Menagerie

Cole ShuherkApril 21, 2026

It took 28 years and he learned how to survive himself. He could sit calmly with the parts he did not like. Girls liked him, and everybody wanted to be his frie...

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Nine Truths and a Lie

Jennifer FoxApril 20, 2026

The bathroom mirror always fogs with someone else’s breath, even when I’m alone and the ghosts have gone to bed.  There’s a patch in the garden where I burie...

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Divination

Ashley Neary-GreenhouseApril 17, 2026

I read an article in Texas Monthly about a man who was mauled by Waylon, a 5-year-old pet warthog whom he had raised since birth. Waylon was sweet and docile up...

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The Great God Nicotine

Zach LowApril 6, 2026

It’s out there somewhere, you know:  that last pack of Cool Cucumber Juul Pods.  Collecting dust in a storage unit -- if it even can get dusty in one of t...

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Such Late Night Radio

Travis FlattApril 2, 2026

“Let's Ride!” shouts Phantom Racer. He leaps through the Barracuda’s driver side window. The sun-sticky seat leather squelches against his invisibility bodysuit...

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No One Has Spoken To You This Directly

Sean EnnisMarch 26, 2026

The world  crackles  and feeds back with mystery on a walk with Apple the dog. Even the tiny microphones and cameras hidden in the shrubs don’t bum us out. I’m ...

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I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY

Robert John MillerFebruary 26, 2026

The doctor, the ENT, is so far 10 minutes late, so I’m just sitting in a high-backed black chair, waiting. It feels suave, like a private salon. A huddle of ton...

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Farewell to Regale Park

T.S. CarneyFebruary 11, 2026

It has been a few years since I moved out of Regale Park. I still miss the location—the apartment tucked next to a synagogue and a Catholic Shrine that served t...

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Jack the Ripper

Sean DowieFebruary 10, 2026

There’s been a seismic shift in the world. I’m not ripping many movie theater tickets anymore. Working at AMC was a dream. My manager called me a rip-roaring g...

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When we h(a)unted

Rachel Abbey McCaffertyFebruary 4, 2026

We stalked the halls of dead malls, ghosts before our time. We lived by sense, taste and smell and sight, by instinct, lust and desire and rage. We were not ...

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A Word of Caution Before Your Tonsil Surgery

Ági BoriJanuary 21, 2026

Since you’ve opted to have awake tonsil surgery to avoid general anesthesia due to your existing heart condition, the removal of your tonsils shouldn’t take lon...

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Sext to the Man 30 Years My Senior Whom I’m Strangely Attracted to Though I Do Not Have Daddy Issues

Tracy DubinJanuary 19, 2026

I need to tell you that I do treat sex as a transactional human commodity because I am a capitalist, not a feminist, I am a sex capitalist; but, I wanted to hav...

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It Happened Again

Sam SmallJanuary 13, 2026

I don’t know how I came to you, maybe like a ghost, all fuzzy and plucked out of context and ringing your doorbell at 3 in the morning. There you were: a raised...

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Nothing Special Happened

Patrick G. RolandJanuary 5, 2026

He whispered through the phone, “I need you to come with me.” Ten years of silence, and I turned the volume down anyway. “Please,” he said. It was 7 p.m. My son...

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My Career Has Croaked: Oversaturation in the Anthropomorphic Frog Fiction Market

Chris DolanJanuary 1, 2026

All the best anthropomorphic frog stories have already been written, yet I carry on. My favorite was the one about the would-be Olympic decathlete who unsucc...

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someday I will eat dirt

Ian liptakDecember 29, 2025

I planted tobacco seeds in a park by the Pike River. Kenosha is an A Marlboro Red. I smoke American spirit light blues. Pavement in the alley cracks. The dum...

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Eleven

Daniel KriegerDecember 2, 2025

The first time I broke up with you, I got jumped on the way home by three teenagers in puffers who threw me to the ground and stomped on my face. I spent a week...

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Syntropy

Clay TroupNovember 25, 2025

In bed, Morbidia consults her Magic 8 Ball, whose little blue triangle floats dramatically into view to say NO. She shakes it again. She shakes it again. She sh...

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Honest Advice from My Diddy at the Rattlesnake Rodeo in Ezekiel, Mississippi

Mike ItayaNovember 21, 2025

During my alleged 10th birthday at the Rattlesnake Rode in Ezekiel, Mississippi (I’d turned 12 the month before, to the detection of nobody), my diddy, R.T., be...

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Gwen Stefani CD

Christopher BlankenshipNovember 19, 2025

The eczema on Davey’s left cheek has its own topography now—ridges and valleys that add half an inch to his profile. He thinks his face is wide enough as-is. Hi...

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A Recipe for Anxiety: or Hating Everyone and Wondering if Everyone Hates You

Laney LenoxNovember 17, 2025

Fascism Climate change Being autistic Reading The Guardian at 7 AM with a cup of coffee and no solid food in your system Seeing your neighbor wa...

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Self-Care, But Make It Weird

Deb TracyNovember 11, 2025

Welcome to your best self, curated in wax and pretzels. You deserve a Girl Lunch that looks effortless, tastes passable, and hides the evidence of your unraveli...

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Secondhand Sam’s Where Secondhand Children’s Clothes Are First Class!

Rebecca KlassenNovember 10, 2025

EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK   Sam’s Message Maybe you’re here to stay, or just for a season. At Secondhand Sam’s, you’re part of a family and you’re valued, n...

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Dead Air

Eli WarrenOctober 31, 2025

The station felt older at night. The walls hummed with leftover heat from the day, and the smell of burnt coffee lingered under the vents. Kaila sat in front of...

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Night of the Living Dead

Adam McOmberSeptember 25, 2025

Here is a movie like Night of the Living Dead, but it’s not Night of the Living Dead. It’s black and white, yes. Grainy. And there is, everywhere, a certain haz...

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Fracture & Fragments & Fuckin’ Fish Food

Mitchell NySeptember 24, 2025

Hunger pulled at my viscera and the nausea that followed twisted me into knots. They shook me and found me awake, gazing at the red LED  “2:13 a.m.” My cat Mona...

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My Funeral on Facebook Live

Marie Anne ArreolaSeptember 19, 2025

Fifteen lucid memories sit in the audience, watching a hundred others I can’t place. I arrive late, time zones slipping through me like water, but it hardly mat...

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Sleep Paralysis Demon

Alex GurtisSeptember 17, 2025

It was like when the lightning hit the tv, but didn’t electrocute him. It never played images the same. In the evening as the sun set, the child was drawn to th...

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Review of MDMA purchased from Etsy by a Zen Buddhist priest

Eliot S. KuSeptember 16, 2025

I downed the mosquito-colored crystals dissolved in a glass of tap water and sat for at least an hour in a hot tub breathing in the haze of aerosolized dead ski...

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Depressed for Panda Express (Ms. Wanda)

Mike ItayaSeptember 15, 2025

See, in Ezekiel, Mississippi we were all on tenterhooks. There wasn’t much to tether us to life. Weeks before, rumors that we had a Panda Express coming flooded...

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