Bloodletting

Amy DeBellisOctober 4, 2023

When a pair of ski-masked men walk into the country hospital, guns drawn and saying Do what we say and you won’t get hurt, nobody knows how to react at first. P...

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I’ve been speaking with Joan of Arc on the Ouija Board

Caleb BetheaOctober 2, 2023

We’re writing ghost stories together. It’s autofiction. We’re BFFs. Mostly started as YESNOGOODBYE but now she calls me bitch and we laugh until I weep into my ...

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Legendary Rapper Redman Puts His Staten Island Crib on the Market

John Waddy BullionOctober 1, 2023

I don’t think it really hit home that I was moving out for good until the man came to fix my doorbell. This guy was a magician; he was on some real David Blaine...

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Getting to Know You

Brian SaccaSeptember 17, 2023

  “Hi, Glenda! I’m David. It’s so lovely to meet in person. It’s weird to only communicate over texting, right? I don’t feel like I know someone until I...

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Terms and Conditions

Lucas HubbardSeptember 8, 2023

I can help. I’ve made nine thousand, just in America today, Marcus. I know you’ve been shopping together for a decade. The wedding was overdue, based on how ...

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Puff

Matt LeibelSeptember 4, 2023

A cloud went to a party. The cloud didn’t know anyone, so it just hovered awkwardly and nibbled puff pastries in the living room. A guy came up and introduced h...

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Course Description

Chris EbelAugust 29, 2023

History 411: Human Fallibility   Students in this course will investigate how humans’ inherent fallibility has denied our species from fully achievin...

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One-Star Google Maps Review of a Rhode Island Lighthouse

Chas CareyAugust 28, 2023

What did it do to deserve this? There’s no explanation. Just the star itself, unadorned, accusatory, the sole record of any visitor’s presence. Did the reviewer...

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To reach into the earth and eat it: a guide

Gretta TrafficanteAugust 21, 2023

First, you must have tried other food and been unfulfilled. If you’re looking to move quickly, an unseasoned casserole will do, or slightly burnt toast, in a pi...

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Mixed Media

Emily HooverAugust 20, 2023

I drive to Riverside City College to give Dr. Lamoreaux my Life Drawing I portfolio. I imagine her sitting in her office, the citron light shining on her face j...

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Lost in Place

Ann WeilAugust 17, 2023

I flop onto the couch, flip on the TV. Too early for RuPaul, so I click on a remake of Lost in Space, this one starring yours truly as The Robot, always waving ...

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How Women Describe Me on Dates

Lane ChasekAugust 16, 2023

After the theater darkened, she leaned toward me and whispered, “You have a mercenary personality.” On the drive back to her place, I couldn’t stop thinking ...

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Morning

Benjamin NiespodzianyAugust 16, 2023

He appraised the stainless trinkets slinked atop her sidewalk blanket. She indexed the display. She explained to him the limits of leather. Various leathers, et...

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Kitchen Qualms

Nida MubarakiJuly 26, 2023

“We are eating butter pasta,” I announce with a brevity that is beyond me. By “we” I mean me, and this declaration came with no more than giving a sardonic nod ...

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Chaos Theory

James CallanJuly 20, 2023

In Jurassic Park, when Jeff Goldblum takes Laura Dern’s hand into his own, he deposits a droplet from his drink into the groove of her knuckles --an exchange of...

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I wake up with a new face every Tuesday

Michael DegnanJuly 20, 2023

I miss my face, the one my parents gave me. It was the color of oatmeal and had an awkward smile that never lined up with my eyes. No one ever knew if I was hap...

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Night Pie

Shane KowalskiJuly 9, 2023

Both of us are still up. Why can’t we go to sleep? Who knows. But somebody made pie! Did you make the pie? Well, I didn’t make the pie. I guess it’s true what t...

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On Resting at the Bottom of Cannaregio Canal

Madeline GrahamJuly 5, 2023

Some might think it dull, lying here on the mud, under feathery sediment and meters of silty water in only the few weak rays of sun that pierce through. But I f...

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Yearbook Predictions

Celia BistiJune 19, 2023

She will lie in wait, hiding her talents… looking like “the innocent flower, but be(ing) the serpent under’t.” She will become a spy of the International Women’...

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Echoes Across the Ocean

Alex RomeroMay 31, 2023

i. I SIT HERE on the damp concrete along the Seine gaping at the Eiffel Tower. Like me, she searches the night for glimpses of you. She waves her light around u...

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College and Collage

Ivy GrimesMay 24, 2023

  College   That one Thanksgiving, we wanted to reuse our Halloween costumes, so you went as a Christiana Ricci and I went as Beverly D'Angelo. W...

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Making a U-turn in the middle of Route 17 in the middle of the night

Ashley BereschMay 21, 2023

Swerved to miss a rabbit and missed. Three-point turn, almost not enough shoulder and almost tipping the car. The highway empty except for a deer in the pine st...

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DEAD CERAMIC

Jamie Anthony LouisMay 15, 2023

A broken plate lies between us. I say, “It’s not my fault.” You say, “You should have put it away earlier.” I look at the shattered off-white ceramic piec...

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Danny Boy

James CallanMay 5, 2023

When my wife and I considered a name for our son, deliberating between the traditional, the lyrical, the new age unique, we ultimately decided on Finn one week ...

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Time Travel

Aiden Grace SmithApril 25, 2023

“What happened to the bottle opener?” I ask. “What happened to the murder hornets?” he counters.  My partner has a theory that 2020 is proof that time travel...

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The Worst Downhill Cheese Wheel Chaser in Town

Caleb BetheaApril 19, 2023

His theory. Just like time and space, sex appeal works as a building block in the universe. Athletes funnel this energy into prowess on the court, the field, do...

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After watching the finale of Daisy Jones & The 6 on Prime Video

David ColodneyApril 19, 2023

Last night’s mist drifts from my eyes as the Today show plays a clip of Daisy Jones & The 6 performing on SNL like a band called Daisy Jones & The 6 WOU...

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Suds N’ Duds

Kayleigh ShoenApril 10, 2023

Aaron likes to gamble, but casinos don’t appeal to me. I’ve spent too much time here, feeding bills into machines with handwritten “costumers only” signs. (My r...

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Winter Driving Dreaming by J. F. Gleeson

J. F. GleesonApril 3, 2023

We have gone on a drive because Grandmother has been drinking. The drinking this time meant that Mum said please can you tell us when you’ve been drinking becau...

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Succession

Sabrina HicksFebruary 26, 2023

We played hide-and-go-seek in each other’s homes: dinner parties, backyard barbecues, white elephant gift exchanges. We’d steal bits of towering deserts, macaro...

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