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Jared Machetes the Porch
Austin Hayden
Jared punches like dang. Gouges, arm-bars. Breaks windows at theme parties.
Descent Against Carbon Dark
Jason Namey
For the past month Wrat, a man removed from the dogtooth of language, had been hearing a scratching, needling noise clip the outmost walls.
Dead Squirrel
Ben L. Ziegler
On the job site one morning they found a dead squirrel. There was no indication of what had killed it.
Eight Scenes from the Life of a Professional Raven
Tom McAllister
When my team scores a touchdown, I have a few seconds in the spotlight to do my dance, to captivate the crowd. I pretend in front of my flock that I don’t enjoy it but I do. I am more vain than I let on
Formerly Dante's
Kate Jayroe
Mama Vincenzo’s Ristorante Italiano is located in hell
Hugs, Handshakes, Goodbyes
Ashton Politanoff
Bill and Mary were leaving because Mary felt old, when a woman’s hand fell on his shoulder.
Solicitations
Benjamin Woodard
Two weeks after the scientist’s freak exposure, a man in black arrived at his front step. It was the weekend, and the man in black brought with him a gift: a jumble of neon material he removed from
Dunn and Hooper Standing in Dunn’s Yard
Brandon Barrett
The cousin had called my thesis advisor and said something like, “Hey, film professor cousin, can you do this film for us?” and my thesis advisor was like, “Hey, no. But I know a guy who is still unemployed four months after graduation and is about to get evicted.”
Sal and Dean Are Dicks
Yasmina Din Madden
It’s clear that most of these students hate Sal, Dean, and Kerouac.
Early October
Haley Morton
There is an eerie glow to the hollowness of bark that has been stripped of its leaves and fruit
All Of These Scenes Are Harshly Lit
Michael Schuck
When was the last time she ran? At all? As a real kid in bare feet in grass at her grandparents’ house.
The Worlds I Destroy
Taylor Bostick
At least I was alone, I tell myself. There’s no one to miss the worlds I destroy but me.
Chicharones
Herve Comeau
She has a pliant diction, and always after speaking to her mother her accent takes on the squished together sing-song of Spanish. When I ask her who it was on the phone she says, “My mother,”
People Resent You For It
Ardith Bravenec
Look, you smile too much or too little, both at the wrong times, and people don’t like you.
Socrates and The Common Cuckoo
Roz Ray
You know you’re in the shit when you’re looking to fortune cookies for encouragement
How To Fall In Love
Emily Lackey
Sign up for Match.com. You’ve heard it works. You’ve heard for one out of every three marriages, the couple meets online.
On Not Going for a Beer
Hannah Dow
And she doesn’t know a word of German, except “bier.”
Three Shorts
Rebekah Bergman
I saw myself on the Jumbotron. Locked eyes on my eyes looking elsewhere.
Catch Up Over Drinks or Coffee
Lisa Locascio
It will be great to hear how you have been! Hope we can get to everything in the seven seconds I have allotted our interaction.
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks!
Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)
Elizabeth Ellen
"Is this the actual diary you wrote at the time? The diary reads a lot like a novel, with its motifs of the murderess, the acupuncturist, etc." -Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted and The Complete Gary Lutz