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 […]

FICTION: True Amounts to Everything

/ Dawn Lo / Fiction
At IOTA, the Institute of True Amounts, every desk, chair, colored pencil, and preschooler was […]

FICTION: The Pleasure Palace

/ Gregory Cioffi / Fiction
The zendo was especially quiet that afternoon as many monastic practitioners perfectly aligned themselves in […]

FICTION: Mise-en-scène

/ Kamil Ahsan / Fiction
This road, where the dark water in the little tributary of the Canal stills, has […]

FICTION: Lipstick

/ Cameron Finch / Fiction
My mother calls me from her bathroom with her knuckles. She knocks twice on our […]

FICTION: The Last of Rita Margarita

/ Lisa Reily / Fiction
The light over the operating table was blinding, but it comforted Rita. She could see […]

FICTION: The Witches of Water Valley

/ Sean Ennis / Fiction
They call it Knit Club, I think because of the length of their needles. They […]

FICTION: Pulcinella’s Wife

/ E.C. Messer / Fiction
After a time, a small light becomes visible in the center, increasing in brightness as […]

FICTION: Alectryomancy

/ Finley MacDonald / Fiction
Oro snatched up the grab hoe. Heated stalks and leaves crashed around her as she […]

FICTION: Little Jug

/ Laurel Shimasaki / Fiction
He was drinking a Jarritos when they met. From then on: tamarind, mango, pineapple, strawberry. […]