FICTION: Summer Stories

/ M. Munro / Fiction
One June day years ago, when they were young, my mom and dad drop by […]

FICTION: Measured, Not Remembered

/ Carolyn Ogburn / Fiction
Elizabeth Bishop pecked delicately around the wild onion, her feathers sleek and warm in the […]

FICTION: Replete with Henna

/ Prashila Naik / Fiction
Your tongue flicks off the blood on your lower lip. It tastes extraordinary. Like it […]

FICTION: Taking the Call

/ Joe Linker / Fiction
They were supposed to be on vacation, but he was on his cell phone. Back […]

FICTION: Snow Flowers

/ Kashif S. Choudhry / Fiction
She sits at her window, hands pressed against the glass, sucking in the cold from […]

FICTION: 3 by Avilés

/ Édgar Omar Avilés (translated by Toshiya Kamei) / Fiction
Image: The Magician card, Visconti-Sforza Tarot deck, c. 1450 Final Act After wiping the sweat with […]

FICTION: Flapjacks and Waffle Mix

/ Kamil Ahsan / Fiction
Mid-lunch at a rustic eatery in Houston’s Theater District, Hamaad surprised himself by saying far […]

FICTION: Boots, Oaxaca

/ Eli S. Evans / Fiction
I had been in Oaxaca, Mexico for nearly a month with my wife and son, […]

FICTION: How Would You Grieve Me?

/ Denise Tolan / Fiction
One day, she said, looking up at me while planting parsley on her little patch […]

FICTION: My Etceteras

/ Eliza Mimski / Fiction
I’m ninety-four years old and people often ask me how it feels to be my […]

FICTION: 33 Bible Verses About Knives

/ Shane Jesse Christmass / Fiction
Or: An excerpt from ‘xerox over manhattan’ Plumes of soot on the bed-spread. President Ricky […]

FICTION: The Conditional Gift

/ Kristine Brown / Fiction
Image: Bull Fighting, Petr Konchalovsky, 1910 “I assume you picture me naked.” Regine knocked on my […]

FICTION: The Tasters

/ Michelle Ross / Fiction
The President, who preferred to be called The Wolf, believed The Ungrateful Ones would try […]

FICTION: Fate Lies in a Dagger

/ Daniel de León / Fiction
Shaving one morning, his steamed skin awash in the scent of his mother’s tobacco, Nadie […]

FICTION: Resident Assistants

/ John Tavares / Fiction
They were twins, like my sister and I, so automatically we felt an instant kinship, […]

FICTION: The Exquisite Corpse of Mallory Green

/ Sarah Nolan-Brueck / Fiction
Image: Girl with Auburn Hair, Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1882 “It’s a shame, really,” said Thomas […]

FICTION: Bounce House

/ Terence Hannum / Fiction
I. I like being Stella’s dad. I don’t get to be him that much. I’m […]

FICTION: Hole in the Head

/ Oliver Zarandi / Fiction
I woke up in the streets again. It was becoming a common occurrence for me, […]

FICTION: What’s a Girl Supposed to Do

/ Mileva Anastasiadou / Fiction
Last Christmas I gave him my heart. He broke it the very next day, just […]

FICTION: The Face

/ Sunil Sharma / Fiction
It was a face that looked familiar. We were seated in buses on opposite sides […]

FICTION: Philomela

/ Andy West / Fiction
She says she recognises my capacity for love. I feel hunger, the body’s expression of […]

FICTION: Minded

/ Ryan Chang / Fiction
I. The writer is positive that his sentences have been previously erased. For sure the […]

FICTION: Picnic

/ Johanna Wright / Fiction
The tablecloth comes first, a sheet snatched the moment the dryer tumbled to a halt. […]

FICTION: Little Mercies

/ Nishi Pulugurtha / Fiction
Anima looked at the watch. It was just about 5 am, she had to be […]

FICTION: Kismet

/ Rekha Valliappan / Fiction
‘Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!’ —J.R.R. Tolkien When she awoke a funny looking man […]

FICTION: Silent Monk

/ Sola Saar / Fiction
At the age of 14 my sister Katrina bought two plane tickets to Thailand. She […]

FICTION: Red Koi, Gold Koi

/ Ernesto González Barnert / Fiction
“Centuries later, when only the packaging is left of a society that consumed itself, the […]

FICTION: Well

/ Vivek Nath Mishra / Fiction
During summer vacation I would go to my grandmother’s place with my mother. A village […]

FICTION: Siri in Therapy

/ Alice Hatcher / Fiction
Doctor Edgars approached the couch, as if he might shake his patient’s hand, and then […]

FICTION: Cold Spell

/ L.M. Brown / Fiction
It was after 7pm and I was in the middle of work when I remembered […]