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August 16, 2024 | Fiction

INDEPENDENT HORROR FILM

Matthew Ciazza

The only clothing I wore was an adult diaper to which almost every older male crew member made a comment.

August 14, 2024 | Fiction

Bell Peppers

Beth Preece

How I angled myself. How I smoke inside. How things leave impressions.

August 14, 2024 | Fiction

Bell Peppers

Beth Preece

How I angled myself. How I smoke inside. How things leave impressions.

August 13, 2024 | Fiction

Doubt Is a Hindrance

Alyssa Pelish

this an excerpt from a longer story...

August 13, 2024 | Fiction

Doubt Is a Hindrance

Alyssa Pelish

this an excerpt from a longer story...

August 9, 2024 | Fiction

DREAMS OF SOMETHING LESS AND THEN LONGER THAN YOUR LIFE

Christopher Zeischegg

I knew my assumption was flawed. Not all heterosexual fucking was violence.

August 9, 2024 | Fiction

DREAMS OF SOMETHING LESS AND THEN LONGER THAN YOUR LIFE

Christopher Zeischegg

I knew my assumption was flawed. Not all heterosexual fucking was violence.

August 6, 2024 | Fiction

Excerpt from The Princess of 72nd Street

Elaine Kraf

Sitting there and watching them I unexpectedly got the radiance. My body felt light as a flower, my breathing itself gave me great pleasure and my hair seemed to fly up and outward like wispy silk. I smiled and then laughed. Peter and Melita looked up and laughed also. Such musical sounds. Little bells.

August 6, 2024 | Fiction

Excerpt from The Princess of 72nd Street

Elaine Kraf

Sitting there and watching them I unexpectedly got the radiance. My body felt light as a flower, my breathing itself gave me great pleasure and my hair seemed to fly up and outward like wispy silk. I smiled and then laughed. Peter and Melita looked up and laughed also. Such musical sounds. Little bells.

July 31, 2024 | Fiction

The Monastery

Ara Hagopian

Like all bad people he is only bad for a millisecond at a time. 

July 31, 2024 | Fiction

The Monastery

Ara Hagopian

Like all bad people he is only bad for a millisecond at a time. 

July 29, 2024 | Fiction

Mirror Ball

Jack Skelley

The darkness of the nightclub is an airborne aphrodisiac, a medium fixating through more or less “real” encounters among empaths of mind, emotion and body. At their center is the glitter globe,

July 29, 2024 | Fiction

Mirror Ball

Jack Skelley

The darkness of the nightclub is an airborne aphrodisiac, a medium fixating through more or less “real” encounters among empaths of mind, emotion and body. At their center is the glitter globe,

July 23, 2024 | Fiction

A Loveless Man

Katie Rice

 

I hover above the toilet, my thighs rock hard as they hold my body in a seated position. The walls are covered in yellowing images of women from the 70s. Half-clothed, their nipples are big and

July 23, 2024 | Fiction

A Loveless Man

Katie Rice

 

I hover above the toilet, my thighs rock hard as they hold my body in a seated position. The walls are covered in yellowing images of women from the 70s. Half-clothed, their nipples are big and

July 12, 2024 | Fiction

Pay Pig

Erin AKA Suburban Cutie

On your knees, piggy Macy replied.

July 12, 2024 | Fiction

Pay Pig

Erin AKA Suburban Cutie

On your knees, piggy Macy replied.

June 20, 2024 | Fiction

In Heaven We Live In 2 Dimensions

Conor Truax

The West was declining, masculinity was dissolving into cotton-candy sky. There are few of our kind remaining… his brothers wrote in the Instagram comments of a masculinity influencer. Come with us now, the influencer had written. There are new worlds to save.

June 20, 2024 | Fiction

In Heaven We Live In 2 Dimensions

Conor Truax

The West was declining, masculinity was dissolving into cotton-candy sky. There are few of our kind remaining… his brothers wrote in the Instagram comments of a masculinity influencer. Come with us now, the influencer had written. There are new worlds to save.

June 18, 2024 | Fiction

Smoking

David Stillwagon

Maybe I was smoking all wrong, but it appeared that I needed another smoke.

June 18, 2024 | Fiction

Smoking

David Stillwagon

Maybe I was smoking all wrong, but it appeared that I needed another smoke.

June 17, 2024 | Fiction

BUD

Filip Fufezan

It’s been two weeks since our last contact.

Bud is either dead, on a bender, or has forgotten about me.

I pick up my iPhone.

 hey. I type.

The message bubble turns green.

Bud, what’s

June 17, 2024 | Fiction

BUD

Filip Fufezan

It’s been two weeks since our last contact.

Bud is either dead, on a bender, or has forgotten about me.

I pick up my iPhone.

 hey. I type.

The message bubble turns green.

Bud, what’s

June 14, 2024 | Fiction

Bird heart & The mother

Natalie Rose Richardson

Bird heart

I was hiking the canyons alone when a mountain lion appeared on the path in front of me. Needless to say I was surprised. I had never seen a mountain lion in the wild before, so you

June 14, 2024 | Fiction

Bird heart & The mother

Natalie Rose Richardson

Bird heart

I was hiking the canyons alone when a mountain lion appeared on the path in front of me. Needless to say I was surprised. I had never seen a mountain lion in the wild before, so you

Recent Books

Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub

Who Killed Mabel Frost?

Miss Unity

I thought I was unhappy as a man. Turns out I was just unhappy…