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Spider Bits
Kennedy Coyne
My mother wouldn’t let her get a pet tarantula, despite many tantrums, so instead she played with whatever bugs crawled around the house.
The Mussels
Jo Varnish
Clark says that trying to save the mussels is dumb because there are so many of them. That’s his logic. The town says they have to repair the dam in the lake, or the houses down the way will flood
Acknowledgment
Tara Van De Mark
Dan disowned my sister and me via email a year ago
The Nonsense Brothers Detective Agency
Steve Chang
Mondays, Mondays, Mondays!
Ha-ha! I love my wife Gwen! She's the best. Today, she sprinkled paprika in my oatmeal—to prank me I bet—and I didn’t figure it out until halfway through the bowl.
Dream Seafood Restaurant
Matt E. Lewis
The seafood restaurant in my dreams closed down last night.
Dry-Humping Andrea Schwartz
Eric Rosenblum
Margot and I had humped once, too, when I stopped by and Andrea wasn’t home.
Red Tractor
Caleb Tankersley
I saw the whole thing from my sunroom, how the front wheel pinned his legs, shredded his muddy jeans then tore through the rest of him.
Mothers
Zoë Ballering
When I heard the name, I was sure it held a deeper meaning. No, she said, laughing... She explained that the knot combines the features of a reef knot, a thief knot, and a granny knot. It’s a portmanteau, not a metaphor. Grief has no meaning, she said.
A Voicemail From Dad
Michael Riess
"Hey Em, it's Dad. Sorry it's so early ..."
A Problem Set
Lauren D. Woods
Why did Train A leave while Train B was still getting ready?
The idiopathic bloodlust of inanimate objects
JR Walsh
There wasn’t a bike rack because car people owned this town. You locked up to telephone poles covered in missing cats and hoped your chain stayed chained. In the shadows of rusting delivery trucks the
Today on Dagobah, Ep. 6: "Routine"
Josh Sippie
As Yoda sat on a tree stump, perfectly force-carved to complement his bony exterior and knobby joints, he realized that it had been five days in a row now that he had sat on this tree stump.
THE BACKSTORY IS [NOT] THE STORY
Ellen Rhudy
This is a story you’ve heard before. There’s a girl, let’s call her a young woman, with [blond / brown] hair and [blue / brown] eyes. Maybe you say these details are unimportant, but you know how they
Your Ghosting Year
Billy Hallal
January
Your friends want to go out for New Year’s. You do not.
They prod and cajole you: come on, it’ll be fuuuuuuun.
It’s not that you don’t like going out. You will more than happily join
In Ram Corpse
Christopher Notarnicola
"He slept among a pile of used truck tires ..."
Two Shorts
Matthew Minicucci
For as long as Mark could remember, he had wanted to save someone from a wolf. He had wanted it to happen in a specific way. Peculiar even.
Thunderstorm Facts
Chris Vanjonack
Thunderstorms form in dense, towering vertical clouds. The necessary factors for a storm to develop are moisture, rising unstable air, and a lifting mechanism. A single bolt of lightning is five times
Bloom
Rebecca L. Jensen
When we worked together at his father’s diner, Tom drove an old minivan; green body with red doors. He would crank the window down and idle outside my front door. He wore a blue bandana rolled up and
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
Brandon Sanchez
I’m standing on top of Drew Barrymore’s star and the song’s issuing from a hot-purple Sony boom box someone set up a few feet away.
Recent Books
PERSON/A
Elizabeth Ellen
"If Elizabeth Ellen exists, I would tell her it was like she channeled the anthemic scorn of Alanis Morrisette’s “You Outta Know” through Anais Nin, in her own inimitable way. And if Elizabeth Ellen doesn’t exist, at least she can invent herself.
currently ON SALE for $11!
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
currently ON SALE for $9!