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January 23, 2025 | Fiction

Heaven Is A Table at 1 OAK

Lucie Turkel

with beer bongs and messy boys who didn’t know how to do anything but shove shoulders down for head

January 17, 2025 | Fiction

The Last American Woman

Elizabeth Ellen

Over the next few days, through a method of trial and error, I taught myself the basics of frontier survival.

January 17, 2025 | Fiction

The Last American Woman

Elizabeth Ellen

Over the next few days, through a method of trial and error, I taught myself the basics of frontier survival.

January 15, 2025 | Fiction

Spooky Action at a Distance

Alexander Hackett

 

You're glowing, she said. And why would I be glowing? It can't be the gutrot wine, or last week's fast food lunches. It can't be my Quasimodo limp, I smashed my toe on a fire hydrant trying to

January 15, 2025 | Fiction

Spooky Action at a Distance

Alexander Hackett

 

You're glowing, she said. And why would I be glowing? It can't be the gutrot wine, or last week's fast food lunches. It can't be my Quasimodo limp, I smashed my toe on a fire hydrant trying to

January 10, 2025 | Fiction

Breaststroke

Talia Vyadro

 

When she used to swim at night her bones cut through water like perforating paper. It was always the same ritual, pants off first with a slight shimmy, arms up high overhead to get rid of the

January 10, 2025 | Fiction

Breaststroke

Talia Vyadro

 

When she used to swim at night her bones cut through water like perforating paper. It was always the same ritual, pants off first with a slight shimmy, arms up high overhead to get rid of the

January 8, 2025 | Fiction

Backtrack and Prune

Josh Lovins

It is a horrible thing to lose a friend, they said, and their saying this made him angry. What did they understand? They didn't understand a single thing.

January 8, 2025 | Fiction

Backtrack and Prune

Josh Lovins

It is a horrible thing to lose a friend, they said, and their saying this made him angry. What did they understand? They didn't understand a single thing.

January 7, 2025 | Fiction

Passenger

selen ozturk

My dad’s passed, my dad says. He’s driving to cremate and bury him. He tears one minute further from me. Two. His phone clatters on the dashboard. Horns and curses. He says BEEP fuck, if I could BEEP

January 7, 2025 | Fiction

Passenger

selen ozturk

My dad’s passed, my dad says. He’s driving to cremate and bury him. He tears one minute further from me. Two. His phone clatters on the dashboard. Horns and curses. He says BEEP fuck, if I could BEEP

December 30, 2024 | Fiction

I Wanted Violence

Jean Marie

The truth is i wanted to owe. 

but i couldn't say that, that kind of available, that i wanted a knife at my throat demanding all my money, in the bag now;

December 30, 2024 | Fiction

I Wanted Violence

Jean Marie

The truth is i wanted to owe. 

but i couldn't say that, that kind of available, that i wanted a knife at my throat demanding all my money, in the bag now;

December 27, 2024 | Fiction

Ocean View

Steven Volynets

   A woman's shriek broke from the dining area, something in English trailing off into Italian.
            Keekah laughed heartily, "the mafia wife is calling."

December 27, 2024 | Fiction

Ocean View

Steven Volynets

   A woman's shriek broke from the dining area, something in English trailing off into Italian.
            Keekah laughed heartily, "the mafia wife is calling."

December 26, 2024 | Fiction

Weird Fishes

Andrew P. Heath

I was informed that it was going to be some kind of horror and pornography mash-up. Lisa promised a murder.

December 26, 2024 | Fiction

Weird Fishes

Andrew P. Heath

I was informed that it was going to be some kind of horror and pornography mash-up. Lisa promised a murder.

December 24, 2024 | Fiction

excerpt from Where When It Rains

John F Duffy 

I held out my fist, “Midwest love.”

She touched her knuckles to mine.

December 24, 2024 | Fiction

excerpt from Where When It Rains

John F Duffy 

I held out my fist, “Midwest love.”

She touched her knuckles to mine.

December 20, 2024 | Fiction

FLUSH

Thora Dahlke

Like everyone born after 1991, I hate my job.

December 20, 2024 | Fiction

FLUSH

Thora Dahlke

Like everyone born after 1991, I hate my job.

December 18, 2024 | Fiction

DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY

Greg Gerke

Can I sue ABC and Universal Televison for making the Hulk’s transformation overly sexual? I ask a lawyer on Main Street, but he requests that I leave, he has to get a lice treatment.

December 18, 2024 | Fiction

DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY

Greg Gerke

Can I sue ABC and Universal Televison for making the Hulk’s transformation overly sexual? I ask a lawyer on Main Street, but he requests that I leave, he has to get a lice treatment.

December 13, 2024 | Fiction

WHAT'S SO HORRIBLE

Amy DeBellis

“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”

“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”

December 13, 2024 | Fiction

WHAT'S SO HORRIBLE

Amy DeBellis

“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”

“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”

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Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub

Who Killed Mabel Frost?

Miss Unity

I thought I was unhappy as a man. Turns out I was just unhappy…