"VS Naipaul’s Ghost Haunts POC characters of White Authors" by Shahriar Shaams
The late Trinidadian author’s ghost has lately been observed hovering around the merry colored-creations of several well-meaning white...
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- Apr 30
- 9 min
"Save the Big One" by Michael Lenart
Harris Caldwell—retired public defender; amateur woodworker; frequent apple juice drinker; thrice-a-day tooth brusher—died just now in...
- Apr 30
- 9 min
"The Process" by Jillian S. Benedict and Michael Cocchiarale
We talk a lot about process—not outcome—and trying to consistently take all the best information you can and consistently make good...
- Apr 30
- 5 min
"Rocks" by Tyler Plofker
I've been stacking rocks. Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary—I don't know. We learned that in school last year, yes, sure, but I don't...
- Apr 16
- 13 min
"My Ninth Birthday" by Ben Shahon
I remember my ninth birthday like it was yesterday, because I woke up that morning, and I started to wonder when my mom and dad would...
- Apr 16
- 1 min
"All the Single Women" by Christine H. Chen
All the Single Women were invited to the pilot program of HappilyEverAfter where the newly invented HomoSapiens module would spit out...
- Apr 2
- 7 min
"Hunger in the Blizzard" by Mark Tulin
Hunger doesn't always jive with common sense. I guess that's why I went out into a February blizzard to the grocery store when it would...
- Feb 19
- 10 min
"Issue #43: The Supervillain Zoom Interview" by Joshua Grasso
One by one, the headshots popped to life on the Zoom conference which was supposed to have started promptly at 12:30 (it was 6 minutes...
- Feb 19
- 9 min
"Dime Mouth" By Tyler Plofker
I sit down at the diner and order a cold blueberry pancake and wait for Jenny, who asked me via text to go sit down at the diner and...
- Feb 19
- 9 min
"I am a plastic bag" by Lorna Collins
My name is Gavin. My claim to fame is that I am reusable. I can be filled with shopping, time and time again. Multiple use is my raison...
- Feb 5
- 2 min
"Mandela Effect" by Niles Reddick
After five o’clock, we got together at La Siesta for margaritas, fajitas, and tacos to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and someone asked what...
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
"The Book Inside My Father" by Eugene O'Toole
My father always said he had a book inside him. As a child I had no idea what he meant, naturally being far more preoccupied with Meccano...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
“Questions on the Reading” by Kate Deimling
1) Discuss the theme of butterflies. What do they represent? 2) What does this story tell us about the role soup/gender/usury plays in...
- Nov 27, 2022
- 1 min
"Genome for Commercial Taste" by Christopher Collingwood
My dreams were served with Cabernet – seduction by commercial taste, peeling vanity off the apple’s core, taking away unwanted skin,...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 4 min
“Concerning Knives, Bears, Drawers, Sharpness and Shitting” by Scott O’Neill
Does a Bear shit in the woods? Sometimes. Usually, even; but not today and not this Bear. I’m going to break into this cabin and shit in...
- Nov 13, 2022
- 8 min
"Appetite" by Mike Hickman
Matt hoped to God he wasn't wearing the Cookie Monster T-shirt. While he might be able to afford one or two minor embarrassments today,...
- Oct 2, 2022
- 16 min
“The Placer” by Tim Brown
Albert grunted as he rowed the last hundred feet towards the blank shore. It wouldn’t be blank for long. Soon it’d be teeming with more...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 9 min
"News from Lake Amnesia" by Jack Garvey
The Holiday Party When friends asked me to join them at a Christmas party, I didn't want to go empty-handed, and I had no idea what the...
- Jun 27, 2022
- 4 min
"A Question of Life" by DJ Tyrer
“This is most irregular. Most irregular, indeed.” The judge pushed his tiny glasses up his nose and looked at the petitioning lawyer....
- Apr 3, 2022
- 8 min
"I Could Have Been a Tallboy" by Mike Hickman
Tallboys, Tony told me, came in dove grey and Chantilly grey and London oak and Rutland oak and more varieties than most people might...
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