Speculative Music

Jason M. ThornberryJanuary 3, 2025

It begins as burning scrape: plectrums plucking rusty nerve endings. Pulses trace my gait, recalling cadence, mimicking steps when I pause to examine the ground...

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The Cavernous Struggle Inside My Mouth

Ági BoriDecember 30, 2024

A ballooning sensation lurks within me day and night; it flows into my dreams; it brings with it vertigo and anxiety; it lies in ambush until its exasperating n...

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Blah Blah Blah

Laura ShellDecember 23, 2024

He posed the question... Can you write a story called "Blah Blah Blah"? I hadn't a clue. What would it be about? I said the words aloud. They tasted like cherri...

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Hungry Man

James CallanDecember 16, 2024

  Ambiguity excites me when it comes to would-be lovers, any old stranger who happens to pass close enough to touch, sometimes smell, but not to pinpoin...

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21 Jump Street

Phoebe LuDecember 9, 2024

When NBA players get old or break an ankle, the time then comes to learn Chinese, because the Shanghai Sharks will pay for play, I don’t know how much but it is...

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The Only Time My Brother Called to Invite Me to His Wedding

Ada PeloniaNovember 22, 2024

Hey, remember when you’d laugh your heart out with my silly jokes and ask Mom to slice your cookie in half so I’d have more than yours because you knew I loved ...

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Why I Love The Little Man So Much

Jack KellyNovember 15, 2024

He fits right in my pocket, snuggled against my wallet, keys, and phone. Sometimes, out of comfort or exhaustion, he takes a short nap and I feel a spritely pat...

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I start my day by reading an article about climate change,

Rachel Abbey McCaffertyNovember 13, 2024

and then I apply sunscreen, SPF 120, and get in my boat to row to work. The sun shines harshly, the former shifting of seasons done, leaves permanently burnt on...

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Autobiography

Eliot S. KuNovember 11, 2024

I started in the basal layers of the skin, putting in my time. As a dutiful worker, I eventually made my way up, erupting through the skin surface like an ugly...

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Outsourcing Reputable Foods For My Diners As I’ll Be Damned If I Were To Waste My Own Time Raising Daphnia.

Aled TurnerNovember 5, 2024

I'd wanted to acquire live foods I could reproduce for my diners whom I'd housed in a separate aquarium in the living-room. I'd wanted to acquire live foods so ...

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You Are a Shadow

Nicholas Wilder FormanOctober 31, 2024

New vampire sit on the ledge from their third story house window. South central. There are more of those than you know and they’re all beautiful. Something abou...

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VAMPIRE

Sage EarlyOctober 30, 2024

I’m running from something. I don’t remember what. But I know that I can’t stop because sticky black panic is boiling in my chest, the froth bubbling up into my...

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Jim the Hoarder

Laura ShellOctober 11, 2024

There you are. Never married. Never had a girlfriend for more than three days. Seriously. You're a hoarder. You buy three of everything. Kitchenware. Clothing. ...

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Unlikable Female Protagonists

Jay McKenzieOctober 4, 2024

There’s Lola who climbs out of windows to dance on tables with boys. There’s Jarrah who drinks vodka alone until she throws up. There’s Yuna who carves ruby sle...

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Night Hunter

Mark IfansonSeptember 26, 2024

She stalked her prey in the thick and humid summer night air. Having long-ago foresworn blood meals, she roamed the countryside, relying more on scent than on t...

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Pspspspsps

Steve GergleySeptember 20, 2024

Each night, while working the night shift at Hot Topic, my wife and I discuss our idea to open our own store for cats called Pspspspsps. This is our grand dream...

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World’s Greatest Dad

Samuel SmithSeptember 19, 2024

Kevin ambles through reception holding a box under one arm. With his receding hairline and oversized suit, he resembles a turtle. He bobs his head at the lady b...

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Postcard from Bummerville, USA

Elena EnderSeptember 10, 2024

Population: me There are many things about this town I don’t love, one of them being the whole ghosting of it all. I’m the only one here. It feels like every...

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Review: The Hands are Coming Too.

Lindsay ComerSeptember 5, 2024

Film Weekly Editor’s Note – After much discussion with my fellow editors, we have decided to run this final review from our long-standing reviewer Professor Ffi...

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Plant-Based Diet

Rufus GallupSeptember 1, 2024

Since the climate crisis shifted from slow-motion-train-wreck-speed to everything-being-on-fire-all-of-the-time-speed, we’ve been experimenting with some biodyn...

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The Pop Star’s Post-Breakup (?) Viral Music Video

Tina S. ZhuAugust 21, 2024

Steady bass over a sample of Bill Nye the Science Guy saying “universe” distorted beyond recognition. A frog balloon in a grocery store. The pop star dancing wi...

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I Am the Elevator You’re Stuck Inside, and Trust Me, I Don’t Want to Be Here Either

Ryan Bender-MurphyJuly 24, 2024

What the hell! You’re supposed to be having a full-blown existential crisis! Not playing solitaire while you wait for the repairman! I’m bored as fuck! If on...

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Your New Matches on Tinder

Adam McOmberJuly 23, 2024

A guy with brown hair. A guy with blond hair. A guy from down the street. You’ve seen him at the grocery store. A lawyer from Pasadena. A narcissist. An android...

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When Terri Locked Me Out of Our Doomsday Bunker

Mike ItayaJuly 22, 2024

Terri, six months ago I went on a whiskey bender and you fled our Big Bad Marriage into the doomsday bunker. I don’t want to “gloss over” here (my therapist,...

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A Letter to Peter Blume

Chad SullivanJuly 12, 2024

Blume– If only rafters buckled more easily. If only his studio had been fireproof and Agnes faithful. If only automobiles didn’t accordion against walls and ...

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Control

Terena Elizabeth BellJuly 11, 2024

for Rose & Buddy Fenster   “Of course he can do something. That doesn’t mean he’s going to.” That’s what her husband had said while they were ge...

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If San Antonio is My Final Resting Place, Just Kick Me Over the County Line

V Garmon KoskiJuly 8, 2024

  Stars and other bullshit swirl above, overdone as only the day-in-day-out night sky can be. The most hauntingly trite backdrop to meet your end beneat...

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Patience (n): the ability to tolerate delay with grace

Jennifer LaiJuly 3, 2024

c’mon lady scan faster chop chop this ain’t a talk show damn that’s a lot of cat food wow look at the lines sheesh good thing I got here early ha sucks to be th...

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Dragon Ball Z Slow Cooker / I’ll Bet $100

Luc MJuly 1, 2024

There's so many different sounds on the train i can barely take it, theres like a constant ambient droning and sharp sounds cutting through, shouts that are jus...

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Queer devil is on his way to eat at a restaurant alone

Chel BuffreyJune 25, 2024

My tail is tucked awkwardly in my jeans, taped to leg for security. This is so I don’t draw attention in public and I’m not wearing my cap that says ‘Your Brand...

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