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April 19, 2023 | Fiction

tell me the future souls of the earth

Lis Anna-Langston

Wild as the jungles they came from,
where boas flexed around their trunks —
like my other brushes with miracles,
the men who love you back, how they come
to you, gorgeous and invasive,

April 18, 2023 | Fiction

Day of The Slugs

Justine-Juliette

Jimmy’s thing was his violent ability in soccer. Bismarthalou’s was in his preposterous name and the mystifying way in which he spoke of his potentially fictitious motherland.

 

April 17, 2023 | Fiction

Ritalin for Debutantes

Brent L. Smith

“There’s no reason to spread melodramatic rumors about the delay of the album,” she says

April 13, 2023 | Fiction

Hormesis

Peter Lasch

When they first met dirty talk felt like solving timed coding challenges at a job interview.

April 12, 2023 | Fiction

Quiet, Silent, Beautiful

Autumn Christian

She was the sudden presence that filled the delivery room like a creation spirit pressing his thumb to make a wrinkle in space.

April 10, 2023 | Fiction

Fun Can Kill You

Ariel Courage

I fall asleep on the First Date. It happens when we're cresting the chain hill of a roller coaster called Sallie Mae.

April 6, 2023 | Fiction

The Elevator

Ivan Kenneally

When I was ten years old something happened, an event I never understood

April 5, 2023 | Fiction

How I Got my Hair Back

Colene Lee

I've finished packing and am leaving. Ten, nine, eight, seven . . . .

March 28, 2023 | Fiction

Black Girl Magic

Kyle Kirshbom

There’s something so sexy about a hot girl apologizing for my behavior.

March 27, 2023 | Fiction

Toothbrush Horror Story

Greta Rainbow

Toothpaste dripped and stained the rubber grip. The bristles were yellowed, fanned out and frayed, like a spiky cleaning tool that should go nowhere near the mouth. Some of the bristles were actually hairs.

March 24, 2023 | Fiction

The Secret

Mohammad Rafiq

What the Mother wanted to show us might be different from what we wanted to see.

March 23, 2023 | Fiction

2 Fictions

 Katie Gene Friedman

“My grandma drinks that,” the kid ahead of me at Duane Reade snarks at my six-pack of Ensure bottles.

March 21, 2023 | Fiction

Blisters

Molly Weisgrau

Blisters is a game where you sit on the floor on either side of a candle and hold little fingers like a pinky swear above the flame until someone lets go.
 

March 20, 2023 | Fiction

Hand on Thigh

Lexi Anderson

It’s me and Helena. Helena and me.

March 17, 2023 | Fiction

Night Without

Nathan Reinke

this one guy keeps trying to talk about the impoverished state of the arts which among other things is making me desperately want to do the drugs I brought

March 16, 2023 | Fiction

Two Stories

Myles Zavelo

Zack was total destruction, demonic possession.

March 15, 2023 | Fiction

Mother's Cheese

Maeve Barry

A diagram shows a mother with porn-star proportions holding her breast, pinching the nipple, milking herself into the cylinder. Squirt, Shake, Wait, the directions tell me.

March 14, 2023 | Fiction

Delivery

Nick Story

Her robe came open; it was like hugging an ice sculpture swan. I shivered.

March 13, 2023 | Fiction

Für Elske and the landlord, Mr Koen Leeuwens

Arturo Desimone

The attic room in the student town of Ordrecht went for 365, 52 euros monthly, not including the safety-deposit, called borg in Dutch.

“Lucky boy, just too late. Because we have crisis in Holland,

March 13, 2023 | Fiction

Playground

Andrew Hahn

In the mornings, the woman sees her husband off to work in her night dress, sometimes with curlers in her hair. After he leaves, she always lights a cigarette and stands with the glass-paned storm door cracked open. I can tell the inside of their house smells like knock-off Estée Lauder and menthol smoke.

March 8, 2023 | Fiction

Beefy Appetizer

Ila Kumar

My professor is French. You can tell by her voice, and because she just told us that she and her husband met through adultery, as if it was an app on your phone.

March 7, 2023 | Fiction

Emily

Cash Compson

Emily was mine first.

March 6, 2023 | Fiction

The After Party

Ruby Sutton

Sarah has just been promoted at the publishing house, and I realize she thinks she is doing her job at this party

March 6, 2023 | Fiction

Four Ways to Handle Adrian's Relapse

Kate Wisel

Smile in heavy make-up, feeling like a pill is stuck in your throat.

March 5, 2023 | Fiction

SOLO PLAYER LOB

Peppy Ooze

A snag with Monday is I have to neck all three of my Subtext in one go. Each under the tongue. The man who administers, Sven, can’t be arsed to say why but he’s a pure archcretin.

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