"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...
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Mar 31 min read
"A Father’s Song" by Karen Crawford
My father played guitar at night. Sometimes, I’d peek out my bedroom door to listen. He’d sit in an old velvet chair, his guitar like a...
Mar 32 min read
"Whitecaps" by Meg Tuite
Blasted by winds of silent rage, this would be nothing less than a tsunami. No trees left standing. The Northeastern constricted...
Feb 182 min read
"Imprint" by Justine Payton
Hold tight. Let go. Paper cuts. Finger pricks. Knuckles jam. Bones smash. Muddy nails. Palms on an oak burl. Dandelion yellow. White snow...
Feb 41 min read
"Photo Booth" by Sarah Kartalia
For the icebreaker activity at the workshop we have to introduce ourselves to the group by imagining that our life is summed up in a...
Jan 281 min read
"Making the World a Better Place" by Eliot S Ku
When the self-driving vehicle was in a bad accident but still in drivable condition, it selfishly bypassed the local hospital on its way...
Jan 71 min read
"Pupa" by Elena Zhang
We cocooned ourselves in our sleeping bags, still high from the marshmallows and campfire smoke, seeking warmth from polyester fiber...
Jan 72 min read
"Vacuum" by B F Jones
Content Warning: Suicide/Death 13th of October 1989 was the day mum vacuumed the Lego. I remember the date, because it was the day after...
Jan 42 min read
"ANAGKH (FATE)" by JS O'Keefe
Why such an intelligent-looking physically strong young guy is behind the counter selling sandwiches at the airport? When I ask him to...
Jan 41 min read
Three 25-Word Stories by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
Elixir He took the pills dutifully. She thought they were cyanide. Turned out to be Cialis. She decided to give the old bastard a second...
Nov 12, 20231 min read
"My mother, myself" by Bonnie Meekums
We have slipped on ice and toys. We have slipped out of our clothes, dog tired at the end of the day. We have slipped an extra tablet...
Nov 12, 20233 min read
"Bad News", "Little Manila", & "Boys" by Alex Romero
Bad News You seen them boys before? You know the ones, those three boys from the borough of Queens who pedal down the street machine-gun...
Oct 15, 20231 min read
"Profile Photos" by Sam Szanto
I selected a table as if I were buying it, cleared a lipsticked memento of a previous meeting, held onto my phone. Stared through a...
Oct 3, 20231 min read
"Ending with a line from Peter and Wendy" by Cathy Ulrich
Robot baby is put in a crib at night. It bows, bows, bows under Robot baby’s weight. In the dark, Robot baby glows like a lonely firefly....
Aug 6, 20231 min read
"Waiting Man" by Willow Page Delp
Technically speaking, it is night. However, despite the chronological truth of the statement (a quick glance at his watch offers the...
Jul 9, 20232 min read
"Progress" by Addison Zeller
A writing program would’ve whipped me into shape. I wouldn’t be so damn flabby. My stories wouldn’t start in the wrong place, right at...
Jun 25, 20232 min read
"Ink" by Flavia Brunetti
I am a rational human, he says, tapping his chest. My eyes follow his fingers. I think, what does it mean then, that I am not? I had...
Jun 11, 20232 min read
"Promenade Through a British Graveyard" by Lisa Alletson
Silverfish twist through crevices in the Escomb church walls. Alive in the shadows. Centuries of insects slick with Saxon blood. They...
May 28, 20231 min read
"CRUSH" by Karen Crawford
We're all lips and limbs under a velvet blanket when my crush's mother barges in, she’s all hands when she yells whaddya youse doing,...
Apr 30, 20234 min read
"The Ninth Life of Hel" by M. Rose Seaboldt
Hel is perched in the large bay window of Hemlock Tattoo Removal. Her serpentine tail curls around her, flicking in time with the sound...
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