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"Jesus Christ Throws Himself a Surprise Birthday Party…" by Corey Miller
Jesus Christ Throws Himself a Surprise Birthday Party To Interrogate Who Stole His Tupperware Lid He lent the portable containers to...
Jan 1, 20244 min read

"Writing Can at Times Come From a Very Selfish Place" by Sophie Dufresne
Average Interviewer: What inspired your short story “An Average Short Story on Something I Have Very Little Direct Experience With?”...
Dec 12, 20233 min read

"The Comeback Kid" by Alan Swyer
For the first time in his adult years – not that he often thought of himself as an adult, or made much of an effort to behave like one –...
Nov 12, 202310 min read

"I Can Do It In My Sleep" by Sam Szanto
‘Mummy, look, a ghost did a painting.’ Maddie looks. On the kitchen table is a painting of a bucolic country scene. There is a farmhouse...
Nov 12, 202317 min read

"The 396" by Steve Passey
“En un beso, sabrás todo lo que he callado.” — Pablo Neruda I have two things I have to do today. A local car show, where I’m parking my...
Nov 12, 20236 min read

"The Lake Underneath" by Travis Flatt
The hatch in back my house leads to a crawl space. This crawl space, made of mud, winds wormlike, creeps, full of centipedes, and delves...
Oct 3, 20233 min read

"When Gran-Gran's Pearl Necklace Goes Missing" by Jennifer Lai
When Gran-Gran’s Pearl Necklace Goes Missing she narrows her eyes at my brother, Dusty. He’s forever misplacing stuff: LEGOs, socks,...
Oct 3, 20233 min read

"At His Wedding, the Truth" by Sumitra Singam
CW: unplanned pregnancy, termination, gaslighting/emotional manipulation, acute manic episode There’s a clamour, a buzzing like a hive....
Oct 3, 202310 min read

"The Atlas of Memory" by Mike Lee
"Before words can run out, something in the heart must die." —Alejandra Pizarnik Bella closed her eyes at the bar, and memory formed two...
Oct 3, 202318 min read

"Make Sure They Get Your Good Side Because Someday You’ll be Dead" by Margo Griffin
I paid close attention to those who barely paused and those who honored my mother and took their time and pointed, laughed, or even cried...
Oct 3, 20235 min read

"Wants to Talk" by Z.H. Gill
Life’s been so-so, been good enough: I’m working at the Ken Foree Chrysler/Jeep down on Lankershim Blvd., selling lemons to...
Sep 17, 20231 min read

"Lost Road" by Mark Rogers
When I drove for the Mano de Plata cartel, I had no interaction with the natural world. I walked on tile and cement, drank from aluminum...
Sep 17, 202316 min read

"Pretty Little Pictures" by Miranda Steinway
After driving for many hours, Chloe and I step out of the car to approach the Grand Canyon. Both of us are smelly and stiff from the...
Sep 3, 20234 min read

"The Ibanez" by Brad Austin
Dervis told me he wanted to “sleep on it” but after lunch, he’d already had an answer for me, so I guess he napped on his lunch break. He...
Aug 20, 202317 min read

"Mane Man" by Joe Giordano
I’m not talking baby curls but full-Jesus, gleaming-waxen-flaxen, back-to-the-sixties, personal-best lush. The waves of maturity. Gray to...
Aug 6, 20232 min read

"Ten in January" by Steve Passey
Being a teacher does not pay well. Being a teacher’s aide pays even less. Mostly the kids are fine, just loud. It’s small town school....
Jul 23, 20235 min read

"We Could Be Other People" by Nicholas Claro
That first time we screwed around with the possibility of insemination looming, I couldn’t focus. I kept thinking about the state of our...
Jul 9, 202321 min read

"Leona and Carol" by Janet Clare
It had been a month since Carol sent her friend Leona an email telling her about Brute, the dog Carol had recently rescued. She thought...
Jul 9, 20238 min read

"Progress" by Addison Zeller
A writing program would’ve whipped me into shape. I wouldn’t be so damn flabby. My stories wouldn’t start in the wrong place, right at...
Jul 9, 20232 min read

"Floodwatch '90" by Kristy Bell
March 13, 1990: Elba, AL Seven old men formed a straight-back chair semicircle around the wood stove in the store front of Bill’s...
Jul 9, 202329 min read
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