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February 13, 2025 | Fiction

The Story of White Water: A White Guy with a Sweat Lodge

Natalie Storey

We knew, for example, that according to 23 and Me, White Water didn’t have even a trace of indigenous blood, not even Cherokee, not even if you went back four generations.

February 12, 2025 | Fiction

Lester

Mr. Omar King

Wishfully thinking. Not really living up to those thoughts. I know it ain’t gonna happen and I know when this is over, I will go home, come back to my loneliness like clockwork.

February 12, 2025 | Fiction

Lester

Mr. Omar King

Wishfully thinking. Not really living up to those thoughts. I know it ain’t gonna happen and I know when this is over, I will go home, come back to my loneliness like clockwork.

February 11, 2025 | Fiction

Karen

Lorraine Casazza

Karen is tired.

February 11, 2025 | Fiction

Karen

Lorraine Casazza

Karen is tired.

January 30, 2025 | Fiction

Protandry

George Salis

Maybe, just maybe, it’s like that theory of the universe, a big bang followed by expansion until collapse, a big crunch, then a big bang again, ad infinitum, so that my curling, turtling pizzle will pop out again, pop in, pop out, poppet, an endless eon’s worth of self-fucking of a higher kind, a higher cruel.

January 30, 2025 | Fiction

Protandry

George Salis

Maybe, just maybe, it’s like that theory of the universe, a big bang followed by expansion until collapse, a big crunch, then a big bang again, ad infinitum, so that my curling, turtling pizzle will pop out again, pop in, pop out, poppet, an endless eon’s worth of self-fucking of a higher kind, a higher cruel.

January 24, 2025 | Fiction

Odd Light

Brad Kelly

He’d been by himself now for months except for game night with his colleagues and so he multiplied 13 by 47 in his head and divided it down until it was a trace behind the decimal point and then he asked her if she would like to meet him for a coffee downtown.

January 24, 2025 | Fiction

Odd Light

Brad Kelly

He’d been by himself now for months except for game night with his colleagues and so he multiplied 13 by 47 in his head and divided it down until it was a trace behind the decimal point and then he asked her if she would like to meet him for a coffee downtown.

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 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."

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