FICTION: Insect Group 3-23

/ Rich Ives / Fiction
Not a Pocket or a Door, Not a Renegade Shore Freya’s Fritillary Butterfly Larrys above, […]

FICTION: A Saga of Blasphemy

/ Hareendran Kallinkeel / Fiction
A church bell tolls, a single strike, noise that pierces her ears Rosy’s eyes dart, […]

FICTION: The Masterpiece

/ Dennis Pahl / Fiction
I don’t know why I even bother to write stories. How many people will read […]

FICTION: In Situ

/ Lexi Pandell / Fiction
Kmart is burning on TV. So is the church and hospital. I pack my toothbrush, […]

FICTION: Piranha in the Fishbowl

/ N.K. Woods / Fiction
‘So, Amy, what have you achieved in the last twelve months?’ In the meeting room, […]

FICTION: Batons

/ Matt Fallaize / Fiction
And then Jocky says d’you think she’d have been worth it then? And I take […]

FICTION: Death Rattle, A Three-Act Play

/ Jazz De Nero / Fiction
1 Onstage is a red curtain. There is water pooling beneath it. Behind the curtain […]

FICTION: True Amounts to Everything

/ Dawn Lo / Fiction
At IOTA, the Institute of True Amounts, every desk, chair, colored pencil, and preschooler was […]

FICTION: The Pleasure Palace

/ Gregory Cioffi / Fiction
The zendo was especially quiet that afternoon as many monastic practitioners perfectly aligned themselves in […]

FICTION: Mise-en-scène

/ Kamil Ahsan / Fiction
This road, where the dark water in the little tributary of the Canal stills, has […]

FICTION: Lipstick

/ Cameron Finch / Fiction
My mother calls me from her bathroom with her knuckles. She knocks twice on our […]

FICTION: The Last of Rita Margarita

/ Lisa Reily / Fiction
The light over the operating table was blinding, but it comforted Rita. She could see […]

FICTION: The Witches of Water Valley

/ Sean Ennis / Fiction
They call it Knit Club, I think because of the length of their needles. They […]

FICTION: Pulcinella’s Wife

/ E.C. Messer / Fiction
After a time, a small light becomes visible in the center, increasing in brightness as […]

FICTION: Alectryomancy

/ Finley MacDonald / Fiction
Oro snatched up the grab hoe. Heated stalks and leaves crashed around her as she […]

FICTION: Little Jug

/ Laurel Shimasaki / Fiction
He was drinking a Jarritos when they met. From then on: tamarind, mango, pineapple, strawberry. […]

FICTION: Looking for Rick

/ Jacqueline Doyle / Fiction
She’s lying sideways on a scratchy wool couch with this guy’s half-tumescent cock in her […]

FICTION: Neighbor Network

/ A.E. Weisgerber / Fiction
It’s a fox. It’s a bear. Carjacker. Package thief. Jehovah’s witness. Thin Mints. Ding-dongditch. A […]

FICTION: Brexit and Soda Farls

/ Neil Burns / Fiction
On a barstool, in a small Dublin boozer, studying himself in the mirror, forty-year-old Northerner, […]

FICTION: Shoplifting Against Capitalism

/ Lola Noir / Fiction
“It’s time,” you say, “4 to 6 is rush hour and it’s best to go […]

FICTION: Risk Assessment

/ Jane Downing / Fiction
The duck flew right at her. A missile with wings. A dog – a small […]

FICTION: Lunch

/ Melissa Benton Barker / Fiction
The other day I had lunch with my ex. We do this twice a year, […]

FICTION: Tawada’s Eye

/ Marcus Pactor / Fiction
Keller had tasted dirt in her lettuce before, but this time she blamed Roberts. Two […]

FICTION: Money

/ Patricia Quintana Bidar / Fiction
I needed money for gas, and my rent was due. UC San Francisco was just […]

FICTION: Consumption, Three Ways

/ Eli S. Evans / Fiction
1. An object with the appearance of a cylindrical metal tank approximately twenty times the […]

FICTION: Blessed Be

/ Eleanor Levine / Fiction
I am apparently good, damn good, in bed, but my self-love is wrinkled. I never […]

FICTION: A Levittown Original

/ Celeste Hamilton Dennis / Fiction
Hi there! The cards started after Brooke died in June. The first one arrived on […]

FICTION: Language Acquisition

/ Molly Gabriel / Fiction
My baby’s first word was redundant. I murmured, I love you, I love you, I […]

FICTION: Two Black Stones and an Old God

/ Sunil Sharma / Fiction
They were an ordinary pair of two black stones. Lifeless. Solitary. Forlorn. Buffeted by strong […]