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"The Black Window" by Brett Pribble
It hovers in the sky like a baby killer whale. I avoid day light because at night it’s harder to make out, but it’s still unmistakable....
Sep 282 min read


"Fields" by Agata Antonow
You’re eight and at a Pick-Your-Own farm in Southern Ontario, the sun pressing down the part in your hair until it feels like one long...
Sep 283 min read


"Going Down Easy" by A.D. Schweiss
A dog-eared rag of duct tape flaps on our plane’s wing outside my window as we take off; my cell signal falling away with the earth,...
Sep 284 min read


"Seeing Stars" by Jude Potts
Remember the night we fell in love? A pebble beach under us, stars above. I leaned in to kiss you and tasted beer and sea salt. Lying on...
Sep 283 min read


"Lifestyle" by AJ Maiorana
You've never known what it felt like to fuck someone like you hate them. She tries her hardest to convince this stranger dressed as a nun...
Aug 312 min read


"Amy's Blue Period" by Travis Flatt
Amy talks to the space behind the refrigerator now. And she only wears blue. When her mother dresses her in the morning, any unblue...
Jul 304 min read


"The Non-Denominational Government Exorcist Makes His Rounds" by H. A. Eugene
He sat next to the elderly pilot’s hospital bed, hand raised in absolution as he read from the approved script: “Benevolent spirit,...
Jul 301 min read


"Most Intricate" by Andrea Damic
If only you could pretend you don’t care about the superficially courteous relationship with your in-laws who also pretend to have risen...
Jul 303 min read


"Family Tree" by Johannes Springenseiss
The detainees in the large holding cell appear rather harmless, probably students, laborers, middle-aged professionals. If anything, I...
Jun 302 min read


"This Sentence is False Whether You Like It or Not" & "The Story of the Last Thing..." by Ben Shahon
This Sentence is False, Whether You Like It or Not This (1) Sentence (2) is (3) False (4) ,Whether (5) You (6) Like (7) It (8)...
Jun 303 min read


"At the End of the World, You Love Whenever You Can" by JP Relph
Early on, when food remains on ransacked shelves and you can find still-crisp apples rolled into dusty shadows and your mouth fills with...
May 263 min read


"Mars Needs (More) Women" by LM Fontanes
At the time, it seemed like a great idea and really cheap when you work out interest rates on a brand new partner every 325 Earth days,...
Apr 273 min read


"Un-selfish-ing" by Kat Meads
In child terms: share candy. Step in front of no one. When a whine or sob bubbles up in the throat, swallow hard . Do not call attention....
Apr 12 min read


"That Guy" by Robin Wilder
Sometimes, Morgan thinks about the movie American Beauty . Not necessarily about the movie, and definitely not Kevin Spacey, but about...
Apr 12 min read


"Sometimes Billy is an Elephant" by Francine Witte
Sometimes Billy is an Elephant. Sometimes not. When Billy is an elephant, he is trunk and tusk and floppy ears, and he never forgets that...
Feb 232 min read


"No Point" by Andrew Careaga
“I don’t get it,” she said, and shot him a puzzled look as she dropped the notebook between them on the sofa. It was his notebook. His...
Feb 233 min read


"The Past Moves With You" by Ed Teja
Bright morning light streamed through the bedroom window, waking Ben from his dream. Sitting up, he rubbed his toes in the plush Berber...
Feb 232 min read


"Roquefort" by Michelle Furnace Brosius
I hunt through the soft cheeses for a chunk of Roquefort. Cheese shouldn't be the focus—not French cheese, not at Whole Foods—the...
Jan 263 min read


"Be Reaved" by Boyd Blackwood
Standing on the front porch is a little bright-eyed wren of a woman with a nimbus of untamed white curls; she’s wearing a black dress...
Jan 264 min read


"Sitting in Front of Your Casket, Contemplating Family Dynamics Via Comic-Book Sound Effects" by Sharon Boyle
My daughter – your Wham-bam! granddaughter – has become an almost-stranger with her Bif-boom! attitudes and Kerpow! moods . The distance...
Jan 261 min read
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