FICTION: Haunted Hearts

/ Saba Syed Razvi / Fiction
Jasmine and Lila were eight years old when their parents moved them from the busy […]

FICTION: When the Bats Come

/ Chris Vanjonack / Fiction
When the bats come out, or, rather, don’t come out, the sun is setting, it’s […]

FICTION: Before Four Stomachs

/ Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick / Fiction
With a mouthful of grass, the cow plucks up a patch of dirt that covers […]

FICTION: Dear Credit Card Thief

/ Ulrica Hume / Fiction
Dear Credit Card Thief, I think of you—hunched, green cast, a zombie of the ephemeral, […]

FICTION: Mask Fragments

/ Fin Sorrel / Fiction
1 In discovering a tree of all black teeth through a tunnel, I find my […]

REVIEW: Soul Data

/ Fe Orellana / Fiction
The Maze of Transparencies Karen An–hwei Lee Ellipsis Press: New York, 2019 Speculative fiction, in […]

FICTION: I Might Get a Monkey

/ Jo Varnish / Fiction
I thought I’d get a monkey soon after The Thing That Was Done To Me. […]

FICTION: The Future Is Magic

/ Jon Doyle / Fiction
The Idea It was one of the Russians who said it. Something like, although my […]

FICTION: Forgotten

/ Jody Gerbig / Fiction
Ginny, the home nurse, shows up for her third visit at seven a.m. wearing flowery […]

FICTION: Nesting

/ Ariel Kusby / Fiction
When I return to my empty room, I open the window and let the heat […]

FICTION: Something You Admired

/ RW Spryszak / Fiction
We didn’t say good-bye before you came to resemble a hundred other people I used […]

FICTION: Cannot Touch

/ Julia Gerhardt / Fiction
The sheets have to be bleached, that’s for certain. I watch him from the end […]

FICTION: So Many Delicacies

/ Kara Gall / Fiction
The first brain I ever saw was a deer brain encapsulated in a large Mason […]

FICTION: Rolling Along

/ Elliott Turner / Fiction
Yennifer finished her evening workout at the Boxing Gym near the main plaza in Edinburg, […]

FICTION: Match Girl

/ A.A. Balaskovits / Fiction
Her mother said, darling pie, your lips are made of sawdust, and on her tenth […]

FICTION: Emotional Labor Hotline

/ Ashley Burnett / Fiction
“You’ve reached the emotional labor hotline. Amelia speaking. May I get a name, please?” “John.” […]

FICTION: The Viewing

/ Terence Hannum / Fiction
In the gray light of the afternoon, the rain falls lightly through the towering pines […]

FICTION: Huff, Puff, Blow

/ Jess Richardson / Fiction
As far as temporary homelessness goes, it was a good temporary homelessness, a great temporary […]

FICTION: Insect Group 3-23

/ Rich Ives / Fiction
Not a Pocket or a Door, Not a Renegade Shore Freya’s Fritillary Butterfly Larrys above, […]

FICTION: A Saga of Blasphemy

/ Hareendran Kallinkeel / Fiction
A church bell tolls, a single strike, noise that pierces her ears Rosy’s eyes dart, […]

FICTION: The Masterpiece

/ Dennis Pahl / Fiction
I don’t know why I even bother to write stories. How many people will read […]

FICTION: In Situ

/ Lexi Pandell / Fiction
Kmart is burning on TV. So is the church and hospital. I pack my toothbrush, […]

FICTION: Piranha in the Fishbowl

/ N.K. Woods / Fiction
‘So, Amy, what have you achieved in the last twelve months?’ In the meeting room, […]

FICTION: Batons

/ Matt Fallaize / Fiction
And then Jocky says d’you think she’d have been worth it then? And I take […]