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Genius Loci
Brittany Ackerman
She imagined walking barefoot across the grass in the backyard, sitting in the hammock and reading that book her teacher from graduate school had published.
Dead Dog Spot
Cory Bennet
The landscape was a flat dimension, no mountains or hills. Farmland and ramshackle homes that looked like collages, you could see the years in them.
Culler Release Program
Joshua English
Usually I’d just as soon look away from cruelty, but Lemuel flung that chicken square at my face and my first instinct was to swat her, fretting her clipped wings and shrieking like a raspy old woman, down on the heads of the others. Simple reflex.
Shake-n-Bake Time
Tom Walsh
We laughed when he called it a “Shake-n-Bake,” but then looked nervously around the room; the crew veterans weren’t laughing.
Dates with Charlie
Julie Goldberg
Charlie would never cannibalize me; he’d have nothing to eat.
Meet 2020’s Most Nonessential Santas
Tyler Barton and Erin Dorney
This is the Santa crushing it on Etsy.
This is the Santa denied unemployment.
This is the Santa whose Zoom background brought his therapist to tears.
This Santa doesn’t give a shit—he’s a
This Christmas, We Will Celebrate Around a Cube
Rebecca van Laer
First, I visited my father’s house. After I returned home, my mother asked me to bring her there in the dark of night. We got on the highway, drove north, then took the second exit, but that was all I
Acting
Danny Lang-Perez
I’m now constructing a mental pool for how long these two can keep up the corporate veneer before they go insane or at least pop Gene in the teeth or at least say Okay you’re done no more pineapple and then whisk away the tray of pineapple Mom and I have not stopped noshing and ogling and noshing...
Acknowledgment
Tara Van De Mark
Dan disowned my sister and me via email a year ago
Dream Seafood Restaurant
Matt E. Lewis
The seafood restaurant in my dreams closed down last night.
Dry-Humping Andrea Schwartz
Eric Rosenblum
Margot and I had humped once, too, when I stopped by and Andrea wasn’t home.
A Problem Set
Lauren D. Woods
Why did Train A leave while Train B was still getting ready?
Today on Dagobah, Ep. 6: "Routine"
Josh Sippie
As Yoda sat on a tree stump, perfectly force-carved to complement his bony exterior and knobby joints, he realized that it had been five days in a row now that he had sat on this tree stump.
In Ram Corpse
Christopher Notarnicola
"He slept among a pile of used truck tires ..."
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!