By Allison Grimaldi-Donahue

The Vomitorium

/ Matthew Hennigar / Fiction
Lo. The Israelites, recently fled from Pharaoh and his evil hordes, gather beneath Mount Sinai […]

REVIEW: Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others

/ Cassandra A. Baim / Reviews
Reviewed: Innocents and Others By: Dana Spiotta Published by: Scribner, 2016     Dana Spiotta’s […]

just like everybody else does

Shapebreaker

/ Bernard O'Rourke / Fiction
Freddy didn’t consider his ability to remould other people into whatever shape he desired to […]

Darling Marie

/ Rita Banerjee / Fiction
  Marie thought the object belonged to an assassin, some charming broad from the 1940s […]

Short Story CONTEST!!!

/ Allison Grimaldi-Donahue / Misc
Queen Mob’s Teahouse is looking for work for our first short story contest. The theme is […]

Riddle of the Sphinx

/ Virginia Konchan / Fiction
We met at a fundraiser, a death-rally by a local non-profit for a domestic violence […]

SOUVENIR DE VOYAGE

/ Kathleen Rooney / Fiction
Edgar Poe was fascinated by petrification, too. Perhaps that was the impetus of the master’s […]

Notes On The National Language

SPECIAL ISSUE OPEN CALL: QUEER TRANSLATIONS

/ Allison Grimaldi-Donahue / Misc
Queen Mob’s Teahouse is putting together a special issue on Queer Translations and we are […]

PERSPECTIVE I: MADAME RÉCAMIER DE DAVID

/ Kathleen Rooney / Fiction
The master used to paint every day, but of late he pains, and sits on […]

Flat Finish

/ Ash Krafton / Fiction
I remember when I was a kid and just learning how to drive and my […]

LE PAYSAGE FANTÔME

PORTRAIT DE E.L.T. MESENS

/ Kathleen Rooney / Fiction
It would be a cruel joke to show this image to Loulou their Pomeranian, so […]

Lesbian Pussy Tales

BACK-UP POST-HASTE

/ David Morgan O'Connor / Fiction
It was a few months after the funeral when Elena, my stepmother invited me to […]

Review: I’m very into you

/ Allison Grimaldi-Donahue / Reviews
Discussed: I'm very into you: Correspondence 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark Semiotext(e) 2015 […]

More Fulfilled

/ Grant Maierhofer / Fiction
He’d inherited it. As lives go, his would grumble. Slept-through years in high school lots […]

Nights of Mercy

/ Analeah Loschiavo / Fiction
Today is the last day here. I knew it when I woke up. I have waited […]

W’s Decorum

/ Martin Barkely / Fiction
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR TRAVIS COUNTY  AUSTIN, TEXAS ___________________________ CASE: 673421879 Plaintiff  Stickley, Hibble, […]

On Rot

/ Rose Barnsley / Fiction
The thing about lonely people is its everyone. We all get our joy from somewhere […]

SUBMIT A REVIEW

/ Ruben Quesada / Reviews
Review Send us your reviews of books, films, theater, the bodega downstairs from your apartment. […]

I Hate New Year’s, Signed Antonio Gramsci

/ Antonio Gramsic translation by Allison Grimaldi Donahue / Letters & Essays
One hundred years ago the great Italian socialist thinker and activist Antonio Gramsci published this […]

A House in Europe

/ João Cerqueira / Fiction
The journey took more than four hours. Crammed to the gunnels with more than a […]

2015 Fiction Highlights

/ Allison Grimaldi-Donahue / Fiction
Here are some highlights from QMT fiction in 2015.  Actually, I’ve only been fiction editor […]

Dear Neighbor