Her Latest Abstraction

/ Mark A. Cronin / Fiction
Still, I hungered for her the same way the sickness hungers for a host.

ERASURE IV

/ Grant Maierhofer / Fiction
X’s time in high school was like yours, and he was miserable.

………..11 Selfies

LAST CALL FOR FICTION!

ON THE OFFENSE

NEW FREE EUROPE

/ Kyle Coma-Thompson / Fiction
He was stationed in West Berlin in 1982, and he was twenty-two, and black.

#20

#13

THE HEALER

/ João Cerqueira and translated by Chris Mingay / Fiction
And so the bricklayer Raimundo, without recourse for magic arts or artifice, transformed himself into Professor Kacimba.

#7

MY DEATH

/ Queen Mob / Fiction
I know the man at the bus stop has a rag soaked in ether at the ready, because all men at all bus stops have a rag soaked in ether.

…Squeal for Joy

THREE COLD CASES

/ Queen Mob / Fiction
A shop floor mannequin washed ashore on the East Beach at Dunbar on December 5th 2014 at some point in the early morning.

AFTERWARD.

PURGATORY

POST-APOCALYPTIC

MIDWAY

TOO MANY THINGS HAPPEN IN AUGUST

/ Queen Mob / Fiction
When I can no longer stand to look at him I go to Costco, lost among bundles of toilet paper and three pound blocks of butter.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF NARODISTAN

GOOD SAMARITAN

……………………CAT TAIL

/ Allison Grimaldi-Donahue / Fiction
I was standing there in the doorway, between the screen-door and the big, heavy wooden […]

Exes

/ Queen Mob / Fiction
Some people are prolific with Xs. Some use a single X, some several small xxxs.

Surveillance City

/ Queen Mob / Fiction
Promising herself that she would not evade the flickering cursor for more than a few moments, Anne O’Hanlon could not resist Googling her own name.

Who is Alan Disaster

/ Queen Mob / Fiction
Alan Disaster is the excitement and boredom and embarrassment of youth. He’s you when you […]