By Allison Grimaldi-Donahue

SPECTRAL

/ Michael Holladay / Fiction
I don’t know how the past can be in the present, and I don’t know […]

Reads of the Year

/ Laura Waddell / Fiction
Calorie content of your pizza slice by slice, as I read it aloud to you. […]

The Graft

/ Sara Kachelman / Fiction
Listen: I kissed you with a dead man’s mouth sewn into my mouth. I had […]

The Ends of a Face

/ Zoe Gold / Fiction
Whenever I catch myself in the bathroom mirror my self has an air about it […]

The Walls

/ Brandon Freels / Fiction
The nurse told me to take a seat. There was only a rocking chair in […]

Celia, Sex, and the Laundromat

/ Eliza Mimski / Fiction
Dirty socks. There was something erotic about the way the cotton picked up the smell. […]

Darlings

/ Kaj Tanaka / Fiction
(Part I) We have been instructed to kill our darlings when we write, as if […]

The video.

/ Emer Lyons / Fiction
She had the board game Dream Phone and a brother who slept in her bed. […]

Kinship

/ Mike Dressel / Fiction
Cleaning out my closet the other day I came across the gingham shirt, the one […]

Her Effigy

/ Derick Dupre / Fiction
I walked into the kitchen and I thought I saw a glittering. I crouched down […]

My Fetishist

/ Maxine Stoker / Fiction
It was one of the things I most liked about you at first—how easy it […]

The Last Ever Party in the Drowning Parishes

/ Travis Mushett / Fiction
  This was the last time the balconies and the ironwork galleries of the Vieux […]

Sukiyaki

/ Michael Cuglietta / Fiction
I crack open a can of Sapporo, take it out to the balcony, lean over […]

No Dominion

/ Leon Craig / Fiction
Darkness and silence and cold. Startled, then languorous again. Cold blackness covered me. I blinked […]

First Carvel in Beijing

/ May-lee Chai / Fiction
“It’s a little hole in the wall,” Luce says, humble-bragging, “but they make the best […]

The Town of Slumber

/ Danielle Alexander / Fiction
We have heard of binges: sleep-eating, sleep-driving, the result of grandiose moods. Well, all these […]

Soaking

/ Aram Mrjoian / Fiction
Once the first snowfall of winter stuck, my grandfather took to sleeping in the bathtub […]

Dissimulation

Paradise City

/ Asia El Rayan & Rami el Harayri / Fiction
  I wish I’d never been born. No, that’s not quite true. I wish he’d […]

Misophonia

/ Francesca Recchia / Fiction
I always thought of myself as a squeamish, high maintenance bitch. There are things I […]

Fiction Review: Marriage of a Thousand Lies

/ Cassandra A. Baim / Reviews
Reviewed: Marriage of a Thousand Lies by: SJ Sindu Published by: Soho Press   Marriage […]

Ed’s Ashes

/ Saxon Baird / Fiction
  Where else would my feet take me? Down through the twenty-two city blocks and […]

Songs My Mother Taught Me

/ rob mclennan / Fiction
Songs my mother taught me, The failure of order is the work / disorder is […]

Selected Works

/ Theodore Sovinski / Fiction
  Theodore Sovinski is from Lafayette, Indiana, and is a student at Purdue University studying […]

Review: Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle

/ Gareth Watkins / Reviews
Reviewed: Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle Published by: Zero Books, 2017   I don’t […]

Late Summer, Yellow Jade

/ Lindsey Danis / Fiction
The first time Sal hands me the slim joint, I take it and breathe in […]