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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Fade into You

David ColodneyApril 3, 2025

          Ok, readers, between us, I joined & canceled Columbia House record club memberships & picked 12 CDs...

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Send it, Loser

Devin LeonardFebruary 19, 2025

She didn’t answer your calls two years ago and hasn’t reached out since, but what the hell, give it another whirl, you chump. One more time won’t hurt. You coul...

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Alt-Rock Coven

Katie StollmackFebruary 11, 2025

We take the bus like anyone else. We take the bus like you. The three of us sit in the back row, crowned in branches and buds, draped in intricate textiles--tex...

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Seen

Eoin NordmanFebruary 5, 2025

I’ve always hated my fat fucking balloon of a left thumb. Before I met Steve, I wondered if I’d ever find a man willing to love someone with such a sick deformi...

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Death App

David SchairerJanuary 30, 2025

Death never takes a holiday. And why should he? Surge pricing is amazing and there’s always a crunch around major events. Death wasn’t an all-powerful, immor...

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A Comprehensive Ranking System for Fiction Writers on X

Lars AltmanJanuary 24, 2025

Level 1: Friends, family, and crypto-bots as followers. You're trying to build a following of fellow writers who are themselves trying to build a following of f...

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Broken Things

Marcus FieldJanuary 22, 2025

The wheel is still there in the river. When I pluck the small plastic disk from the icy water a whimper turns my flashlight back to the house. The curtains trem...

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I fell in love with a Disney Adult

Anna DempseyJanuary 22, 2025

Hailing from Jacksonville, Florida was his first strike. Lucky for him, I’d recently downloaded a meditation app called Shhhh which told me to accept every pers...

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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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