Fiction

Opening

Jason Arias
Rachel is wearing herring bone patterned red and yellow yoga pants, a black t-shirt with Dolly Parton’s smiling face on it, and a faded headband (the kind Richa...
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Food Pyramid

Greg Tebbano
Where we work is not a co-op. Privately owned, we are taught to say. All of us owned privately for this wage or that salary, a number we hide like an embarrassi...
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Digital burnout

Selena Cotte
It was a mindless Thursday, and every object had been shouting at Petunia: “Find purpose,” “Do something more with your life.” She couldn’t sit down for two min...
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Keeping Warm

Logan Cox
Sweet pea, put on your coat, it’s cold out.” “Cold? How cold?” “It’s 28 degrees.” My daughter looked at me, confused. I rolled my eyes at myself for th...
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The Town

Keegan Swenson
When we arrived in the town everyone looked at us like we were little objects they could tame with their eyes. In those days, we craved approval like a dog want...
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Tulips

Rhiannon Jones
Elise hadn’t known Dylan well enough to call him a friend, exactly, but in the strange summer between the end of exams and Results Day, she had sometimes seen D...
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Bomb Cyclone

Wilson Koewing
I woke up early to drive Rae to the airport. I’d gone back and forth about the Mardi Gras trip and finally decided to stay in Denver. We’d just moved into a new...
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December Now

Myles Zavelo
I’m crying because I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep because I’m crying. I wish I could cry myself to sleep. I haven’t been sleeping well since graduation. I usua...
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Acknowledgements

Zac Smith
The stories in this collection would not be what they are today without input and support from Giacomo, Cavin, Mike, Graham, Alan, Bria, and some others I’m for...
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Summer Rental

Christina Kapp
Everyone comes to this house to die. My husband says I’m melodramatic, lots of people who come to this house stay alive just fine. Most hike the woods, enjoy th...
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Nostalgia

James J. Hatfield
If I have any kind of hookup for anything I immediately tell people. Not because I want to help or coordinate an introduction but because I want it to be known ...
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Run, Run, Run

Charlie Williams
Jimmy “the Baker” Reed, head detective of the NYPD, muscled through the maze of cops and yellow police tape surrounding him. Veterans and rookies alike avoided ...
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Jeopardy

Nathaniel Duggan
Everybody in the short story class had a dead dad except Dan. At times he suspected this left him at a disadvantage, creatively-speaking. While his peers’ work ...
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Crime Court

John Padula
After the world crash of 2020, every country on planet Earth filed for bankruptcy. With no entity large enough to bail out the entire planet, government is forc...
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LOCKJAW

Mary Alice Stewart
It had begun to resurface, her problem. Slowly at first, peekabooing, then swiftly in the night with vengeance. She woke in the morning and felt it. A furious p...
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Organ Donor

Keshe Chow
I wish I could say it was altruistic, that I’m selfless, that I’m a hero. But the truth is, I am a selfish creature. It’s selfishness that makes me want to save...
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Ideal Mall

Nedjelko Spaich
It was June when the days blurred. Some I wished would end faster than they did and others I hoped would go on just a bit longer. But once July and the dead of ...
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