December 22, 2015 | Nonfiction
Directive Amidst Digression
Oliver Lee Bateman
Like many other men in their seventies, my father has prepared a set of final directives.
December 20, 2015 |
Lazy Wolf: The Series (pt. 4)
Alex Jiang
[Previously on... Part 3 :: Part 2 :: Part 1]
Last time, Lt. Pup got Mental-bombed by a Cat spy and fights for his life in his mind against the evil feline. Will he get his mind taken over
Turn in the Direction of the Skid
Robert P. Kaye
Dan got an associate’s degree in business, works for a bank and still deals a little dope on the side. Moss sells high-end real estate in the city. Spence moved to Brooklyn for the music and he’s got an EP on Bandcamp that’s pretty damned good. I’m the only one who stayed in town.
Iggy Pops Got A Rocket In His Pocket
Jacob S. Knabb
Iggy Pop has a rocket in his pocket and he shore is gone pull it out.
We Are the Hallwalkers
Chelsea Laine Wells
We are the high school hallwalkers, the frequent fliers, the do not admit until disciplinary list, the back of the class, the front of the class where I can keep my eye on you, the laughing and fighting and nodding off
Four Things
Kenta Maniwa
i took a girl to a donut shop after an art show
i bought her a donut and milk and then we sat in my car
we talked and ate donuts
she said she had thanksgiving dinner with a guy who shot two cops
The Phoenix Triptych
Monet Patrice Thomas
You are twenty-six, so you know everything about anything.
Postcards
Joe Plicka
Pizza Hut pays for my gas, and of course I eat for free whenever I get to one of our restaurants. They allow me fifty a day for lodging, but since we’re saving for that patio set I usually just sleep in the car if the room is over forty. In Iowa City it was hard to find something that cheap but Missouri is like motel central!
2 Fictions
Hanna Mangold
six years later and I only know how to be needed
Metamorphosis
Jennifer Stern
I am thinking about the lungfish’s two worlds—the wet one and the dry one—and about metamorphosis. And I am thinking about strokes—about whether it’s the moment that the arm becomes weak that a person’s life goes into pause. Or the moment that the blind spot sets in.
But You Dont Know Any Bon Jovi
Laura Minor
we’re all alone in our corner of need.
Rome/Barcelona/Chicago, Summer, 2015
sara mcgrath
It’s customary in Italy to have food during happy hour. I ordered white wine but was nervous to ask for a plate. When I don’t understand what someone is saying I will just say no.
Theory of Natural Selection
Richard Johnston
Latvia’s Baltic coastline is almost completely undeveloped except for a few fishing villages and some dilapidated concrete resorts for Communist Party officials. A forest of black pines begins right at the edge of sixty-foot dunes.
An uncareful mathematician would always mistake this for love
Julia Dixon Evans
Because Math!
Boiled Tomato
Kaveh Akbar
In a dream you were chewing your fingers down to the knuckle. My fingers, missing nothing, seem a kind of bloom, fluid as they slide through my mouth and the mouths of others. Sometimes I
Forensics and You
Jennifer Pruiett-Selby
The program started with Take Your Kid to Work Day. We were pioneers in the field of crime scene investigation. Everything went smoothly as long as the kids didn’t touch anything. They’ve got eyes