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January 16, 2024 | Fiction

Dopamine Somersault Blackout

Ray Downs

That comment got 55 upvotes. I downvoted it. I don’t have friends anymore

January 8, 2024 | Fiction

Baby Birds

Miriam Gordis

Getting chemical poisoning together seemed romantic, the closest you could come to being entombed, Pompeii-style, in each other’s arms.

January 5, 2024 | Fiction

Take Me to Your Gravel World

Frances Schnepff

all these changes in my life were made without my consent

December 27, 2023 | Fiction

G.O.A.T.

Elizabeth Ellen

I was in an S &M relationship with myself.

December 26, 2023 | Fiction

You Belong with Me

Nicola Maye Goldberg

This place looks haunted as shit.

December 25, 2023 | Fiction

Three Days 'til Christmas in the Kmart off Hoffmeyer Road

md wheatley

You touch everything you see. You want everything you touch.

December 22, 2023 | Fiction

Safe Word

Garth Miró

It was finally my turn around Christmas time. Sure, I was just one more cock in an endless line, sneaking up to that apartment, but I was not above free pussy.

December 21, 2023 | Fiction

What If We Did Something Amazing

Robert McCready

Uncle Dale says, “We’re lucky that none of us can fly.”

December 18, 2023 | Fiction

Patient One

Meg Tuite

The human race was absurd and overwrought. Men were feeble-minded narcissists and women, acoustic blowhorns with an endless flurry of wind.

December 15, 2023 | Fiction

The Valley (a void)

Vanessa Roveto

Against cloudless skies, any of the available disorders are at your disposal.

December 13, 2023 | Fiction

Spree Skazz

Peppy Ooze

I said to Martin Amis once, told him Augie March is a jazz beat novel and he said his son reckons that 

December 11, 2023 | Fiction

Offer of Employment

Steve Gergley

Now she wore a menacing permutation of the cheerful, customer-service smile he had seen her display earlier.

December 6, 2023 | Fiction

Stations of the Cross

Philip Traylen

and what’s the point, really, of casual sex, except to melt the ghosts off someone’s face

December 1, 2023 | Fiction

Dead Man Brilliant

K Hank Jost

There’s not a thought in the throb. Not an inkling in the coppery clatter of his mouth. There’s only the turn. Only the fist: fast, everything behind it.

November 30, 2023 | Fiction

Territory

Franz Jørgen Neumann

She thought he was going to kill her this time, but that was one of the unspoken rules: no killing each other. Also: no kitchen knives, no purpose-built weapons of any kind. No screaming, either. Neighbors, the police—they wouldn’t understand.

November 29, 2023 | Fiction

A Nice Memory

Jane Liddle

My mother’s screams woke me up.

November 27, 2023 | Fiction

The Biggest Ball In the World

Robert McCready

In late July, in the mid-nineties, I begged Mom and her fiancé Paul to buy me a big ball at Roses department store.

November 24, 2023 | Fiction

Excerpt from NIAGARA FALLS, NY

Ric Royer

I'm sure a terrible something has occurred at every inhabitable coordinate. 

November 22, 2023 | Fiction

luv letters

tori canning

in the middle of the night i will sit on your leg on a swivel chair, watching your favorite music videos, galvanizing our similarities. we transport ourselves into the future.

November 20, 2023 | Fiction

Hayride

Maeve Barry

The first time I met Nate he asked if I masturbate.

November 15, 2023 | Fiction

The Dead Things Club

Michael Robert Liska

I borrowed my mother’s car and went to the mall a lot and stole things, which I then threw into the dumpster outside. One time I drank an entire bottle of Nyquil and almost died, but nobody noticed.

November 10, 2023 | Fiction

BEHEAD ME TWICE

Z.H. Gill

For two years I worked in the office of a famous Christian singer as he approached the end of his life.

November 8, 2023 | Fiction

Screed Master

Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

I didn’t like him at first. Seemed like a motherfucker. Girls-dripping-off-him-type, but rough. Scared me & pissed me off, how he looked me up & down. That force, that asshole face, eyes like daggers daring me to see what would happen if I didn’t.

November 6, 2023 | Fiction

Went to Bookshop

Peppy Ooze

Then I read Journey’s first page.

October 27, 2023 | Fiction

The Equinox

Läilä Örken

Storm clouds dangle from the sky, the colour and consistency of wet cotton. Way back in the nineties, when long plastic sausages of cotton discs were a luxury that only the cornucopian West could

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?

Who Killed Mabel Frost?

Miss Unity

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

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!