October 26, 2021 | Nonfiction
Thread
Wendy Elizabeth Wallace
This sense judders through you when you collide with the snowplow truck.
October 25, 2021 | Nonfiction
Rewatching The Office To Keep My Dead Ex-Boyfriend Alive
Shannon J. Curtin
The last time I dream of him, my dead ex-boyfriend asks me to stop bringing him back.
Usually, when I dreamt him alive, he didn’t speak. I’d sit next to him while he sorted mail. I’d watch him turn
October 25, 2021 | Fiction
The Mermaid
Libby Copa
The water witch said that if I cut my hair and killed the prince and his new bride she would turn my legs back into fins and I could go home. I didn’t have to think about it very hard.
October 24, 2021 | Rejected Modern Love Essay
Choosing a Wedding Gift for the Only Person You Ever Loved
Dillon Fernando
When I mention this flash of sexual fluidity to people, it bothers them.
October 21, 2021 | Nonfiction
Midsummer in the Spirit Realm
Dave Fromm
Felt, for a minute, like some façade had slipped, like a glitch in the matrix. Is this in fact the car we came in? Are we who we think we are?
October 20, 2021 | Fiction
It's Later Than You Think
Adam McOmber
When I was dead, I returned to my father’s house, an old farmstead in Northwestern Ohio, and I stood alone in the gravel drive, satisfied to see that the house was just as I remembered it—small and gray, rising on a plot of land west of a moonlit apple orchard.
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Garielle Lutz is the author of The Complete Gary Lutz, among other books.
