I Statistic. Now

Tyrel KessingerMarch 2, 2021

Hello! Nice to meet you! I’m a statistic! (Previously a human being!) But when you die you become a statistic so here we are. I had a job before I w...

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The Perfect Woman

Madeline CashNovember 23, 2020

Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison, a year of house arrest, and two years of probation after being charged with conspiracy, obstruction of ju...

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Moon Work

Ryan NormanNovember 19, 2020

It’s the Dark Moon. I’ve been wandering these woods for hours, passing trees, each peak and valley in the bark a fingerprint, yet I circle them. Lost. Who did I...

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Death confetti

Zoë MeagerNovember 10, 2020

  Death actually just climbed into the cannon himself, so that was pretty profound and everything. Before he got in, he stood there for a moment admirin...

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Being Fictional and Eating Pizza

Tian YeungNovember 3, 2020

The day she found out she was fictional, she was eating a slice of pizza. No, it was not pepperoni or cheese. Those toppings are too common, too overrated. She ...

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mtg minutes

D.T. RobbinsOctober 28, 2020

EL SEGUNDO SECT OF THE SATANIC ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA (SAA) Date: 8/10/2020 Start time: 6:00pm Venue: Pasadena Hyatt Business Lobby   6:02pm – ...

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The Manhattan Project

Emma ShepardSeptember 24, 2020

The apartment stunk of microwaved meat and potatoes. My grandfather sat on his brown leather recliner, picking at the stuffing coming out of a hole in the leath...

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The Turquoise Tiger

Josh DaleSeptember 22, 2020

My partner left me because I told her turquoise jaguars weren’t real. And I realize I may have been mean, despite the realistic turquoise bust that was mounted ...

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Rock Wall

Wilson KoewingSeptember 18, 2020

On a trail near Wolf Creek, a shirtless jogger passed our group at 12,000 feet. A tattoo of Idaho was emblazoned on his right shoulder. Sweat trickled down his ...

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An Incident at The Vladi-Schwarz Sixty-Four Squares Championship

Kausik KskSeptember 17, 2020

Tabakovic’s gaze bores through Dashem’s head. The rapping of Dashem’s knuckles on the table intensifies. Would Dashem restore the lost glory to Vladivania? How ...

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The Name You Asked For

Ernesto ReyesSeptember 8, 2020

When you’re born, your Name will be waiting for you, standing by your father. You’ll quickly be able to recognize your Name, even if you don’t know how to spell...

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Three Blurbs

Zac SmithSeptember 7, 2020

1. Drunk and despairing, I plucked this book from a low-hanging branch. I bit into its tender flesh and let the inky juice drip down my chin. I stumbled back...

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NERVOUS BREAKDOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY

John BanningSeptember 4, 2020

I was in the hotel room and had managed to create a wedge of space between the bed and the nightstand, about a metre wide, and I had bunched myself into this bo...

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That Wolf Motherfucker

D.T. RobbinsAugust 31, 2020

It pretty much started with him howling during orgasm on top of his girlfriend one night. After that, he grew a mustache. He’d never had a mustache. Thick red f...

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Building Normalcy with a Ring of Fascination Around It: An Interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano

Gauraa ShekharAugust 27, 2020

Details accrue quietly in Tara Isabel Zambrano’s debut collection — in the click-clack of a neighbor’s stilettos, in yolk that clings to the fractured shell of ...

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Upon Not Being Diagnosed a Wizard as You’d Hoped

Renee AgatepAugust 27, 2020

So you’ve been questioned as to whether or not you possess magic power! Here are the diagnostic criteria for determining if you are, in fact, a wizard. Symp...

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Likes

Yash SeyedbagheriAugust 25, 2020

I milk likes by posting comments on YouTube. I regurgitate Tropic Thunder quotes. Bloviate about Rasputin. Make comments about friendship being like politics, r...

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The Credits Are Rolling, Aren’t They?

Daedalus FitzgeraldAugust 20, 2020

The worst part about killing yourself is the urge to die a death that’s yours- as if the method of your exit will affect the tone of your absence.   ...

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Friday Morning, 9:36 a.m.

Jennifer DickinsonAugust 18, 2020

After the tenth shot, Giant said we had to run. “Fuck no,” I said. This wasn’t what we’d practiced. I pictured Laura and Quinn and Danisha barricaded in Ms. ...

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Pizza Friday

Davon LoebAugust 14, 2020

Later they said this is where it started, when he became a bad kid; but really, he was just pissed his square pizza was cold and that it flopped between his han...

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You’re The Most Entertaining Person I’ve Ever Met

Torey AkersJuly 7, 2020

Rhea sits in a weathered Adirondack chair outside her trailer home in Novelty, Ohio, the only hotel-free location in the whole of Russell Township. The Titans a...

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Mechanisms of Defense

Nina Shevzov-ZebrunMay 27, 2020

  Altruism The rain is unexpected, so violent the sun chokes. A stranger gives away her umbrella.   Humor (warning: medical, probably not ...

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Hairy Monster

Ben UmayamMay 4, 2020

“You very handsome now.  You look very cool.   You look 26, not 62!”  Cheryl laughed her low, deep laugh.  If Cher had a Malaysian counterpart, she would sound ...

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WAS IT SOMETHING I WROTE?

Colin NewtonApril 16, 2020

It's been six weeks, two days and 17 hours since we last spoke. I know I shouldn't be thinking about you as often as I am. I certainly shouldn't be keeping trac...

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Tongues

Yasha CastsApril 13, 2020

There’s a trend here. She says 5, I say 6:30; she asks where I am, I say, “coming;” she stares at her watch, I arrive frenzied. I voiced my excuse for that part...

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Sci-Fi Saturday

Charles GroselApril 4, 2020

Past the point of no return something always goes terribly wrong—an exploding oxygen tank, an errant asteroid, sabotage by the Iago-like stowaway—and the spacec...

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Hospital Visit

Kevin SterneMarch 18, 2020

My girl and I visit my dad in the hospital. He's watching this show called Man vs. Bear.   This accountant who did an Iron Man is tug-of-warring with...

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What

Joshua HebburnMarch 16, 2020

“What,” he said. “Nothing,” she said, “I didn't say anything.” One of them had lied and the other knew....

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The Getaway Car

Bethany MangleMarch 12, 2020

You got a fast car. I remember the day you came home with it, the way you sat at the kitchen counter and spun the keys around your index finger by the metal rin...

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Thoughts After Being Struck by Lightning

Jeana MahanMarch 10, 2020

It’s a weird feeling being dead. When the lightning hit, physically my body went down, but a part of me went up. I begin to float, like a balloon filled with...

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