"A Midwest Pizza" by Kyle Manning
The house in Madison was loud and crowded with my aunt’s granddaughters, who were home indefinitely from school. Mom and I ended up...
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- Aug 20, 2023
- 3 min
"Bedspace" by David Cook
When Anne and Gareth first got together, they’d squeezed into Gareth’s single student bed, clinging onto each other tightly, a mass of...
- Aug 6, 2023
- 27 min
"Happy are the Dogheads" by Dan Brotzel
Hey-hey-hey! I like it when the sun rises early and the day is bright and warm, long into the afternoon. The earth is happy in the...
- Aug 6, 2023
- 12 min
"Mark the Lesser" by Sean MacKendrick
“Hi, table for one, please?” The hostess looked up from her phone, startled. She could be new, Mark had never seen her before. “Oh!” She...
- Jul 23, 2023
- 2 min
"Bluebird" by Kevin Brennan
She always loved airports. Her dad, robbed of having a son among his three children, used to take her to the parking area at the end of...
- Jun 25, 2023
- 18 min
"Surprise Party" by Kait Leonard
Glorianne stared into Gavin’s vacant eyes. “Don’t go, my love,” she whispered, willing her words to bring him back to her. She felt the...
- Jun 11, 2023
- 6 min
"Chili" by Elijah Woodruff
CW: Abuse The chili was burning. She had set the burner too hot and hadn’t noticed. Her own mother would have called her a terrible cook....
- May 13, 2023
- 26 min
"Isaiah Monkford" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
In setting down this story of my son, Isaiah Monkford, I, Dane Alexander Bettingsley, am guilty of a bit of a misnomer. Because it isn’t...
- Apr 30, 2023
- 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 2, 2023
- 8 min
"Tolstoy 2.0" by Yelena Furman
Anna Karenina didn’t die under a train. She divorced her husband and lives with Vronsky and their daughter, Annie, in St. Petersburg. She...
- Apr 2, 2023
- 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...
- Mar 19, 2023
- 10 min
"Neat Neat Neat" by Mike Lee
On the drive to Austin, when Katerina passed the Brenham exit, the anxiety hit, and the verbal processing commenced. “We have only four...
- Mar 19, 2023
- 9 min
"New Years Kiss" by Alex J. Barrio
It’s New Year’s Eve and I’ve been single for way too long. Well, not like way too long, but definitely a long time, depending on how you...
- Jan 22, 2023
- 5 min
"Voyager Bay" by Barbara Lock
Father threw me off the sailboat, gripped the rudder with his left hand, did something with the rope in his clean, right palm. The boat...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 12 min
“Flowers Bloom in Bardo” by Jack Moody
There was another new one today. The man rose from bed, feeling the bandages covering his body. The white carnation had bloomed out of...
- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
“And Other Things to Do While Stuck in Traffic” by R. Tim Morris
In the rearview he watches the couple arguing. He adjusts the mirror and leans back, a wide-screen performance just for him. The woman is...
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
"Magical Thinking" by Travis Flatt
I wish I could enjoy the stars, but I waste time out here worrying. “Can you get my wife on my phone?” I ask mission control, but the...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 9 min
“Kewpie Mommy” by Taylor Haynes
The women at the babyshower are all very beautiful. They hold bagels and pink, slimy lox on porcelain plates. They sip mimosas out of...
- Oct 20, 2022
- 6 min
“Obituary” by Sarah Clayville
Morbid curiosity compels us to do strange and awful things. I sit at the Magnolia Café tucked in the odd space between lunch and dinner,...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 8 min
"Shoulders" by Beth Kanter
Anna exhaled her ten-hour day and reached for the doorknob. The wobbly chair she expected to encounter, the one Papa Sol insisted Ettie...
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