"Foulpuddle-in-the-Marsh, An Intimate History" by Patience Mackarness
All roads to Foulpuddle are dead ends. The sooner this dump is swallowed up by the sea, the better. So dull, even migrating birds don’t...
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- 6 days ago
- 2 min
"Aces and Eights" by J. S. O'Keefe
…for I have sinned. My last confession was over a year ago. Since then I’ve committed a myriad of sins. When I drink I tend to gossip,...
- Aug 18
- 4 min
"No Sweat" by Jeremy Boyce
I was sitting in a deckchair, taking the last rays of the evening, they’re the best ones, coming in under the ozone layer at the end of...
- Aug 18
- 3 min
"Because we don’t know how to lose" & "Violet" by Eirene Gentle
Because we don’t know how to lose Because we don’t know how to lose we lie in bedrooms feet splayed against ice cream tinted walls, pink...
- Aug 18
- 2 min
"The Impossibility of Katrina" by Elizabeth Rosen
I could show you a photo, but it wouldn’t tell you about the green, sick smell of the rotted glue of the peeling wallpaper, black mold...
- Aug 18
- 3 min
"Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed" by Kathryn Kulpa
Brandy Wore a braided chain, but it wasn’t silver and it wasn’t from Spain, it was from Delia’s. Ninth-grade Brandy was who we all...
- Aug 18
- 4 min
"Me and Bob Dylan at the Golden Suds on Arapahoe" by Lisa Thornton
I just moved here and I’m renting a room in that apartment with the engineer and his Rottweiler. There’s no washing machine so I spend...
- Aug 18
- 2 min
"When You Book Us a Tarot Reading After Your Death" & "Miss Havisham Teaches English" by Hema Nataraju
When You Book Us a Tarot Reading After Your Death... I show up, you are still my sister after all. You say I’m late, but it’s easy for...
- Aug 4
- 3 min
"Tired of Tinder Titbits" by Lizzie Eldridge
He was a bit rough around the edges, but he’d do. You were bored of one-night stands, of being ghosted, of being told how [insert] clever...
- Aug 4
- 2 min
"The Lexicon of Life" by Rachel Canwell
One downward sweeping stroke, barely kissed by two concave, backwards curls. Not quite a letter, a character unrecognizable, even to me....
- Aug 4
- 2 min
"A Trick, Sure Enough" by Elizabeth Rosen
The boxed baby was just over nine inches long. Pink-skinned. Pert. In the sunlight streaming through the high cedar branches, the woman...
- Jul 21
- 2 min
"Return to Work" by Deepti Nalavade Mahule
Rush hour morning traffic on a weekday with the freeway resembling a parking lot. On the passenger seat of a car: a work bag, a lunch bag...
- Jul 21
- 4 min
"Cahoots" by David Henson
For their fifth anniversary, Melinda suggests she and her husband, Martin, spice things up by parking in a secluded lane by the lake. The...
- Jul 21
- 4 min
"Hurley's House" by M. Rose Seaboldt
“It’s perfect!” Johnny Hurley and Robbie Decker stood in front of a small, rundown house that was surrounded by overgrown weeds and...
- Jul 21
- 1 min
"Irreversible" by John Szamosi
After listening to a speech on injustice, Cannon Fodder decided to petition the Council to turn him back into young people. He went to...
- Jul 21
- 2 min
"Pronunciation is Everything" by Laura Cooney
The Westwood Crochet Club had been running in the town of Newbattle Hove for decades. The three founding members had done no more than...
- Jul 7
- 2 min
"Dreki" by Kathy Hoyle
Marta stares into the fissure, flinching as the heat blisters her cheeks. Her boy, Kristjan, has been missing for eleven days now, ever...
- Jul 7
- 1 min
"Best Intentions" by Megan Hanlon
When heavy rains come, the driveways and sidewalks flood with earthworms. Long, skinny, pink ones; fat, short brown ones. Together but...
- Jul 7
- 2 min
"Suppose Gertrude" by Graham Robert Scott
Suppose Gertrude, instead of saying yes, answers no. Oh, she thinks it through, in a long silence that go-between Polonius fills with...
- Jul 7
- 4 min
"God on the Highway" by Swetha Amit
It was dark and rainy on the highway. Raindrops trickled on the windshield. Ma periodically put the wipers on. The roads were filled with...
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