By Allison Grimaldi-Donahue

A near colorless thread

/ Amanda Boyle / Fiction
When Tanya was awake, she always had her laptop on, and she spent so many […]

Eat Me

/ Shana Graham / Fiction
At 4 a.m. in yet another hotel room, the last dregs of the party thrusting […]

Contest Winner: The Cow

/ Peter Thai / Fiction
The cow lies in a stall among other cows, feeding upon feed, being (from time […]

Contest: Scheherazade

/ devi yesodharan / Fiction
  People die out of turn in this part of town. The children go before […]

Contest: Dear Sister

/ Clio Velentza / Fiction
Dear Sister,   The flowers bloomed all by themselves, overnight. Nobody has planted anything in […]

Contest: Orion (c.1955)

/ Zachary Scott Hamilton / Fiction
Utensils, old demonstrational videos of underwater lounges and forks, and knives growing purple urchins, growing […]

Contest: Quagmire

/ Rick Vosper / Fiction
I am wallowing in the swamp again. Face mask, snorkel – naked. Sharp blades of […]

Contest: The Tower

Contest: The Day’s Foremost Hour

/ Drew Dickerson / Fiction
Sweaty fingers worked away at a wiry beard, the man’s nose defying powder and shining […]

Sleep Walking

/ Mark Plummer / Fiction
Colette is ready to leave when I go into the kitchen for breakfast. She’s in […]

Contest: Faker

/ Amanda Marbais / Fiction
Zoe stretched across the backseat, pressing her feet into my thigh, hair plastered to the […]

Contest: Wire Nuts

/ Nancy Devine / Fiction
You’d think the first annual Worldwide Women’s Wiring Festival would happen in Winnipeg, Wichita, Winnemucca, […]

Contest: Navaja

/ Francisco McCurry / Fiction
Manny slammed the front door. He ran down the rusted iron stairs with the fourteen […]

SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS

/ Allison Grimaldi-Donahue / Fiction, Misc
We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2016 Queen Mob’s Teahouse Short Fiction […]

Jippy Got a Divorce

/ Jefferson Navicky / Fiction
Jippy got a divorce. He didn’t want to ex his ex, but had to. She’d […]

WEDDING DAY

/ Michael Chin / Fiction
When Sam was eight years old, a white man photographed him sitting by the window […]

Cousin of Sleep

/ Tylah Gantt / Fiction, Misc
It’s startlingly easy to reduce four years of education to a floating blue dot in […]

Hanging Man, as Seen from the Water

/ Justin Daugherty / Fiction
Hanging Man, as Seen from the Water I went to the lake to hang myself […]

STARRY NIGHT

/ Kim Silveira Wolterbeek / Fiction
    Then I go out at night to paint the stars. —Vincent Van Gogh […]

The Giant

/ Tim Raymond / Fiction
A giant walks around in a forest. It’s nice and all, but for years he’s […]

Small Comfort

/ Madeline Gobbo / Fiction
My true love appeared as I drew back my right foot to crush his office […]

Faith

/ Sarah Françoise / Fiction
There were two churches around Stanley common: Saint Mary’s on the east side, MH Methodist […]

The Customer Negotiate

/ Amy Bergen / Fiction
The name of the company eSave. My apartment flooded last year. Mud curled up in […]

REVIEW: I HATE THE INTERNET

/ Cassandra A. Baim / Reviews
Reviewed: I Hate the Internet by Jarret Kobeck Published by: We Heard You Like Books, […]

Are You Still Here?

The Time of Nothing

Aching Afterthoughts

/ Johanna DeBiase / Fiction
The soft sun grazed the ocean’s surface with a languid haze and I breathed in […]

NATASHA

/ Yu Yan / Fiction
There seemed to be no surprise at the horizon. It was another warm, sunny and […]