Showing results for December, 2021
Rumination After Informing the Vet Staff Their Panera Bread Order Was Sitting on the Counter
Kelsey Zimmerman
So Mom didn’t come with us to the grocery
store, but she insisted when a box of Grape Nuts
or Popsicles tasted off it was because we hadn’t
selected the box behind the first, that hiding
in the
The Abstinence Card
Erik Martinez
It sat in my wallet while I made out with a guy during the “Josie and the Pussycats” movie
By Hook Or By Crook
Miss Unity
I never mixed meth with hooking. Not once. I didn’t want to ruin it! (Meth, I mean.)
The Day The Billionaire Exploded
Joe Marczynski
When the first billionaire exploded I was at the drive-thru with my dad.
It Almost Kills Me
Preeti Vangani
...not enough steroids, / the wrong steroids...
(Not) A Story About New York
Kelsey Swintek
It’s August in Manhattan when we both decide to leave. You accept a job in LA and my boyfriend packs my life in a U-Haul and drives it to our new apartment together in Pittsburgh.
When I toss
Frequent Utilizer Protocol
Eric Tran
...How to say / hello without breaking / stride...
F-Words
Mark Foss
The funeral home gave me a special calendar to keep track of the Yahrzeit until 2034, but after that I will be on my own.
Act of God
Suzanne Manizza Roszak
It is a miraculous thing, this audible sun.
Owed to 3C Hair
Mya Matteo Alexice
o lion mane and petalled armore, / you sweet corona of twist & curl...
A Medication Guide
Vanessa Garza
Something about a synaptic neurotransmitter. You won’t really understand.
Daughter of Ants
Natasha Ayaz
His voice, crisp like apple vodka, poured into the September air.
Because Mid-Meal, My Mother Says “Now Don’t Write About This”; Or, The Tyranny of We
Sandra Beasley
But to write We thought is a fiction.
We always felt that…the moment you write this phrase, you have lied.