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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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 3, 2025 | Fiction

Fantasy Football

Arcadia Molinas

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

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

Her Lesser Work

Elizabeth Ellen

"[Her Lesser Work] is a collection of mordant and formally inventive stories circling themes of, let’s say, desire and escape within repressive structures."

      -Walker Caplan, Literary Hub