July 17, 2019 | Fiction
The Tire Swing Incident
Matthew Stephen Sirois
I read the article and passed her the phone.
July 17, 2019 | Fiction
Cage Girls
Cheyenne Autry
On the drive home, I waited in the dark of the third-row seat for Z to act, reach for my hand or kiss my cheek. But he wouldn’t do anything until college, until I cornered him in the bathroom at a Halloween party and forced the space between us to shrink.
July 16, 2019 | Jukebox Happy Hour
The Clean
Amy Stuber
Anthology
The Clean
Released 1/21/2003
MERGE
134:52
It’s from a distance that I see them, and they look exactly like what they are:... more
July 16, 2019 | Nonfiction
Strange Birds
Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri
Even when I had my brief zoology phase, in elementary school, I always preferred mammals.
July 15, 2019 | Fiction
The Death of the First Cyborg
Tyler McAndrew
Between beeps and coughs, he begged to be unplugged, begged for them to let his fluid tanks run dry.
July 14, 2019 | Sunday Comics
Making Weight (pt. 2)
Denny Connolly
Previously on...
Part 1 || Prologue
July 13, 2019 | My First...
My First Car: '97 Chevrolet Blazer
Parker Young
The dog ran alongside me for about twenty yards, then I hit it. Or maybe it hit me. I still don’t know. I felt sick.
July 9, 2019 | Fiction
River Path
Amelia Gray
“This one’s kind of a dud,” he said, turning the page. “It’s fine, but I’m not sure where it goes.”
“That’s like me on this path,” she said.
“It’s really not.”
July 8, 2019 | Dispatches from the Treehouse
Dispatches from the Treehouse: Pride Nights
Joseph Horton
In a long baseball season, there’s always the question of whether any one game matters
July 7, 2019 | Whiskey for my Men, Beer for my Hoopleheads
Whiskey for my Men, Beer for my Hoopleheads: pt. 4
Kevin Mahler
Read Kevin Mahler's Introduction to his ongoing 5-part "Portrait Series Paralleling Characters in HBO’s... more
July 6, 2019 | My First...
My First VHS: Rain Man
James Tate Hill
Tom Cruise is one of life’s winners. He felt the need, the need for speed, and singlehandedly saved America from those Soviet planes, or something—honestly you never understood what was going on in the second half of Top Gun. In A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise he couldn’t handle the truth, but Jack Nicholson was quite wrong.
July 5, 2019 | The Bottom of the Order
The Bottom of the Order: Dooley Womack
Andrew Forbes
Horace Guy Womack was in the employ of four different Major League teams across five seasons, a serviceable... more
July 4, 2019 | Poetry
Hansen, James Lee. Young Lincoln. 1941.
Nathan Thomas
Winner of the 2019 Hot Lincoln Statue Poetry Contest
July 3, 2019 | Nonfiction
A Snake in the Basement
Lindsay Fowler
I will take an infestation, but only if it won’t spread.
July 2, 2019 | Jukebox Happy Hour
Decomposer
Corey Miller
Kathy doesn’t know the band but she wants to know me more.
June 30, 2019 | Comics
Killer Bees
K. A. Polzin
Like many youngsters of the era, this author lived in fear that these bees would descend upon his town by the thousands and sting everyone to death.
June 29, 2019 | My First...
My First CD: This Is How We Do It by Montell Jordan
Cydney Russell
I wandered around Sam Goody, more likely keeping track of my ABCs than taking inventory of the... more
June 28, 2019 | Fiction
You Tomorrow if You Want — The first ever short story written by Dixie Lohan, Lindsay Lohan’s cousin
Sofie Harsha
You look like a zombie who’s just seen a ghost, the mirror mouthed back.
June 27, 2019 | Poetry
for mother #4, who dug me from an ocean floor with bare hands
dezireé a. brown
to Mrs. Burrell
When Ms. Griffin was fired, my mother said
it was because she... more
June 25, 2019 | Poetry
Glass City Aubade
Gavin Yuan Gao
Nights shipwrecked / in nameless wanting
The city a floating glass
garden / to be lost in
Banished from the blinked-out... more
