Japan Station No.1: Anecdote No. 1

/ Andrew Tran / Fiction
Outside a coffee shop, in a back alley, Sean Taylor—a skinny, young man who always […]

12.5 Review: Magda Szabo’s The Door

/ Judson Hamilton / Fiction
Are you in an MFA program for fiction? Well you can save yourself a ton of cash by just buying this book and studying it closely.

The Skateboard

/ Jack Nicholls / Fiction
After thirty-six hours of negotiations nothing had changed. The two men sat indoors in heavy […]

Sheffield Beach

/ Mike McClelland (Story) Casey McClelland (Painting) / Fiction
  Two fat, dappled dachshunds greet me at the door of the beach house, baring […]

SpoDew

/ SJ Sindu / Fiction
By the second month of the Goth House Experiment, David wanted to shoot Oscar Wilde […]

Her Manhood

/ Héctor Serna Chávez / Fiction
How would an expat Mexican drag queen camped out in Amsterdam end it all? In […]

The Third Hand

/ Michael Welsh / Fiction, Misc
Michael Welsh is an artist, writer, and curator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He […]

Lunch With Zelda

/ Malin James / Fiction
Yesterday was my last day at the National Archives. It was a good contract—lucrative and […]

The Cheese Grater

/ Genna Rivieccio / Fiction
Cheese grating is hard work. Not everyone can do it. Especially not a woman, not […]

Frank Sinatra goes flat (1953)

/ Zachary Scott Hamilton / Fiction
  If asked, Frank and Suzie wouldn’t singe, or aim. It didn’t matter by the […]

The Rainbow Chaser

/ Mary B. Sellers / Fiction
This particular boy liked the ends of rainbows. One of his favorites: taking a bottle […]

What It Takes to Love You

/ Katie M. Flynn / Fiction
Uday had his hand up my dress, an automatic rifle resting against my bare knee. […]

A near colorless thread

/ Amanda Boyle / Fiction
When Tanya was awake, she always had her laptop on, and she spent so many […]

Eat Me

/ Shana Graham / Fiction
At 4 a.m. in yet another hotel room, the last dregs of the party thrusting […]

Contest Winner: The Cow

/ Peter Thai / Fiction
The cow lies in a stall among other cows, feeding upon feed, being (from time […]

Contest: Scheherazade

/ devi yesodharan / Fiction
  People die out of turn in this part of town. The children go before […]

Contest: Dear Sister

/ Clio Velentza / Fiction
Dear Sister,   The flowers bloomed all by themselves, overnight. Nobody has planted anything in […]

Contest: Orion (c.1955)

/ Zachary Scott Hamilton / Fiction
Utensils, old demonstrational videos of underwater lounges and forks, and knives growing purple urchins, growing […]

Contest: Quagmire

/ Rick Vosper / Fiction
I am wallowing in the swamp again. Face mask, snorkel – naked. Sharp blades of […]

Contest: The Tower

Contest: The Day’s Foremost Hour

/ Drew Dickerson / Fiction
Sweaty fingers worked away at a wiry beard, the man’s nose defying powder and shining […]

Sleep Walking

/ Mark Plummer / Fiction
Colette is ready to leave when I go into the kitchen for breakfast. She’s in […]

Contest: Faker

/ Amanda Marbais / Fiction
Zoe stretched across the backseat, pressing her feet into my thigh, hair plastered to the […]

Contest: Wire Nuts

/ Nancy Devine / Fiction
You’d think the first annual Worldwide Women’s Wiring Festival would happen in Winnipeg, Wichita, Winnemucca, […]

Contest: Navaja

/ Francisco McCurry / Fiction
Manny slammed the front door. He ran down the rusted iron stairs with the fourteen […]

SHORT STORY CONTEST WINNERS

/ Allison Grimaldi-Donahue / Fiction, Misc
We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2016 Queen Mob’s Teahouse Short Fiction […]