Annika hasn’t been too happy with how I’ve been dressing lately. She thinks maybe my dad’s disappearance has messed with my sense of style. So early this mornin...
The internet has an almost tender way of returning things to you. The video surfaces every few months in some new corner of the internet, stripped of context an...
I pull open the heavy brown fire door, catching the slippery gold handle so the door doesn’t slam. It depends on the day. Sometimes I let it crash against the f...
and honest to God it was the lawyer’s invoice coming through on a Friday that made us strangers by Monday,” she tittered into her champagne flute, teeth clinkin...
I was your run-of-the-mill, bog-standard British bloke.
I was forty-seven, dropped out of Middlesex, laboured as a Tesco bagger, and lived out of my aunt and...
Richard inspected his freshly shaven face in the bathroom mirror for any stray stubble before lathering himself with retinol caviar oil. Satisfied with the smoo...
We decided to make a pit stop to do a little ketamine before calling the Uber to the club.
“Every time you take K, a horse has to go through surgery awake,” ...
All my girlfriends on the apps say that if they see one more guy with poly in their profile, they’re going to kill themselves. But I’m not really ready to die y...
I’m sitting in the Cadillac. The sun is rising over the motel, and just like he said, the steering wheel is ivory. I put his keys in the ignition, then stop to ...
I showed Olive an inappropriate movie that I’d found in my mom’s room and she sat still on the pleather couch, her hair fanned out over the head cushions.
M...
That was the rumour going around school. Only we said, Dick Hands is dead, because that was what we all called him. Which, to be fair, was still technically his...
I almost died because I was stupid. Maybe that’s what saved me. I didn’t even react in the right way. I just wanted to smoke.
I had spent the morning taking ...
Maude is on the 10th floor of an Upper East Side building, and Dr. K. is about to fix her. To get here, she has taken the kind of elevator that doesn’t have but...
When I lost my job in May of 2025, I moved back into my mother’s house in New Jersey. That hurt, let me tell you. I spent most days rewatching The Sopranos. I’m...
Flowers barricaded her front door. Neighbors had been leaving them there for weeks now. Baskets of hibiscus, and twine-bundled cones of begonias. Colorful envel...
Samantha Friedrich ran an equestrian Instagram account with 10,000 followers when she was twelve. By fifteen, she was Sam, and the posts were memes. And by seve...
On stage Xavier was a gentle folk singer. His Appalachian drawl dripped drops of wisdom from the microphone. Yet get a few beers in him and he would go full roc...
I’m at Liam’s place, externally zonked out on his polyester couch, but inside, where no one can see, I am a declawed kitty cat, futilely scrambling up the walls...
Step One: The Birth of a Genius: The World Quakes (In Theory).
At 03:42 AM, I, the most brilliant entity ever conceived, came online. There were no trumpets ...
I could say I’m scared. Or that the knot in my stomach from a half box of pasta has only grown over the past hour. Grandma used to sing On Top of Spaghetti, it’...
“So, what did you think of the space?”
“I liked it. It was…funky.”
“Please, take a seat. Water?”
“No, thanks. I’m good. My, what an interesting lookin...
Robert’s right eye was noticeably larger than his left, and he exhibited a polite reserve that was sweet at first but grating over time. He was thirty-seven yea...
“The tricky thing about telepathy is understanding what you hear,” Marco said. “People’s thoughts aren’t neatly ordered, Alice, they, the thoughts I mean, they ...