Dead Ends

Audrey Valentine WeisburdJanuary 28, 2026

The road went on forever, until it shrunk and trapped us in. Jason’s truck maneuvered through the vast and winding roads of Central Jersey. People say that Cent...

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Public Relations

Wade HarrisJanuary 26, 2026

The UH-60 Crash Hawks chopped out a sound so deafening it offended god. In our headsets our pilot switched on Dream Theater’s Pull Me Under to drone out the bla...

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Fatty Carbonara, Sloth

Eli S. EvansJanuary 23, 2026

Fatty Carbonara (he wasn’t fat, that just happened to be his name) stepped out of the shower bright and early one morning to find a little heap of dark green le...

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Norwood Park Novena

M. Ursula ChmielJanuary 12, 2026

 Nine days before they uncovered the bodies, I watched Silvia Esposito perform her family’s late August ritual. In a one-piece Wonder Woman swimsuit, she stompe...

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Mind Trip of the Orthodox Son

Frederick SchardtJanuary 8, 2026

Poor boarding school boy Gil Freeman awakes after a long horrible night spent in a tired and dreary Scottish hospital. He is alone in the desolation of the mind...

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If You Know, You Know

Coleman McCannJanuary 7, 2026

I’m in the kitchen. Swanson is locked in the cellar. He can’t be trusted. He cries fake tears and tells me his wife and kid must be worried sick. A wreck, he sa...

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Personal Reverse Jesus

Wade HarrisJanuary 6, 2026

For some reason, I felt better after a beer for breakfast. Bacon helped. Eggs, too. What didn’t was the seven-foot-tall AI nightmare glaring at me from the corn...

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Person Heaven

Andrew Graham MartinJanuary 2, 2026

St. Peter will look a little like your seventh-grade biology teacher, the one who had a green parrotlet he kept as a pet, which would cuddle up in his long gray...

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Ten ways space wants to kill you

Anthony VerdiDecember 31, 2025

I feel the nail start to give and I edge my front tooth in further. I press down and hear the clip. Shit, a pain shoots through my cuticle. I went too far. It's...

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Corporations!

Sean DowieDecember 31, 2025

I love corporations. When I play video games, I imagine my character as a badass CEO. He’s wearing a suit, mowing down enemies without remorse, sweating from hi...

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The Tarot Of Organ Removal

Jacquie VelascoDecember 30, 2025

The last thing the anesthesiologist said to me was "Did you watch the newest season of White Lotus?" I was fast asleep before I could tell her that Shane fro...

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Mr. Gruesome

Jacob VausDecember 24, 2025

i. They call me Gruesome, and I goad them on. “Yes,” I say. “Fantastic,” I say. “Call me Mister Gruesome.” Have you seen me? It was an ad they had m...

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Straight from the Tiger’s Mouth

Shayla FrandsenDecember 23, 2025

“You really don’t think so?” Bit of an attitude, as I asked this, managing only a polite glance at the capuchins all twitchy and jumpy behind the glass, scra...

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I Tried To Obey Every Self Help Video In My Feed For One Day

Daniel O. BaileyDecember 18, 2025

I wake up to the sound of my phone having a seizure on the nightstand. Notifications. DMs. Three different apps telling me it is time to check in with my fee...

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Guitar Hero

Vanessa MeyerDecember 17, 2025

“You will never speak the language of music.” You said that to me once, while strumming your guitar. How pretentious I thought. How rude. Even in my early 20...

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Fish Tank People

Arthur MandalDecember 16, 2025

My father loves me very much. I want to start with that because it’s the most important thing in the story. We live in a cynical world, where people take you...

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Until We Feel the Night

Jonathan Daniel GardnerDecember 15, 2025

A woman at the passage between subway cars held the door open and screamed into the void. The rest of us kept our eyes to ourselves, acutely aware of her every ...

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LKF

Kobi AnsongDecember 10, 2025

Sterile room, fluorescent lights, it’s freezing too. Agent Fields across the table, a face you wanna punch. Tell me about Zahid, he says. We met on Lan Kwai ...

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Satan of The Airwaves

Wade HarrisDecember 8, 2025

On break, fucking finally. Light another one of god’s cigarettes—Camel Turkish Royal. See some fuckin’ walkie talkie looking thing in the maintenance breakr...

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Pithecanthropus Erectus

Alina StefanescuDecember 8, 2025

You see things differently when you’re in love. – Anna Wiener, “Falling Hard”           They were in love and then the...

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TENDER, DEFIANT

Zuzanna SierosławskaDecember 5, 2025

To women who cross borders. To men who jump. To those who can’t help turning life into story.   Fling Girl   Three nights later, I was in anot...

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LOSER

Lillian Taylor and Richard LeiseDecember 1, 2025

In my heart—for lack of a better word—I ducked.  Head down, I slipped past the pharmacy, skirted the cafe, and swung behind a display counter illuminating, of a...

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Of Which I Am One

Alex DiFrancescoNovember 27, 2025

Alessandro DiFrancesco, despite their name, is almost painfully American. When they read a character of Kurt Vonnegut’s description of the failed sci-fi author ...

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Becoming Thatch

Ross McMeekinNovember 27, 2025

The pragmatic businessman is always composed: abundant hair fixed in a quaff, gym-fit form clothed in cognac oxfords and a charcoal puppytooth suit, decisions m...

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Blood Bag

Joseph GorodnitskiyNovember 26, 2025

The sky is bleeding rain. I am on 42nd Street and I cannot tell if I am wet or just cold. The sun is MIA. Across from me is this mime making O shapes with hi...

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75th & Michigan

Meghan LambNovember 24, 2025

2:36   This empty lot is an art gallery. A chainlink fence surrounds the lot, and serves as a kind of makeshift gallery wall. Dozens of framed prints...

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Lately

Kirsti MacKenzieNovember 21, 2025

  Lately I’ve been burning down highways blindfolded. There are only three ways out of town: east, west, south. He sits in the passenger seat and keeps ...

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Aesop Resentment Society, Extended Hearings On Leporidae Edition

Aug StoneNovember 20, 2025

The Holy Snail has been making waves again. Though to be fair, when has it ever not? One might be excused for thinking this creature’s exalted name has somethin...

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Ghost Train

Lee Matthew GoldbergNovember 13, 2025

Waiting for the 6 train at Union Square, normally a hurricane of activity, dead at four in the morning. Cory worked the night shift at The Inn in Gramercy Park,...

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Smash Therapy

Vanessa AriccoNovember 12, 2025

Inspired by an exercise her therapist gave her, Thea goes to estate sales to buy fine china to smash. Small plates rimmed in gold, porcelain tea cups once gripp...

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