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June 17, 2025 | Fiction

What Is the Moon Called?

Michael Robert Liska

The moon men decided to come to Earth because they didn’t like the way the Earth people were always staring at them. Whenever they looked up at that enormous blue orb through their telescope, the

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 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.

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

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 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 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 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.

April 14, 2025 | Fiction

The Decemberists

 Maxfield Francis Goldman

She buys us both mineral waters from the MoMA cafe.

April 11, 2025 | Fiction

Fidele’s Corner

James McGowan

So what if, slightly buzzed, she witnessed jubilant souls who succored maggots with their wounds, or improvised love songs to Señor Suboxone

April 10, 2025 | Fiction

Everything Passes

Pranavesh Subramanian

As the day proceeds, we end up chatting. I tell the man with the snowflake tattoo: I thought you were in a biker gang but you’re all just working on Excel. 

April 8, 2025 | Fiction

Like a Rotisserie Chicken from Costco

Jean Marie Hackett

Let’s be clear:

You destroy things.

April 4, 2025 | Fiction

A Letter I Hope You Don’t Write, Son

Garima Chhikara

Do you think I won’t understand because I never finished school?

 

April 3, 2025 | Fiction

Fantasy Football

Arcadia Molinas

Only the best of girls get to play fantasy football and today, that’s me.

April 2, 2025 | Fiction

Perceived

Andy Tran

But she didn’t delete the video. Instead, she posted it on TikTok.

March 31, 2025 | Fiction

Next Level Unlocked

Mia Risher

Clem wasn’t worried that Joshua would be a catfish.

March 26, 2025 | Fiction

Tonight

Waseem Mainuddin

Harry forgot the rest of last night’s monologue, and just saw the crowd laughing. Applause was okay if it was accompanied by laughter, he just didn’t want to ask for claps. But laughs? In this world, people need to laugh.

March 20, 2025 | Fiction

The Bright African Son

Ava Sophia Brown

I extended my time at the Hotel de Paris to fall into the bad habit of making love to the maid. And to recover and regain my strength, as my flu-ish bug was stubborn and I feared being on the road for too long with it.

March 19, 2025 | Fiction

Groan

Joseph Pfister

When they ask you how your massage went, the first thing out of your mouth is a confession.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks! 

Legs Get Led Astray

Chloe Caldwell

“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”

Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD