FICTION: Algorithmic Prayers

/ Matthew Turner / Fiction
I’m not a confrontational person at all, I know enough about myself however to understand […]

FICTION: The Mirror Box

/ Gregg Williard / Fiction
Gregg Williard has work in The Collagist, Diagram, Infinity’s Kitchen, Muse/A, Your Impossible Voice and […]

FICTION: Under the Mountain

/ Justin Podur / Fiction
As Basharat huddled in the dark that night, the silence entered him like a cold […]

FICTION: Channel Surfing

/ Sebastian Castillo / Fiction
“Aw phooey!” —Donald Duck “I’m not home right now,” George said like a soft answering […]

FICTION: Wait

/ Kailash Srinivasan / Fiction
Dev pulled down one of the two shutters at the wine store to save time. […]

FICTION: Shoot

/ Jess Conway / Fiction
My uncle Colin is an OAP male model and I am watching one of his […]

FICTION: Gold Ring Buried Deep

/ Meagan Masterman / Fiction
Deep I starved all winter, dreaming of how my belly would be in spring. Not […]

FICTION: Tooth and Nail

FICTION: Mikes

/ Yvonne Amey / Fiction
Everyone on this sofa is named Mike. We are in Barry’s apartment, but he is […]

FICTION: Creases and the Crescent Moon

/ Ipshita Mitra / Fiction
Evening. The sky looked like a crumpled, crisp white bed sheet. Every crease reminded her […]

FICTION: The Bare-Breasted Suffragettes

/ Diana Manole / Fiction
Introduction: Thirty Years of Post-Communism “The Bare-Breasted Suffragettes” is dedicated to the thirty-year anniversary of […]

FICTION: Good Bread

/ Corey Rieger / Fiction
His name tag says ‘Walter’, but everyone calls him ‘Walt’. He is unmistakably middle-aged. Larger-than-necessary […]

FICTION: The Joy of Music

/ Jung Young Su, translated by Anton Hur / Fiction
Prostate Cancer I laughed when I first heard Hyunsu had prostate cancer. But once I […]

FICTION: Lost Coast, CA ~ 1997

/ Kara Vernor / Fiction
That old guy who loiters around the food court seems lonely maybe, like he doesn’t […]

FICTION: Citizens Band

/ Amy Kiger-Williams / Fiction
I got a new set of walkie-talkies for my twelfth birthday. They were black and […]

FICTION: The Chimney

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Fiction
The grate in the base of the old mill’s chimney opened onto nothing much I […]

FICTION: Ghost Bike

/ Jennifer Fliss / Fiction
She had lost her ride. The barely-there young woman runs her hand along the frame, […]

FICTION: The Reasons Why I Love You

/ Steve Gergley / Fiction
A Love Poem for My Beloved Wife (Who Other People Think Doesn’t Exist) on Her […]

FICTION: Double Identity

/ Laura Elisa Vizcaíno, trans. Toshiya Kamei / Fiction
Double Identity After a night of partying, the Prince woke up not remembering a thing, […]

FICTION: 3X

/ Ron Burch / Fiction
Cherry Tree I stood in the cherry tree, the branches, stripped bare. To my west […]

FICTION: Same Husband Twice

/ Nicholas Grider / Fiction
I think you are still a carnival when you are asleep, I think I went […]

FICTION: A Busy Day

/ Anupama Mishra / Fiction
It was a busy day as Ravi had been transferred to another city. The city […]

FICTION: Two

/ Melissa Ragsly / Fiction
I tell the landlord I have a look-a-like brother down south who wears a straw […]

FICTION: Incompatible Ideas

/ Kim Magowan / Fiction
Ben and Miriam were sitting on the stoop of the playhouse in the backyard of […]

FICTION: A Profile

/ Daniel David Gothard / Fiction
I’ve never been a good judge of character at first sight, and when Michael decided […]

FICTION: The Good Morrow

/ Ryan Napier / Fiction
My friends and I liked to speculate about M. We knew her from graduate school. […]