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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Cause of Death

Dodge ZelkoNovember 7, 2025

So much noise buffeting around in here I can’t make sense of it. I focus on the crackling paper of my cigarette. Through all the rest I can still hear that, but...

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H. Precarius

Josh WatkinsNovember 6, 2025

God gave me my money. —John D. Rockefeller   My luck with money reached its end at the Field Museum. Joan covered my entry fee, swore she didn’t mind....

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Sleepovers

Julián MartinezNovember 5, 2025

The specialest movie was one we’d watch during sleepovers— we being all the kids who’d ditch our homes every night to be in each other’s, a dozen of us, in four...

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I’ve Never Been to The Mars Cheese Castle

Ian liptakOctober 30, 2025

UW-Parkside was a small school in the middle of somewhere. And somewhere was nowhere else other than Kenosha. It’s a rusty place; it’s grey and cheese curds and...

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Neighborhood Watch

Kip KnottOctober 28, 2025

PERSONAL LOG: OCTOBER 3, 2038 – 11:13 P.M. The temperature on the thermometer outside reads 22 degrees, which is unusually cold compared to autumn temperatur...

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How To Steal Heineken in 2057

Wade HarrisOctober 27, 2025

This fucking digital asshole had No Good by Lynch Mob absolutely screaming through the 6.5” door speakers—full volume. I was too drunk to drive. But anyways, th...

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A Thinly Veiled Critique of “The French Dispatch”

Ian liptakOctober 17, 2025

It was Covid and I was sick again. 5 years ago, I was battling a nasty case of psychosis. My family and I had moved into a split level in Walworth County Wiscon...

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Another Shitty Day in Taft

Damon InmanOctober 16, 2025

“Jailbirds don't fly, and they don't get high, and they don't drink icy cold Budweiser on a hot summer day.” “Fuck you John. This shit sucks. Getting up at t...

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The Porch

Jimmy SchmitzOctober 14, 2025

My porch has folding chairs. People sit in them. There’s a plastic table—guests put drinks on it. Lights hang from the ceiling—an Amazon purchase. The smell of ...

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Assimilate

Wade HarrisOctober 13, 2025

We couldn’t let panic stop us now. I was out of pills and only had 12 rounds of .357 Magnum. We came here for one thing. One simple fucking thing. Unfortunately...

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Meeting in Aisle One

Hannah WyattOctober 10, 2025

She watches the movie from bed. It’s modern. It’s in technicolor, the way they used to be, and it’s one about a man who loves jazz and a woman who longs to be a...

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The Knight and I

Brian RawlinsOctober 10, 2025

As soon as I hold the sword in my hands, I feel stronger than the jacked up Ford F150 that that dickhead Jasper parks up on his lawn, so strong that I swing the...

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Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It

Christopher GonzalezOctober 9, 2025

This morning’s run to the ATM was harrowing. I dipped into savings! Seventh time this month. I tell Alicia all this in the middle of my second mojito. “Look,...

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Making S’mores In a Parking Lot

T.S. CarneyOctober 8, 2025

It was 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. I was taking my wife to work. She worked at the mall at the time, and she was running late. As we turned the corner, smoke curled i...

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The Verizon Guy

Jen ShepherdOctober 7, 2025

His bedroom is a low slanting attic space but after four years I’m used to the yellowed popcorn plaster ceiling looming above as he lingers over my semi-soft-fo...

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The Dancing Werewolf (An Appreciation)

Chad PooveyOctober 7, 2025

(Los Angeles, Sept. 5, AP)  Paul Vincent Carlisle, known to millions as “The Dancing Werewolf,” died this morning at his home in Malibu.  He was 79.  The exact ...

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