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June 16, 2025 | Fiction

McDonald’s

Nick Dove

Take another fry to further the feeling.

June 16, 2025 | Fiction

McDonald’s

Nick Dove

Take another fry to further the feeling.

June 13, 2025 | Fiction

Bad Dog

Adeline Swartzendruber

If I was a dog, I wouldn't be responsible for my own life.

June 13, 2025 | Fiction

Bad Dog

Adeline Swartzendruber

If I was a dog, I wouldn't be responsible for my own life.

June 10, 2025 | Fiction

Privacy Fence

Austin Blaze

It’s got good bones, everyone kept telling us. Who knows.

June 10, 2025 | Fiction

Privacy Fence

Austin Blaze

It’s got good bones, everyone kept telling us. Who knows.

June 9, 2025 | Fiction

Fablegun Construction

Drew Mosman

I see them right there plain as day, two-dimensional prints, sacred geometry, my life is full of meaning.

June 9, 2025 | Fiction

Fablegun Construction

Drew Mosman

I see them right there plain as day, two-dimensional prints, sacred geometry, my life is full of meaning.

May 19, 2025 | Fiction

Snowflakes

Amy DeBellis

I wake up the next morning with the sensation that my lips weigh ten pounds and are about to drop off my face. I’m too scared to look in the mirror,

May 19, 2025 | Fiction

Snowflakes

Amy DeBellis

I wake up the next morning with the sensation that my lips weigh ten pounds and are about to drop off my face. I’m too scared to look in the mirror,

May 15, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpts from STEALING MARQUEE MOON

Christopher Kennedy

In those days, it was popular to ask, What would Jesus do? I crucified myself for days.

May 15, 2025 | Fiction

She Wants Her MTV

Mallory Smart

They said it was a record-breaking storm. I wasn’t paying attention. I was trying to find a clean bowl and wondering if the radiator was supposed to make that noise. I didn’t think anyone would be out

May 15, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpts from STEALING MARQUEE MOON

Christopher Kennedy

In those days, it was popular to ask, What would Jesus do? I crucified myself for days.

May 15, 2025 | Fiction

She Wants Her MTV

Mallory Smart

They said it was a record-breaking storm. I wasn’t paying attention. I was trying to find a clean bowl and wondering if the radiator was supposed to make that noise. I didn’t think anyone would be out

May 5, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpt from 'Wedding Crasher, Marin County'

Wilson Koewing

Somebody is going to roofie them, I said. Dave laughed uncertainly. 

May 5, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpt from 'Wedding Crasher, Marin County'

Wilson Koewing

Somebody is going to roofie them, I said. Dave laughed uncertainly. 

April 30, 2025 | Fiction

Russian Class

Angélica Pina Lèbre

I look at the curtain. I haven’t touched the red box since my new friend from Russian class opened it. It feels like a different object now that she’s touched it.

April 30, 2025 | Fiction

Russian Class

Angélica Pina Lèbre

I look at the curtain. I haven’t touched the red box since my new friend from Russian class opened it. It feels like a different object now that she’s touched it.

April 26, 2025 | Fiction

The Blade

Derek Andersen

“Are you being held against your will?”

“I think so? There’s kind of an implication.”

“An implication?”

April 26, 2025 | Fiction

The Blade

Derek Andersen

“Are you being held against your will?”

“I think so? There’s kind of an implication.”

“An implication?”

April 25, 2025 | Fiction

Love Spells

Ginger Jones

When you rearrange my insides you leave me for dead.

April 25, 2025 | Fiction

Love Spells

Ginger Jones

When you rearrange my insides you leave me for dead.

April 21, 2025 | Fiction

How to Be Loved

Yasmin Lagarde

When his heart is an ashtray—cigarette butts put out on a surface that will not flinch

April 21, 2025 | Fiction

How to Be Loved

Yasmin Lagarde

When his heart is an ashtray—cigarette butts put out on a surface that will not flinch

April 18, 2025 | Fiction

Make Me a Steak?

 Colleen Grablick

When I finally swallow, it feels like an admission of failure.

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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."

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