Nights of Mercy

/ Analeah Loschiavo / Fiction
Today is the last day here. I knew it when I woke up. I have waited […]

W’s Decorum

/ Martin Barkely / Fiction
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR TRAVIS COUNTY  AUSTIN, TEXAS ___________________________ CASE: 673421879 Plaintiff  Stickley, Hibble, […]

On Rot

/ Rose Barnsley / Fiction
The thing about lonely people is its everyone. We all get our joy from somewhere […]

Fiction: EMBRYOMEME.

A House in Europe

/ João Cerqueira / Fiction
The journey took more than four hours. Crammed to the gunnels with more than a […]

Fiction: Loud CIA

2015 Fiction Highlights

/ Allison Grimaldi-Donahue / Fiction
Here are some highlights from QMT fiction in 2015.  Actually, I’ve only been fiction editor […]

Purvs

/ Svetlana Kitto / Fiction
“Make sure it doesn’t stick,” Grandma says, instructing me from a little stool next to […]

Outside In

/ Hugo Dos Santos / Fiction
The buzzer opening the gate is an alarm clock releasing him from a hazy dream […]

Excerpt: My Brooklyn Writer Friend

/ Greg Gerke / Fiction
My friend Ari tells me he’s going to tell me something he does not want me telling anyone.

Fiction: CHARCOALED DOGS WITH A DEATH LOOK.

/ Queen Mob / Fiction
Portals to afterlife opening in the Middle East. When I meet her, her body has dullness not able to hold her properly. She enters through the backdoor.

On Lockdown

/ Nick Admussen / Fiction, Misc
The children were meek behind my makeshift barricade: an active shooter pushed his way in […]

DEGRADASHUN

/ Peter Milne Greiner / Fiction
“This is how you use a standard club,” I began, not grim, not sagely, but […]

Poem for Erin

If the Woodcutter Were a Junkie

/ Tyrese L. Coleman / Fiction
The house posed as a seductive woman: eyes—hollow black windows, the door—a plywood mouth opened […]

David Shields

/ Pedro Ponce / Fiction
My wife holds open the refrigerator. We’re out of David Shields, she says. I look […]

1997

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Fiction
Back when we had knees the colour of maroon crayons, one July evening I sat […]

Tropic of Tinder

/ Rhea DeRose-Weiss / Fiction
I didn’t immediately know he was a magician. He wasn’t wearing a cape or carrying […]

THE LAST SEERS

/ Pedro Ponce / Fiction
    One by one, the seers succumbed. Their necks and shoulders bulged. Their cheeks […]

Vacation with My Mother

/ Fawn Parker / Fiction
This is an excerpt from Parker's forthcoming collection, Looking Good and Having a Good Time, […]

A VISTA OF FOOTCANDLE

/ Pedro Ponce / Fiction
There are no postcards for sale in the vicinity of Footcandle, Massachusetts. This is not […]

Come to Jesus

/ Hawa Allan / Fiction
“And that’s the only way to make it at the Practice.” This is what Imogene Taylor said to Grace Hardison while smoothing a slip of shiny black hair down the side of her neck.

Back to Reality

/ Simon Pinkerton / Fiction
When they let me out I cried tears of relief; wracking tears, too many for […]

Beelzebub Stole my Bicycle

/ Erich Brumback / Fiction
June sits outside of Arthur’s at three in the morning with a broomstick strapped to […]

Old Women and their Rolling Bags

/ Tasha Coryell / Fiction
She was knitting when it happened. She was nearly always knitting. She couldn’t focus unless […]

The Catastrophic Record

/ Ann Gelder / Fiction
Dr. Dennis Hartung, the renowned geologist, is covered head-to-toe in mud. He hacks away at […]