Notes From an Unreliable Narrator

William M. McIntoshDecember 1, 2023

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been in this suit, this overcoat of what you see, this visage of who you think I am. It slips sometimes and snags on things,...

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Barbie Dream

Tonya RileyNovember 29, 2023

In my Barbie dreams, the doors open for me right away, the hands of dozens of Kens balancing the heavy metal and glass on their pinky fingers. The other fingers...

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I went in my therapist’s office and she was dead!

Tyler DempseyNovember 27, 2023

A note on the desk said: How does that make you feel? Terrible! I ran! The reception area was a giant billboard. It read: We'll bill your card on file. The...

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To the Kid We Pelted with Six Dozen Eggs on Halloween Night, 1996

Eric AldrichNovember 27, 2023

You, kid who we pelted with six dozen eggs, may hate the memory of two carloads of punks egging you on Halloween night in 1996, but understand we had no choice....

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Saint Petersburg Girls

Ryan GriffithNovember 20, 2023

There are many Petersburgs, each of them black and tasting of stone. The city sprawls in a tangled nervous system, twisted districts and zones crisscrossed by c...

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Cowboys & Aliens

Will MusgroveNovember 8, 2023

The humidity of summer vacation filled our lungs like water balloons, so my friends and I decided to cool off with a flick, Cowboys & Aliens. When the credi...

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Eclipse

Catherine RobertsNovember 7, 2023

You’ve been waiting all week for this.   You dab a moon of melted glitter on your cheekbone, another to match on the other. There’s vodka in the mug ...

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X Marks the (Bathroom) Spot

Kat MeadsNovember 1, 2023

Marcus locked the bathroom door—or tried to. It was an old and wobbly lock that failed to properly catch, which was really, really not helping since he definite...

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Changsha Horror Story

Eliot S. KuOctober 16, 2023

I found a decent looking hole in the wall restaurant near the wide and beautiful Xiang River that bisects the city. I had just reconnected with long-lost cousin...

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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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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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How to Tell a Polish Joke

Annie BerkeJanuary 2, 2023

Over an uneventful family dinner, decide to tell your parents a blonde joke you heard at school.   “That one is as old as I am. But back then, it was...

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The way you wear the corpses in your hair

Caleb BetheaDecember 30, 2022

Hammocked in your curls. Little dead humans, embalmed with nothing but shampoo, linseed oil conditioner. Even their teeth are cleaned with scalp-curing properti...

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A Feeling of Intimate Collaboration Between Reader and Writer: An Interview with Meg Pokrass

Gauraa ShekharMay 28, 2021

Featuring sixty-seven stories that span over a decade, Spinning to Mars dangles between the promise of a ride and the promise of home. The eighth collection fro...

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