FICTION: Disturb My Slumber

/ Matt Rowan / Fiction
A boy spat on a brick wall, thinking nothing of it. Or if thinking something […]

FICTION: Movie Time

/ Nishi Pulugurtha / Fiction
On a warm September evening they had gone for a movie. Shubhadip usually did not […]

FICTION: Minerva, California

/ Seamus O'Connor / Fiction
The night we arrived in Minerva we came into town over the old drawbridge, into […]

FICTION: Cyclone Season

/ EC Sorenson / Fiction
They approach A tangerine lands in Tom’s hands, thrown from the across the pond, over […]

FICTION: My Father, the Watchmaker

/ Gaurav Monga / Fiction
Next to the clock tower sits my father in a shop where he sells watches. […]

FICTION: Baby, I’m Comin’

/ Aaron H. Aceves / Fiction
We will be lying on our white leather sofa, watching TV. You’ll be nestled underneath […]

FICTION: Blackout

/ Abby Manzella / Fiction
The lights are out. The wind beats the “Welcome” sign that came with the apartment […]

FICTION: Restless Myth

/ Coleman Bomar / Fiction
He was just another hellenistic hero, born blessed, who sought greater horizons than huts under […]

FICTION: Traumic Knock

/ SJ Fowler / Fiction
‘I am the thinnest person I know (and that’s saying something, for I am no […]

FICTION: To Carrie with the Big Blue Eyes

/ Emily Painton / Fiction
I didn’t know yet if I liked girls, but I liked you. With your intense […]

FICTION: Clipped Wings

/ Mark Plummer / Fiction
Nick took the main road out of the village towards the little town. When an […]

FICTION: Haunted Hearts

/ Saba Syed Razvi / Fiction
Jasmine and Lila were eight years old when their parents moved them from the busy […]

FICTION: An Abstract Passenger

/ Victoria Brooks / Fiction
Facing down the tracks, I see my path to my girls: it is hard like […]

FICTION: Woman with a Head of Arrows

/ Darla Mottram / Fiction
I discovered a puppy stuck in the drain. Light grey with black eyes that oozed. […]

FICTION: Before Four Stomachs

/ Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick / Fiction
With a mouthful of grass, the cow plucks up a patch of dirt that covers […]

FICTION: Dear Credit Card Thief

/ Ulrica Hume / Fiction
Dear Credit Card Thief, I think of you—hunched, green cast, a zombie of the ephemeral, […]

FICTION: Mask Fragments

/ Fin Sorrel / Fiction
1 In discovering a tree of all black teeth through a tunnel, I find my […]

REVIEW: Soul Data

/ Fe Orellana / Fiction
The Maze of Transparencies Karen An–hwei Lee Ellipsis Press: New York, 2019 Speculative fiction, in […]

FICTION: The Future Is Magic

/ Jon Doyle / Fiction
The Idea It was one of the Russians who said it. Something like, although my […]

FICTION: Forgotten

/ Jody Gerbig / Fiction
Ginny, the home nurse, shows up for her third visit at seven a.m. wearing flowery […]

FICTION: Nesting

/ Ariel Kusby / Fiction
When I return to my empty room, I open the window and let the heat […]

FICTION: Something You Admired

/ RW Spryszak / Fiction
We didn’t say good-bye before you came to resemble a hundred other people I used […]

FICTION: Cannot Touch

/ Julia Gerhardt / Fiction
The sheets have to be bleached, that’s for certain. I watch him from the end […]

FICTION: So Many Delicacies

/ Kara Gall / Fiction
The first brain I ever saw was a deer brain encapsulated in a large Mason […]

FICTION: Rolling Along

/ Elliott Turner / Fiction
Yennifer finished her evening workout at the Boxing Gym near the main plaza in Edinburg, […]

FICTION: The Viewing

/ Terence Hannum / Fiction
In the gray light of the afternoon, the rain falls lightly through the towering pines […]

FICTION: Huff, Puff, Blow

/ Jess Richardson / Fiction
As far as temporary homelessness goes, it was a good temporary homelessness, a great temporary […]