"Locking Eyes With Mahalaxmi" by Ashwini Gangal
A true story about faith narrated by a faithless writer. Atheists frequently call on other people’s Gods when they’re desperate. Worn...
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- Nov 12
- 19 min
"Some Tracery of Stardust" by Robin Kinzer
Author’s Note: "Some Tracery of Stardust" maps one woman's history with cats, in parallel to her history with chronic illness. This is a...
- Oct 15
- 2 min
"Release Me" by Shirley Chan
The demon walks into the coffee shop and moves toward me, his cloven hooves tapping on the ceramic tile floor. He is late, and I will...
- Oct 3
- 13 min
"Godmother and the King of Myth" A.J.M. Aldrian
Hidden within the Austrian and Germanic borders, the palace of the last king stands still, only ever brushed by the wind. To reach the...
- Sep 17
- 7 min
"Living on the Edge" by Louis M.
CW: Eating Disorder I slid into his DMs with a burning fire at the tips of my fingers. I rushed to type a message that would remain...
- Sep 3
- 2 min
"Me and Vinnie from New Jersey as told by Google’s Oxford English Language…" by Lisa Thornton
Me and Vinnie from New Jersey as told by Google’s Oxford English Language Dictionary want v. have a desire to possess n. a lack...
- Sep 3
- 9 min
"Showers in the Dark" by Kevin Edward Reed
About three years ago, I began to take showers in the dark. In part to wash away the grime and filth of the day, but also to feel...
- Aug 20
- 4 min
"Grief for the Glistening and the Grisly" by Patricia McCrystal
Like so many others, Cormac McCarthy was profoundly influential to my literary practice. McCarthy’s prose left me aghast. Devoured....
- Aug 20
- 7 min
"Naked Man Walking" by Dustin Michael
I. Amsterdam has many open-air public urinals, but I can recall only one. It consisted of a semicircle of vertical 2x4s enclosing a...
- Jul 23
- 1 min
"The Question" by Virginia Foley
Brian is handsome under moonlight: black shirt, grey jacket and peppered hair. My husband and Brian’s wife have stepped away from the...
- Jul 9
- 3 min
"The Pied Piper of Mediocre Cringelords" by Cody Sexton
Meet (insert name here) the latest sensation in the world of transgressive fiction. With his shocking, provocative, and downright...
- Jul 9
- 5 min
"Therapy" by Mather Schneider
I dreamed I was washing my hands and the skin started coming off my fingers until my finger-bones were exposed. I cried for my mother,...
- Jun 25
- 1 min
"Me and my boy watching the dead comedian on the Channel 4 panel show" by Lucy Goldring
When the dead comedian does his bit, I always laugh too hard. Secretly I’m welling up, thinking of his wife and kids; thinking of myself....
- May 28
- 9 min
"How to Be a Winsor Girl" by Tricia Elam Walker
Some self-labeled “patriots” and other conservatives rage against truthful and complete history and access to books that explore and...
- Apr 30
- 17 min
"Libations for the Metal Gods" by Steve Passey
The Gods of the Riff are inscrutable. They hear neither prayer nor plea. They brook no rebuke. They bestow their favor where they will,...
- Apr 2
- 20 min
"An American Study" by Anna Nguyen
1. I wore the same green, sleeveless jumpsuit two days in a row. We had landed in another temporary home, this time in a small rural town...
- Apr 2
- 6 min
"Billy Made My Crotch Tingle" by Elaina Battista-Parsons
A perfect storm happened in 1990 for the sensory-me. I was beginning to understand what being horny meant. There’s no need for me to be...
- Apr 2
- 13 min
"Who Cares About Choi’s Tacos" by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle
In 2011, you couldn’t find many places in Seoul, South Korea selling Mexican food, authentic or Americanized. Choi’s Tacos, a small,...
- Mar 5
- 1 min
"Nagasaki Sky" by WA Hawkins
Despite the burns on his face and forearms, his ruptured eardrums, Tsutomu Yamaguchi navigated shattered buildings, melted flesh,...
- Mar 5
- 5 min
"Sick for Shakespeare" by Noah Good
The summer before my senior year of high school, I was in a youth production of Measure for Measure (one of the Shakespeare plays that...
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