“Third Generation” by George Oliver
They start innocuous, as playful mispronunciations of my surname. I blink and the interactions have escalated to being pinned against a...
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Aug 7, 20222 min read
“In the house..” by Anita Goveas
…the man and the woman live without speaking. They’ve turned their attention elsewhere. In the spare room, the woman feeds calciworms to...
Jul 10, 20222 min read
"Slow Burn" by Mar Ovsheid
The Combustión Lenta chile is a little bomb I swallowed when I was 23 and still absolutely positive I’d live forever, or at the very...
Jul 10, 20222 min read
"Better To Burn Out" by Samuel Edwards
CW: death/suicide. A bird of flame. A beast of heat. Mythical and magical with a dash of elegance. The Phoenix soars the open skies on a...
Jul 10, 20223 min read
"A Hot Day on the Prairie, an Unhappy Girl and a Fly" by Maria Thomas
There’s a bovine fly on the screen-door, ripe as a gooseberry and glistening with blood. Mercy ignores the white-noise buzz, cuts the...
Jul 10, 20223 min read
"Wish Upon A Satellite" by E.M. Lark
I tasted summer on her lips. Cotton candy, chapstick, cherry Coke with rum. Her hands met the shorelines of my hips and I was done for. I...
Jun 27, 20222 min read
"Go Fish" by Sherry Cassells
My father told me if I wanted to catch fish I had to think like a fish except he said it with an r like frish and an extra s and h like...
Jun 27, 20222 min read
"Crows Have Surrounded Her House for a Week Now" by Karen Gonzalez-Videla
In the mornings, they step on the rotten branches of her used-to-be vegetable garden and sneak their beaks into the holes within them;...
Jun 27, 20222 min read
"Haircut; An Attempt At Something Significant" by Mugdhaa Ranade
Snip. Onomatopoeia. Except, when you are an amateur attempting to cut hair for the first time, it sounds more like: Sss-nn-iii-p. No,...
Jun 27, 20223 min read
"sweet services" by Karl Khumo Calagan
The funeral home I worked at began as an anomaly. Before Sweet Services popped up at the corner of the town’s only intersection, funeral...
Jun 12, 20225 min read
"When Medzmama’s Eyes Sparkle, You Know to Watch Your Back" by Lindy Biller
“Don’t be shy,” she says. “I’ve got a surprise for you!” You are six, and Medzmama is sitting on that big woven carpet with the cranes...
Jun 12, 20222 min read
"Little Man" by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra
When I am a man, I will wear tuxedos to school, and a top hat, and say “Good day” to every person that I meet, even if I don’t know what...
Jun 12, 20222 min read
"Halfway There" by Robert Scott
‘Fifty!’ she shouts into the phone. ‘It’s like my life’s over. It’s going to be illness, declining powers, and slipping away. Every day...
Jun 12, 20224 min read
"Roswell/Nebraska" by Franny Mestrich
I wanted to see an alien so I drove out to Roswell, but they didn’t realize I was looking for them until after I left town. It was three...
Jun 12, 20223 min read
"Mac, Beth" by Patrick Nevins
They were sitting on the back deck in the dying light, Mac drinking Scotch, Beth reading the paper. They’d been there for hours,...
May 29, 20223 min read
"The Secret Life of Dance Shoes" by Cecilia Kennedy
Dance shoes awaken to jolts and pounding, shaken alive on the factory floor. In our case, we were also enveloped in a strange mist that...
May 29, 20223 min read
"Iris" by Mar Ovsheid
There were worms in Trajuni’s eyes, but she ignored them for a few weeks because she had too much laundry busying her arms. She had too...
May 29, 20223 min read
"Pneuma" by Sebastian Vice
The sun beat down on my dangling corpse. With visitors long since gone, I’m left in isolation, suffocating on a cross. Don’t call me a...
May 1, 20222 min read
"Laugh All You Want but I See the Truth" by Keely O'Shaughnessy
I can sense the sceptics. Those who are only after a show, something to tell their friends, a story for their blog post: Ten Most Common...
May 1, 20224 min read
"Twin Towers" by Don Stoll
An aide told the press that his boss had rejected the idea of having His image added to Mount Rushmore because South Dakota was “a...
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