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. […]

FICTION: Looking for Rick

/ Jacqueline Doyle / Fiction
She’s lying sideways on a scratchy wool couch with this guy’s half-tumescent cock in her […]

FICTION: Neighbor Network

/ A.E. Weisgerber / Fiction
It’s a fox. It’s a bear. Carjacker. Package thief. Jehovah’s witness. Thin Mints. Ding-dongditch. A […]

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 […]