DAY PASS

Cameron DarcApril 28, 2025

I’d gotten out of the clinic on a day pass, and Marie came to pick me up and drive me to her apartment. The sky looked more tired than I was, musty white. A sky...

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Take His Advice

Brittany DeitchApril 21, 2025

There was a moment where his neighbor walked up to him and I just sat on the phone listening to him engage that way, the way I missed badly. Presence flooded me...

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McCauley Will Always Be The Best Culkin

Alex RostApril 17, 2025

These voices inside of me are really going at it today, like I’m overhearing parts of myself talking shit about one another, and when they notice I’m listening ...

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The Letter ‘O’ Is Haunting Me

Aileen O’DowdApril 14, 2025

This morning, I woke up in a bowl of Cheerios. Little round ‘O’s strangling my fingers and toes. Weaving through my hair. On the tip of my nose. I dunked myself...

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The Canvas

Jori al JiranApril 13, 2025

He ground his wife’s bones to use as paint. He could not fathom why she remained dead—strange, strange indeed. He tilted his head; his fingers, not trembling—y...

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Send it, Loser

Devin LeonardFebruary 19, 2025

She didn’t answer your calls two years ago and hasn’t reached out since, but what the hell, give it another whirl, you chump. One more time won’t hurt. You coul...

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Alt-Rock Coven

Katie StollmackFebruary 11, 2025

We take the bus like anyone else. We take the bus like you. The three of us sit in the back row, crowned in branches and buds, draped in intricate textiles--tex...

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Seen

Eoin NordmanFebruary 5, 2025

I’ve always hated my fat fucking balloon of a left thumb. Before I met Steve, I wondered if I’d ever find a man willing to love someone with such a sick deformi...

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Death App

David SchairerJanuary 30, 2025

Death never takes a holiday. And why should he? Surge pricing is amazing and there’s always a crunch around major events. Death wasn’t an all-powerful, immor...

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A Comprehensive Ranking System for Fiction Writers on X

Lars AltmanJanuary 24, 2025

Level 1: Friends, family, and crypto-bots as followers. You're trying to build a following of fellow writers who are themselves trying to build a following of f...

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Broken Things

Marcus FieldJanuary 22, 2025

The wheel is still there in the river. When I pluck the small plastic disk from the icy water a whimper turns my flashlight back to the house. The curtains trem...

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I fell in love with a Disney Adult

Anna DempseyJanuary 22, 2025

Hailing from Jacksonville, Florida was his first strike. Lucky for him, I’d recently downloaded a meditation app called Shhhh which told me to accept every pers...

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Speculative Music

Jason M. ThornberryJanuary 3, 2025

It begins as burning scrape: plectrums plucking rusty nerve endings. Pulses trace my gait, recalling cadence, mimicking steps when I pause to examine the ground...

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The Cavernous Struggle Inside My Mouth

Ági BoriDecember 30, 2024

A ballooning sensation lurks within me day and night; it flows into my dreams; it brings with it vertigo and anxiety; it lies in ambush until its exasperating n...

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Blah Blah Blah

Laura ShellDecember 23, 2024

He posed the question... Can you write a story called "Blah Blah Blah"? I hadn't a clue. What would it be about? I said the words aloud. They tasted like cherri...

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Hungry Man

James CallanDecember 16, 2024

  Ambiguity excites me when it comes to would-be lovers, any old stranger who happens to pass close enough to touch, sometimes smell, but not to pinpoin...

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21 Jump Street

Phoebe LuDecember 9, 2024

When NBA players get old or break an ankle, the time then comes to learn Chinese, because the Shanghai Sharks will pay for play, I don’t know how much but it is...

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The Only Time My Brother Called to Invite Me to His Wedding

Ada PeloniaNovember 22, 2024

Hey, remember when you’d laugh your heart out with my silly jokes and ask Mom to slice your cookie in half so I’d have more than yours because you knew I loved ...

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Why I Love The Little Man So Much

Jack KellyNovember 15, 2024

He fits right in my pocket, snuggled against my wallet, keys, and phone. Sometimes, out of comfort or exhaustion, he takes a short nap and I feel a spritely pat...

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I start my day by reading an article about climate change,

Rachel Abbey McCaffertyNovember 13, 2024

and then I apply sunscreen, SPF 120, and get in my boat to row to work. The sun shines harshly, the former shifting of seasons done, leaves permanently burnt on...

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Autobiography

Eliot S. KuNovember 11, 2024

I started in the basal layers of the skin, putting in my time. As a dutiful worker, I eventually made my way up, erupting through the skin surface like an ugly...

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Outsourcing Reputable Foods For My Diners As I’ll Be Damned If I Were To Waste My Own Time Raising Daphnia.

Aled TurnerNovember 5, 2024

I'd wanted to acquire live foods I could reproduce for my diners whom I'd housed in a separate aquarium in the living-room. I'd wanted to acquire live foods so ...

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You Are a Shadow

Nicholas Wilder FormanOctober 31, 2024

New vampire sit on the ledge from their third story house window. South central. There are more of those than you know and they’re all beautiful. Something abou...

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VAMPIRE

Sage EarlyOctober 30, 2024

I’m running from something. I don’t remember what. But I know that I can’t stop because sticky black panic is boiling in my chest, the froth bubbling up into my...

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Jim the Hoarder

Laura ShellOctober 11, 2024

There you are. Never married. Never had a girlfriend for more than three days. Seriously. You're a hoarder. You buy three of everything. Kitchenware. Clothing. ...

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Unlikable Female Protagonists

Jay McKenzieOctober 4, 2024

There’s Lola who climbs out of windows to dance on tables with boys. There’s Jarrah who drinks vodka alone until she throws up. There’s Yuna who carves ruby sle...

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Night Hunter

Mark IfansonSeptember 26, 2024

She stalked her prey in the thick and humid summer night air. Having long-ago foresworn blood meals, she roamed the countryside, relying more on scent than on t...

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Pspspspsps

Steve GergleySeptember 20, 2024

Each night, while working the night shift at Hot Topic, my wife and I discuss our idea to open our own store for cats called Pspspspsps. This is our grand dream...

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World’s Greatest Dad

Samuel SmithSeptember 19, 2024

Kevin ambles through reception holding a box under one arm. With his receding hairline and oversized suit, he resembles a turtle. He bobs his head at the lady b...

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Postcard from Bummerville, USA

Elena EnderSeptember 10, 2024

Population: me There are many things about this town I don’t love, one of them being the whole ghosting of it all. I’m the only one here. It feels like every...

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