"Saying the Name" by Sudha Subramanian
TW: Domestic Abuse She dipped the plastic pot into the water trough and heaved it out, pouring it on herself. Soft ripples streamed down...
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- Sep 5, 2022
- 3 min
"Before the Thrill" by Amy Lyons
The man dove his fork into a sea of spaghetti, twirled a fat skein, slurped the wet tails that uncoiled in transit. “Dry cleaning,” the...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
"Pricks" by Taylor Arnette
A song about soaking in the sun plays over the loudspeakers. I wait in the aisle with the wrists braces and heating pads and watch the...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 4 min
“Boarding School” by Jennifer Dickinson
On the last day I saw her, Reed snuck me a picture. I don’t know how she had one. They’d taken everything from our old lives away. Reed...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 2 min
"Spontaneous" by Avra Margariti
The Clown King finds herself next in a city where people spontaneously combust into a flurry of confetti. Cherry-blossom pink and white,...
- Aug 22, 2022
- 1 min
“Nose Ring” by Karen Arnold
Late afternoon heat makes a jungle of the canal. Curtained by purple Himalayan balsam, carpeted with sulphur yellow water lilies. The...
- Aug 21, 2022
- 2 min
"Momentarily Neither Here Nor There. Until We Are." by Laura Cooney
I sit, You sit, We sit. You’re talking, I’m listening. I can clearly see your lips moving and I can hear the individual words you’re...
- Aug 21, 2022
- 2 min
"Mira" by Amelia David
When I think about the day we met our daughter, I can only recall how much my stomach hurt. I had spent a better part of that morning...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
“The River's Gift” by Phyllis Rittner
October, seven months after the world stopped, I walk the path by heart. To my left, the river reflects a chalk blue sky as leaves ripple...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 3 min
"Courage" by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
We’re walking down a narrow alley when the people on the balconies above us begin to applaud. Not sure why we might be so entertaining,...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 3 min
“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...
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
“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, 2022
- 2 min
"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, 2022
- 2 min
"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, 2022
- 3 min
"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, 2022
- 3 min
"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, 2022
- 2 min
"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, 2022
- 2 min
"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, 2022
- 2 min
"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, 2022
- 3 min
"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...
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