Therese CalegariJanuary 26, 2017

A circle moment as big as me. I step in and out. Each undulation hula hoop round, a frisk, a foot, a wiggling toe. Then breakfast, a thimble's eye of dough to m...

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New Hear Style

Grant PriceJanuary 24, 2017

—Look at this. —What? —This advert. ‘Stylish, compact hearing aid remote control.’ —So? — Don’t you see? “Let me have a go on your stylish remote co...

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The Lego Hotel for Idle Thought

Caleb PainterJanuary 19, 2017

I never once thought of my mind as a place where thoughts would come and go until the day I needed to illuminate my “No-Vacancy” sign. I decided to build an exp...

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The Cloud Is (after Aeneid IV)

Josh BoardmanJanuary 11, 2017

A place out west. Google buys the countryside. Here’s how it must have happened: excavators rode at full night with bronze shovels to dig the foundation, strew ...

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An Essay on Detachment

Reggie MillsJanuary 5, 2017

I. Plasticity —So you’re saying you do think that’s how it should be. Is that what you’re saying? —No yeah yeah yeah, that is what I’m saying. Well I mean...

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Hypnotized with Motion

Jane-Rebecca CannarellaDecember 13, 2016

I didn’t suck on any honeysuckle this year. And am reminded of this loss while looking at unremarkable green bushes with clusters of golden-y flowers that frame...

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Changing into a Comfortable Sweater to Improve Sleep

Nick AltiDecember 8, 2016

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The Interview

Samuel SmithNovember 24, 2016

He readjusted his tie for the third time in as many minutes and shrugged the shoulders of a suit that formed a near-perfect square on his lanky frame. Attemptin...

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