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November 7, 2025 | Fiction

Portrait

Greg Gerke

Coming back to people after too many knuckled hours in books…and…it’s amazing to think I had two parents and they are now dead, in the shadow world, and maybe watching me continue to flail: look at bodies on the computer screen and eat too many tortilla chips.

November 7, 2025 | Fiction

Portrait

Greg Gerke

Coming back to people after too many knuckled hours in books…and…it’s amazing to think I had two parents and they are now dead, in the shadow world, and maybe watching me continue to flail: look at bodies on the computer screen and eat too many tortilla chips.

November 7, 2025 | Fiction

Mike's Hard Lemonade

Leya ivanov

Trying to kill my boyfriend’s dog. Drinking Mike’s Hard Lemonade

November 7, 2025 | Fiction

Mike's Hard Lemonade

Leya ivanov

Trying to kill my boyfriend’s dog. Drinking Mike’s Hard Lemonade

November 5, 2025 | Fiction

Photophobia

Crystal Taylor

Monica invites you to her church while you’re jumping rope. You’ve never been, and she tells you they mostly eat donuts and play, and talk about the bible sometimes, but just a little. Since donuts

November 5, 2025 | Fiction

Photophobia

Crystal Taylor

Monica invites you to her church while you’re jumping rope. You’ve never been, and she tells you they mostly eat donuts and play, and talk about the bible sometimes, but just a little. Since donuts

October 30, 2025 | Fiction

Passing Over

Selen

The most unforgivable thing I’ve done that didn’t involve sex or lying was today, I was wiping the track before the next train and this man was squelched black in bone tatters in the middle, and I

October 30, 2025 | Fiction

Passing Over

Selen

The most unforgivable thing I’ve done that didn’t involve sex or lying was today, I was wiping the track before the next train and this man was squelched black in bone tatters in the middle, and I

October 27, 2025 | Fiction

Two Stories

Eric T. Racher

Why the fuck would a seventeen-year-old girl from Akron, Ohio say something like that? Why would that even be in her repertoire?

October 27, 2025 | Fiction

Two Stories

Eric T. Racher

Why the fuck would a seventeen-year-old girl from Akron, Ohio say something like that? Why would that even be in her repertoire?

October 27, 2025 | Fiction

Static 

Elizabeth Austin

Six-thirty in the morning on this, the thirty-fourth birthday to pass, and there’s metal scraping against metal outside the window. A screech heard over fake rain blaring from the noise machine and

October 27, 2025 | Fiction

Static 

Elizabeth Austin

Six-thirty in the morning on this, the thirty-fourth birthday to pass, and there’s metal scraping against metal outside the window. A screech heard over fake rain blaring from the noise machine and

October 23, 2025 | Fiction

Masseuse Obligations

Brianna Di Monda

This is what we tell ourselves about places like this: that they belong only to a certain New York, a New York of discrete transactions and brass plaques reading “Jeffrey E. Epstein Corporation.”

October 23, 2025 | Fiction

Masseuse Obligations

Brianna Di Monda

This is what we tell ourselves about places like this: that they belong only to a certain New York, a New York of discrete transactions and brass plaques reading “Jeffrey E. Epstein Corporation.”

October 22, 2025 | Fiction

Plastic Clapboard Siding

David Dewey

But even when I felt ashamed for liking her, I also saw her as somehow supernaturally chosen for me. She rejected me from the moment we met. 

October 22, 2025 | Fiction

Plastic Clapboard Siding

David Dewey

But even when I felt ashamed for liking her, I also saw her as somehow supernaturally chosen for me. She rejected me from the moment we met. 

October 21, 2025 | Fiction

Dumbshits at Weird Fucks

Nick Dove

I love idiots. Or at least some of them anyway.

October 21, 2025 | Fiction

Dumbshits at Weird Fucks

Nick Dove

I love idiots. Or at least some of them anyway.

October 15, 2025 | Fiction

Davis 6

Benjamin Willems

What was I supposed to do on Friday nights when there was nothing to celebrate?

October 15, 2025 | Fiction

Davis 6

Benjamin Willems

What was I supposed to do on Friday nights when there was nothing to celebrate?

October 14, 2025 | Fiction

Persian Rug

Jacqueline G.

That day I let him touch me in his car on the side of the train tracks outside of town.

October 14, 2025 | Fiction

Persian Rug

Jacqueline G.

That day I let him touch me in his car on the side of the train tracks outside of town.

October 13, 2025 | Fiction

Rapture

Danielle Chelosky

Her favorite video was one of a girl getting fucked during a Zoom meeting.

October 13, 2025 | Fiction

Rapture

Danielle Chelosky

Her favorite video was one of a girl getting fucked during a Zoom meeting.

October 10, 2025 | Fiction

Fish Man

Alexandra Levy

No one has dared come to my front door. No one has dared to meet me face to face. 

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

Her Lesser Work

Elizabeth Ellen

"[Her Lesser Work] is a collection of mordant and formally inventive stories circling themes of, let’s say, desire and escape within repressive structures."

      -Walker Caplan, Literary Hub