Octopus Joy

Eliot LiJuly 4, 2022

I awake at 2 am, with this recurrent, crushing feeling of emptiness and longing, which is not sated after I roll over to spoon Sadie on the bed. I realize it...

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Morning Spaghetti

Tricia PatrasJune 30, 2022

Where’s the movie about the person with the balanced life? I think to myself, over my morning spaghetti. The one who takes a jog before pouring their morning co...

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Moth & Monster

Priya EleJune 28, 2022

When we go to the party together you turn into a moth and I turn into a monster. Horns grow from the top of my head, break through skin, twist and pirouette int...

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Neon

Emma WellsJune 22, 2022

We had drunk too much. We stood propped by glass cubes, mocking a clear-paned window. Like us, its clarity is mottled, a once translucency muddling with ribbons...

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911, what’s your emergency?

James MontgomeryJune 2, 2022

You’ve got to help me – I think I’m in love. Sorry, sir, did you say love? Love. Sir, this is 911, what’s your emergency? Love. It zaps you. … ...

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The Dagwood

Mark JohnsonMay 31, 2022

Having finished mowing the lawn, I walked into the kitchen with the hopes of constructing a towering sandwich reminiscent of those in the Sunday paper cartoon s...

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Where Have All the Children Gone

Jennifer TodhunterMay 23, 2022

You won’t remember going to bed. You won’t remember telling your kids to go to bed either or their sobbing when you refuse to lie with them or the sound of the ...

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A Letter to Any Remaining Drive Thrus

Simon NagelMay 19, 2022

They converted the mall into housing units in 2026, but we were on the waiting list and didn’t get in until a few years later during what they called Phase 2. T...

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The Night Nobody Moved

Mazzy SleepMay 15, 2022

Act 1: Sitting in the Road I thought you’d come home past midnight as I chewed apart the last few stale crumbs that I had snatched from the refrigerator. It ...

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That Aspect of Happiness

Sean EnnisMay 5, 2022

Tornado watch, and there was no violence at the robotics competition, no flame-throwing, no gears clattering and rolling off into the warehouse. Friendly nerds,...

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Spiral-Shaped Bruise

Caleb BetheaApril 18, 2022

Mike Brady soaks in his new hot tub, thinking of his old wife. He’s trying to place her — the color of her hair, the shape of her eyes, and especially the sound...

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Long Road Short

Scott Mitchel MayApril 8, 2022

I came to the spot where she knew I’d go because she’d made it this way and only this way. I am not a man, after all. Ashen white are the trees that circl...

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REVERSION

Sarp SozdinlerMarch 29, 2022

As a kid, I looked after an ant colony that smelled like crocodiles. They started each day by filing in from one end of the circuit and called it a night after ...

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Had a dream about some stuff

J. F. GleesonMarch 15, 2022

Had a dream where Phoebe Bridgers was at my house. Two actually:   1. Phoebe Bridgers was at my house but I was not at my house because I was i...

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Why I’d Like to Die at Ikea

Linda McMullenMarch 8, 2022

We skipped our ten-year reunion in favor of a mini-gathering at a misplaced bar and a group stagger through the warehouse store district. Shawn said he’d lik...

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If Haley Joel Osment Walks into a Bar and No One Notices, Do You Exist?

Daniel DiFrancoMarch 3, 2022

My little brother had a sixth sense in the movie, but really, I’m the one who can see dead people. He made it big pretending, though he’s not so big now, so I g...

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WHIP IT

PB JohnsonFebruary 27, 2022

Niall was in high school, older than us and he wore glasses that were octagonal and shaded so that you could just barely make out his eyes. His sister was young...

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Tour Jets

Michael HallerFebruary 14, 2022

Tickets were expensive. $50,000 for a seat on the jet that flew from Boston through a hologram of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. About half the passengers...

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Frank Sinatra Ad Libs on His Deathbed

John Waddy BullionJanuary 31, 2022

I hope this doesn’t come as a severe shock to everybody, but I’m through. I know what you’re thinking. No hips, skinny—it’s sad, it’s poignant. Only exercise I ...

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Melting Season

Paul RousseauJanuary 25, 2022

Since birth, Agatha was very sensitive to pollen. She came rushing in from the yard shouting “Mom, Mom!” between spells of four, five, even six sneezes in a row...

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Ecological Oddity

K. Gene FriedmanJanuary 24, 2022

In East Coast cities, you can travel a century in a matter of blocks, adopt a street kitten who unearths crud from primordial crannies you wish remained unchart...

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Aliens Are Only A Little Different Than You

Evelyn WintersJanuary 19, 2022

I went to the drugstore to steal stuff. You can steal all kinds of mints and gum and medicine. I stick to children’s stuff like diapers, formula, kids Tylenol. ...

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It Could Have Been Bloody Mary

Corey FarrenkopfJanuary 17, 2022

“Frankenstein! Frankenstein! Frankenstein.” Ray and Mal’s son, Gill, yelled from the second floor bathroom. Together they looked up from their morning coffee, d...

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Happy Unicorn

JP LorJanuary 5, 2022

I save the ribbed horn for last after the glowing tenderloins and flaky iridescent wings marinated in fairy juice. I take if off my plate and grip the eyeless m...

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Sent From My iPhone

Jeana MahanDecember 10, 2021

I’m sitting in a Trader Joe’s parking lot in a green Subaru. The grey leather inside is still tacky, by the way. Do you remember when we left that party? It ...

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Gesture

Luis NeerNovember 28, 2021

Infinity drifting up, fading out, exhale: spaciousness. Light echoes through the cave. Darkness. A room with five lamps, three tall windows, emerald curtains gr...

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Wonder Bread

S.S. MandaniNovember 17, 2021

Ma stored it next to the pull-out wastebasket under the sink. She hated it, but couldn’t throw it out, knowing it made us happy: The Grilled Cheese Maker 3000. ...

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In Memoriam: Yahoo Answers

Mike Keller-WilsonNovember 12, 2021

Is spaghetti water edible? Who made the first chicken? Can disease go up the pee hole when peeing? – Additional details: Asking for a friend. Why i...

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PROFESSIONALISM

Sean EnnisOctober 25, 2021

Grace did something wonderful at work. She shined a light in the dropped darkness. She saved an entire life! To say more might embarrass or betray or violate la...

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Money, Honey

Jenny StalterSeptember 20, 2021

You came crying on our doorstep, sweet baby, the day after you’d gone with him. I named you Butterfly because what else can I call you after something so ugly? ...

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