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September 3, 2024 | Fiction

The Nudist Colony

Philip Traylen

I have the feeling that, if she wished, Tiff could control me entirely through simple elbow voodoo; just a loose jet-lagged tilt and I would fall to the floor, start foaming at the mouth.

August 28, 2024 | Fiction

Selections from Diary 2023 to 2024

Arthur Sillers

She said she was mad because I portrayed her as a vaguely inconvenient antagonist side character.

August 28, 2024 | Fiction

Selections from Diary 2023 to 2024

Arthur Sillers

She said she was mad because I portrayed her as a vaguely inconvenient antagonist side character.

August 27, 2024 | Fiction

Tonic Water

Perrie Samotin

Nina got drunk every Thursday.

August 27, 2024 | Fiction

Tonic Water

Perrie Samotin

Nina got drunk every Thursday.

August 23, 2024 | Fiction

Danny's Dog

Josh Code

I wash the semen off of my hands in the pool.

August 23, 2024 | Fiction

Danny's Dog

Josh Code

I wash the semen off of my hands in the pool.

August 22, 2024 | Fiction

Excerpt of The Valeries: pages one and two

Forrest Muelrath

You will never truly know Valerie, because you will never find my son, nor hopefully want to after his trite art project that is endangering us all is laid to rest by what follows.

August 22, 2024 | Fiction

Excerpt of The Valeries: pages one and two

Forrest Muelrath

You will never truly know Valerie, because you will never find my son, nor hopefully want to after his trite art project that is endangering us all is laid to rest by what follows.

August 19, 2024 | Fiction

American Pastimes

Aida Riddle

It is a widely known fact that Arledge created Monday Night Football in conjunction with the American Suicide Watch as a way to stymie a flood of Monday night suicides.

August 19, 2024 | Fiction

American Pastimes

Aida Riddle

It is a widely known fact that Arledge created Monday Night Football in conjunction with the American Suicide Watch as a way to stymie a flood of Monday night suicides.

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 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,

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

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