"October November" by Anna Fernandes
She’s out here again, head bowed, trying to scrape up our dead skin cells. Or maybe not skin, but hair or coughed-up fragments of lung....
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- Nov 26
- 2 min
"Dead Sea Scrolls" by Geoffrey Bunting
1. When Madee and I split, all I thought about was the language we lost. Words that I was no longer allowed to speak because they were...
- Nov 26
- 3 min
"Consequences" by Lucy Brighton
“They’re here again. Alfred! Can you bloody believe it?” I twitch open the curtains, “The girl is licking the walls, does nobody teach...
- Nov 12
- 2 min
"What will happen to memories when The Cloud bursts" by Tom Walsh
The photos sparkle as they fall, the birthday candles and wedding cakes and fireworks and nightclubs and rainbows. I scoop a baby shower...
- Nov 12
- 4 min
"The Suffocation of the Mother" by Jennifer Ostopovich
It began with a subtle tightening in my throat. The middle-aged man in the grocery store queue placed his hand on my midsection with...
- Nov 12
- 3 min
"Body Parts" by Sandra Arnold
On Cadence’s 12th birthday, as she blew out the candles on her cake, one of her uncles told her it was time she learned to smile. The...
- Oct 15
- 3 min
"That" by Kerry Langan
The neighborhood infiltrated us, penetrated our skin, became an invisible infection coursing in our blood. The narrow streets and cracked...
- Oct 15
- 3 min
"Nipple Gun with Breastmilk Shots" by Alice Kinerk
A woman with the ability to shoot milk from her nipples was arrested for assault Tuesday after temporarily blinding Congressman Roger...
- Oct 15
- 2 min
"Little" by Thao Votang
The first time I meet your baby, it spits up milk on my shirt. We might as well call it what it is. Vomit. Baby vomit. A spray of who...
- Oct 3
- 4 min
"We Ate and Ate into Extinction" by Janice Leadingham
CW: Reference to indecent exposure/sexual harassment Before the thing with the man on the street, she picks the blue cotton dress because...
- Oct 3
- 4 min
"Forming a Bruise" by Alison L Fraser
My high school boyfriend leans on me, the full weight of him disarming the rhythm of our steps as we walk home from school. The worn...
- Sep 17
- 3 min
"Heuristical Me" by William M. McIntosh
I got a message from you last night. It said you felt a lot of crazy ways that I didn’t know you felt, and it said a lot more than that....
- Sep 17
- 4 min
"Cindy" by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
When I first received the call, I thought it was a scam. Who would believe that Her Late Majesty the Queen had left behind not just a...
- Sep 17
- 3 min
"We don’t talk about the weakest ones" by Shareen K. Murayama
On the most prolonged day of the year, a line of five-year olds stand sea-facing. They used to call it jumping rock: a plume of ancient...
- Sep 3
- 2 min
"A Sensual Person" by Jessica Almereyda
I'm a sensual person and I know where you live. So when I'm walking in your direction on my way home from work, I fleetingly consider...
- Sep 3
- 1 min
"Don’t Look" by Mary Grimm
I’ve always been sitting at this kitchen table, even when I haven’t. My life: ash from a cigarette, swirl of torn paper. His name was… ....
- Aug 20
- 2 min
"We Cover Street Preachers in Rainbows" by Katy Goforth
The early October air in the south feels like molasses. But it’s one of the last outdoor festivals of the season, so I push through the...
- Aug 20
- 2 min
"Blind Eyes And Wandering Hands" by Alison Wassell
Hannah’s dad holds the local paper close to his cataract-clouded eyes and cries when he reads about Ken Todd. Dabbing his face with a...
- Aug 6
- 1 min
"Waiting Man" by Willow Page Delp
Technically speaking, it is night. However, despite the chronological truth of the statement (a quick glance at his watch offers the...
- Aug 6
- 3 min
"Winterized" by Vasilios Moschouris
The key was right where I left it, beneath the loose brick in the path that led up to the door, but I left it gleaming gold in the black...
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