FICTION: Brexit and Soda Farls

/ Neil Burns / Fiction
On a barstool, in a small Dublin boozer, studying himself in the mirror, forty-year-old Northerner, […]

FICTION: Risk Assessment

/ Jane Downing / Fiction
The duck flew right at her. A missile with wings. A dog – a small […]

FICTION: Lunch

/ Melissa Benton Barker / Fiction
The other day I had lunch with my ex. We do this twice a year, […]

FICTION: Three Rapunzels

/ Phoebe Cramer / Fiction
A princess is trapped in a tower. She was put there as a baby by […]

FICTION: Tawada’s Eye

/ Marcus Pactor / Fiction
Keller had tasted dirt in her lettuce before, but this time she blamed Roberts. Two […]

FICTION: Money

/ Patricia Quintana Bidar / Fiction
I needed money for gas, and my rent was due. UC San Francisco was just […]

FICTION: Consumption, Three Ways

/ Eli S. Evans / Fiction
1. An object with the appearance of a cylindrical metal tank approximately twenty times the […]

FICTION: Blessed Be

/ Eleanor Levine / Fiction
I am apparently good, damn good, in bed, but my self-love is wrinkled. I never […]

FICTION: A Levittown Original

/ Celeste Hamilton Dennis / Fiction
Hi there! The cards started after Brooke died in June. The first one arrived on […]

FICTION: Language Acquisition

/ Molly Gabriel / Fiction
My baby’s first word was redundant. I murmured, I love you, I love you, I […]

FICTION: Pastries of Despair

/ Caroljean Gavin / Fiction
On our walk up from the sea, we pass a seal, bloated, gashed, and tossed […]

FICTION: Algorithmic Prayers

/ Matthew Turner / Fiction
I’m not a confrontational person at all, I know enough about myself however to understand […]

FICTION: The Mirror Box

/ Gregg Williard / Fiction
Gregg Williard has work in The Collagist, Diagram, Infinity’s Kitchen, Muse/A, Your Impossible Voice and […]

FICTION: Under the Mountain

/ Justin Podur / Fiction
As Basharat huddled in the dark that night, the silence entered him like a cold […]

FICTION: Channel Surfing

/ Sebastian Castillo / Fiction
“Aw phooey!” —Donald Duck “I’m not home right now,” George said like a soft answering […]

FICTION: Wait

/ Kailash Srinivasan / Fiction
Dev pulled down one of the two shutters at the wine store to save time. […]

FICTION: Shoot

/ Jess Conway / Fiction
My uncle Colin is an OAP male model and I am watching one of his […]

FICTION: Summer Love

/ Anna Vangala Jones / Fiction
Annika has fallen in love. Annika is a bit bedraggled looking if all she gets […]

FICTION: Gold Ring Buried Deep

/ Meagan Masterman / Fiction
Deep I starved all winter, dreaming of how my belly would be in spring. Not […]

FICTION: Tooth and Nail

FICTION: Mikes

/ Yvonne Amey / Fiction
Everyone on this sofa is named Mike. We are in Barry’s apartment, but he is […]

FICTION: Creases and the Crescent Moon

/ Ipshita Mitra / Fiction
Evening. The sky looked like a crumpled, crisp white bed sheet. Every crease reminded her […]

FICTION: The Bare-Breasted Suffragettes

/ Diana Manole / Fiction
Introduction: Thirty Years of Post-Communism “The Bare-Breasted Suffragettes” is dedicated to the thirty-year anniversary of […]

FICTION: Good Bread

/ Corey Rieger / Fiction
His name tag says ‘Walter’, but everyone calls him ‘Walt’. He is unmistakably middle-aged. Larger-than-necessary […]

FICTION: The Joy of Music

/ Jung Young Su, translated by Anton Hur / Fiction
Prostate Cancer I laughed when I first heard Hyunsu had prostate cancer. But once I […]

FICTION: Lost Coast, CA ~ 1997

/ Kara Vernor / Fiction
That old guy who loiters around the food court seems lonely maybe, like he doesn’t […]

FICTION: Citizens Band

/ Amy Kiger-Williams / Fiction
I got a new set of walkie-talkies for my twelfth birthday. They were black and […]