"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...
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- 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...
- Jul 7
- 2 min
"Beyond (1988)" by David Yourdon
My grandfather went on a fishing trip in the country around New Paltz. “He caught nine rainbow trout!” There was pride and a vestige of...
- Jul 7
- 2 min
"For someone better at small talk" by Karen Walker
For someone better at small talk it would've been as easy as pie to delight while standing in line at the bakery behind a woman and a...
- Jul 7
- 2 min
"Top Cat" by Mary Anne Mc Enery
A black cat with piercing yellow eyes leaped out the window of a suburban house, shattering glass in his wake. "Great entrance,...
- Jul 7
- 4 min
"The Neighbourhood Watch" by Mathew Gostelow
CW: Violence When the beatings began, I wondered if I should intervene. But we were waiting for our new fridge to be delivered, and that...
- Jul 7
- 4 min
"Roach" by Benjamin Ray Allee
There was a roach on Gracie’s upturned back when she woke. Her eyes opened to slivers of afternoon light cutting onto the sheets from her...
- Jun 23
- 2 min
"What the Serial Killer Said" by Arthur Mandal
There’s a brand of packaged dates called ‘Deri Dates’. Tesco does them. Allow me a moment to express the disgust and repulsion this...
- Jun 23
- 3 min
"The Night Jane Didn’t Come Out of The Chair" by Kate Faigen
“When I saw you in half tonight,” Dustin said through beef-jerky breath, “I think I’m actually gonna saw you in half.” Jane smirked,...
- Jun 23
- 1 min
"In the Gynecologist’s Waiting Room, Aunt Flo Reads Female Frogs and Dragonflies May Feign Death to Avoid Mating" by Mikki Aronoff
When Jake’s home randy from trucking and candy, Flo’s amphibious—a moist, round thing. She sticks her skinny limbs out rigid—her rigor...
- Jun 23
- 2 min
"The Over-Rated Importance of Sound" by Foster Trecost
We moved on Tuesday but didn’t unpack right away. Mom said the boxes made it look like we had more furniture so we left them taped up and...
- Jun 23
- 3 min
"True romance" by Sandra Arnold
When Chloe came home from school she spotted another pile of romance novels by the side of her mother’s chair. She picked one up from the...
- Jun 23
- 4 min
"Killer" by Brandon Doughty
He came to in an instant, like someone flipped a breaker. Sitting up, he looked around wondering where he was. This thought led him to...
- Jun 9
- 2 min
"Not like the movies" by Jac Morris
‘We made a pact,’ the Devil says. He’s here in black and white, like a young Cary Grant. Top hat and tails. Tombstone teeth. Tommy,...
- Jun 9
- 2 min
"Wednesdays With Alicia" by Adi Kalidindi
On Wednesdays, we pound wine. By six o’clock, my wife and I are three or four glasses deep six depending on who you ask), as we lie in...
- May 27
- 4 min
"Bon Appétit" by Grace Black
Wednesday. A day. Not unlike the middle class and its acceptance of subpar success. A perfectly overlooked day in the strictest sense....
- May 27
- 3 min
"Side A: Violent Femmes" by Sabrina Hicks
We sat in our rooms with the new Violent Femmes cassette tape, rewinding the part where Gordon Gano sings about why he can’t get just one...
- May 27
- 2 min
"Out of stock" by Eleonora Balsano
Yesterday sadness hit me in the condiment aisle, my cart still empty save the unseasonal raspberries I will forget in the fridge, watch...
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