All the President’s Dogs

Blake WallinDecember 6, 2018

This is an excerpt from a fantasy satire novel entitled More Perfect   August 27, 2211 (10:00am) The President rode his coattails into whatever form...

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On the Downbeat

Cecilia KennedyNovember 25, 2018

  There’s a syncopated, synthesizer, drum machine, reguetón beat that calls out over my Bose® speakers—and that beat belongs to the song “Vaivén” by Dad...

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Threatening Behaviour

Hasen HullNovember 25, 2018

There was a gap of three days between the end of my last lease and the start of my next. During that time, I was essentially homeless. The familial home was one...

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Tuesday

Wendy PetersonNovember 25, 2018

“We’ll give you some time just in case.” I had a week. A week to hold onto the doctor’s note and reconsider. A week because I couldn’t do it any sooner. I ha...

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Rules for Escaping

Nick FarriellaOctober 24, 2018

The man awakes in a room of his own design. He stretches across the green ripped up couch, looks around. In front of the couch are two leather desk chairs with ...

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What Fucking up Feels Like

Nathaniel Kennon PerkinsSeptember 19, 2018

I feel like I fucked up, maybe. Like I shouldn’t have made such a big deal about my girlfriend cheating on me. Because I actually don’t care if my sexual partne...

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A Cycle of Toxic Domestication

Delvon T. MattinglySeptember 15, 2018

You’re both young, and in love. You agree to move in together. All your belongings are jointly threaded by your souls, from the furniture sets in the living are...

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THE TINDER BIO AS AN EXPRESSION OF MY CURRENT MENTAL STATE

Marisa CraneAugust 15, 2018

If you’re reading this, it means you’ve managed to hack my Gmail and find my Google doc containing every Tinder bio I’ve ever had, arranged by date. This is the...

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May Contain Gluten

Keaton SmithAugust 15, 2018

Huey Seymour stood in the two-foot deep hole in the back corner of the yard behind his family’s farmhouse, located in Central Kansas. His eyes dashed left and r...

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To You, in Another 31 Years

Steve GergleyJuly 31, 2018

  For thirty-one days you’ve been trapped inside this house, searching for an exit. There is a part of you that craves this idea of freedom more than an...

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Russell the Muscle Brings the Pain

Harris LahtiJune 13, 2018

Tonight—like every Monday night—the residents of Lexington Home crowd the living room to watch the leotarded men of WWE wrestling trade body-slams and bark scho...

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RESTAURANT BOY

Blake MiddletonJune 2, 2018

I've worked at the same restaurant for five years.   Not the worst job ever.   No no.   Not terrible.   Just, you kn...

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For My Beautiful Daughter Marilyn on Her 16th Birthday

Alex EbelMay 31, 2018

After reading the card aloud, Marilyn’s mother carefully opened the gift she had finished wrapping moments before. Inside the box was an apron made of heavy red...

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Determinants

Kelly FlynnMay 29, 2018

We put our wine glasses on cocktail tables and face the stage. I don’t think he should be drinking. A year ago I got a text message at 3am on a Tuesday. In a fe...

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Two Storeys

Steve AnwyllMay 25, 2018

It sounds like a sack of concrete hitting the pavement. No life. So I get off the couch. Stand still for a moment. Listen to the curses being yelled down below....

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Three fragments of a chronology of depression (as seen through the eyes of two girls and their kitchen)

Marija VidakovicMay 22, 2018

“Vittujen kevät ja kyrpien takatalvi!” written in black marker on a ripped out piece of paper, and stuck to the kitchen wall using blue-tack. “Spring of cunts, ...

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Inside Recess

Drew BuxtonMay 21, 2018

Eric had a retainer and glasses with the strap-thing that went around his neck so he couldn’t drop them, but he’d eat anything you told him to: crayons, pencils...

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All the Brady Families

Robert P. KayeMay 18, 2018

The Brady Bunch remains the touchstone for all families thrown into a blender. You know how it goes— it’s the story of a Lovely Lady who was bringing up three v...

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Communist Armstrong and the Dadaist Detective Agency

Jeremy John ParkerMay 16, 2018

At the Dadaist Detective Agency the typewriter went unanswered and the calls went untyped. Communist Armstrong swiveled in his chair and threw his feet on the d...

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Confessions of a Former Student of UC Berkeley, the Top Public University in the World

Catherine SinowMay 15, 2018

Hello! My name is Robert Núñez, I am twenty-four years old, and I enjoy learning and synthesizing information. I am here to tell you a remarkable tale about my ...

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Swift

Michael Seymour BlakeMay 14, 2018

“Seriously? Watching the final episode of David the fucking Gnome, that dumb cartoon, was the most defining moment of your childhood?” “Hell yes,” Marc said,...

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Malbec on the Rocks

Joshua BohnsackMay 7, 2018

Ingredients: - 1 night of heavy drinking - 2 desperate people - 3/4 remaining bottle of wine on the counter Preparation: - Add ice to a pint glas...

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Running Wild

Kevin BigleyMay 3, 2018

The boy was in the woods, he was lost, and he was questioning everything he had ever believed. He had been wandering the immense Oregonian forest for the better...

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A review of Stephen Moles’ ‘A Review that Reviews Itself’

Stephen MolesApril 26, 2018

This is a review of Stephen Moles’ ‘A Review that Reviews Itself’, a fictional work that exists nowhere other than in this review. Before I begin, I would like ...

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After you survive the fallout – shed

Jane-Rebecca CannarellaApril 21, 2018

After it's over, shed. Shed your clothing—pull pieces of shirts and skirts and panties from your body like a snake escaping its skin. The debris from the fallou...

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THE FLOOR IS LAVA

Janelle GrecoApril 18, 2018

My sister wants to pick out a whole new kitchen. She wants a new fridge, new flooring--the whole nine yards. “I’m tired,” she says. “I’m tired of the shitty ...

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Let’s Talk About Dinosaurs

Sarah Bex RiceApril 12, 2018

You know when you’re trying to formulate words, move two lips,…two but just one set….to help articulate signals of thought from the brain to the mouth? Interior...

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McTier

Uzodinma OkehiMarch 27, 2018

-Iowa City 1995   Just hold it.   Pokerface . . .   Man, be cool! I think, and I don’t want to seem too thirsty. But still. Thr...

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Game Over

William LennonMarch 25, 2018

Jack wakes up. He looks out the window of his DC apartment. Eastern Market. He’s got a decent job as a legislative aid for his congresswoman from his home distr...

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The Bass Player in a Metal Band

Lanny DurbinMarch 23, 2018

My sister Ruth let her boyfriend move into our trailer in March. Ruth was seventeen, and Joel, I don't know how old Joel was. Older than Ruth, for sure. He had ...

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