FICTION: Ghost Bike

/ Jennifer Fliss / Fiction
She had lost her ride. The barely-there young woman runs her hand along the frame, […]

FICTION: Double Identity

/ Laura Elisa Vizcaíno, trans. Toshiya Kamei / Fiction
Double Identity After a night of partying, the Prince woke up not remembering a thing, […]

FICTION: 3X

/ Ron Burch / Fiction
Cherry Tree I stood in the cherry tree, the branches, stripped bare. To my west […]

FICTION: Same Husband Twice

/ Nicholas Grider / Fiction
I think you are still a carnival when you are asleep, I think I went […]

FICTION: A Busy Day

/ Anupama Mishra / Fiction
It was a busy day as Ravi had been transferred to another city. The city […]

FICTION: Ink

/ Christopher James / Fiction
Black coffee, old donuts and folding chairs. That’s the meeting I met Piot at. The […]

FICTION: Small Favors

/ Evan James Sheldon / Fiction
The woman was reading on the beach, or more accurately she was blocking the blinding […]

FICTION: Raise the Babies

/ Jan Stinchcomb / Fiction
Goth Nanny The baby sees black eyeliner circling dead eyes that teach skepticism, or something […]

FICTION: Two

/ Melissa Ragsly / Fiction
I tell the landlord I have a look-a-like brother down south who wears a straw […]

FICTION: Triptych

/ Eric Williams / Fiction
A Nightmare: Pythias was elected Aedile for the city of Hypata, and his first act […]

FICTION: Incompatible Ideas

/ Kim Magowan / Fiction
Ben and Miriam were sitting on the stoop of the playhouse in the backyard of […]

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 […]