FICTION: A Profile

/ Daniel David Gothard / Fiction
I’ve never been a good judge of character at first sight, and when Michael decided […]

FICTION: The Sisters

/ Amberly Baker / Fiction
If you saw them there, curled up on the front porch swing under the glow […]

FICTION: The Good Morrow

/ Ryan Napier / Fiction
My friends and I liked to speculate about M. We knew her from graduate school. […]

FICTION: The San Antonio Futurists

/ Drew Buxton / Fiction
It got set off when City Council blocked the high-speed rail to Austin again. The […]

FICTION: Tea with Moni

/ Nishi Pulugurtha / Fiction
Dusk settled in accompanied by a calmness, more of a stillness. The day had been […]

FICTION: Other Party

/ Valentina Calvache / Fiction
Life is dull. You are born, you plant a tree, you have a kid, you […]

FICTION: Stay With Me

/ Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick / Fiction
We are here, in this room, the room where we go in with the Occasional […]

FICTION: An Adverb Reacted Wearily

/ Matt Kendrick / Fiction
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” Stephen King  Joyfully, energetically, enigmatically, poetically. The […]

FICTION: A Husband by Midnight

/ Christina Rosso / Fiction
You’ve heard my story. My kind, beautiful mother died, leaving her faithful, doting husband—my father—with […]

FICTION: What I Am

/ Mileva Anastasiadou / Fiction
This piece is part of QMT’s Matchbox 20 fiction series and is based on the […]

FICTION: The Electric Meat Grinder

/ Anna Svoboda / Fiction
An inanimate object’s account of an actual event My dad was a Table Mount Meat […]

FICTION: The Surgery

/ Maya Jewell Zeller / Fiction
An Unfinished Office Girl/University Hero Interlude (in parts) Office Girl (woman? girl?—girl again? woman?) drags […]

FICTION: The Emerging Artist

/ Philippa Moore / Fiction
“The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.” – Marina Abramovic […]

FICTION: Bone Calculus

/ Rod Val Moore / Fiction
Chemistry of emptiness. Every cloud-free sky presents an irksome hollowness, an enormous gassiness just waiting […]

FICTION: Sharing

/ Daniel David Gothard / Fiction
My brother died yesterday. Marius was thirty-four years old. Our parents are both dead and […]

FICTION: The Dog

/ Monica Wang / Fiction
Image: Dog Lying in the Snow, Franz Marc, 1911 Neil was an hour late because […]

FICTION: The Ambivalent Bridge

/ Ryan Rivas / Fiction
The novelist stewed in the Florida heat. It was a typical Florida summer, mid-afternoon. Soon […]

FICTION: Heavy Med

/ Jason S. Dennis / Fiction
Day seven. Patchouli and body odor—it was hard to tell where one ended and the […]

FICTION: In Frame

/ Devan Del Conte / Fiction
Lula It starts with a single shoe on the side of the highway. Tall trees […]

FICTION: The Cement Mixer

/ Sam Price / Fiction
The neighborhood around my church was poor. Still, when one of our own died, we’d […]

FICTION: That Version of You

/ Christopher Gonzalez / Fiction
I’ve been trying to feel more comfortable in my skin. Let go, man. Don’t think […]

FICTION: Memorata

/ A. S. Arthur / Fiction
I met Grieves the year I left Malaysia, before the war. Rather, I was aware […]

FICTION: Before I Kiss You Again

/ Jose Oseguera / Fiction
In her mind, Artemia Enriqueta’s future house would have high ceilings and be made mostly […]

FICTION: Have a Cow

/ Fred Mugford / Fiction
The cow was on top of my bed, with my girlfriend. Nothing kinky. I grabbed […]

FICTION: Close Friends

/ Ewa Mazierska / Fiction
Adam and Michael met for the first time in the early nineties. Adam was working […]