Only Lilian

/ Ilana Masad / Fiction
Lilian likes to say things about herself. She likes to say she is a dreamer. […]

One of Those Nights

/ Rebecca Hannigan / Fiction
One of Those Nights / It is one of those nights when you are lying […]

Mr. Girard Strikes Again

/ Luke Kokoszka / Fiction
Anger is what you feel. No sympathy, no compassion, no understanding. You feel anger, and […]

Carrieanne & The Old Voice

/ Sean Whiteman / Fiction
    Carrieanne is a ten year-old portion of the American Pie. Her golden locks […]

Naomi

/ Ellen Chai / Fiction
  I Today is the birth and death day of my daughter, Naomi. The year, […]

Yellow Water

/ David Henson / Fiction
Every night, before I can get any sleep myself, I slip into the rooms of […]

After Hours

/ Julia Horwitz / Fiction
Motor oil dripping off the dinner plate should have stained my dress. The fitted blue […]

SPECTRAL

/ Michael Holladay / Fiction
I don’t know how the past can be in the present, and I don’t know […]

Reads of the Year

/ Laura Waddell / Fiction
Calorie content of your pizza slice by slice, as I read it aloud to you. […]

The Graft

/ Sara Kachelman / Fiction
Listen: I kissed you with a dead man’s mouth sewn into my mouth. I had […]

The Ends of a Face

/ Zoe Gold / Fiction
Whenever I catch myself in the bathroom mirror my self has an air about it […]

The Walls

/ Brandon Freels / Fiction
The nurse told me to take a seat. There was only a rocking chair in […]

Celia, Sex, and the Laundromat

/ Eliza Mimski / Fiction
Dirty socks. There was something erotic about the way the cotton picked up the smell. […]

Darlings

/ Kaj Tanaka / Fiction
(Part I) We have been instructed to kill our darlings when we write, as if […]

The Gondolier

/ Dave K. / Fiction
Riviere's the gondelier waggles his bushy eyebrows at specific points during each of his songs to amuse the adults. As he sings for the crowd, he scans their faces. Smiles of a certain width guarantee a coin—or better yet, a colorful bank note—tossed underhand into his boat.

The video.

/ Emer Lyons / Fiction
She had the board game Dream Phone and a brother who slept in her bed. […]

Kinship

/ Mike Dressel / Fiction
Cleaning out my closet the other day I came across the gingham shirt, the one […]

Her Effigy

/ Derick Dupre / Fiction
I walked into the kitchen and I thought I saw a glittering. I crouched down […]

My Fetishist

/ Maxine Stoker / Fiction
It was one of the things I most liked about you at first—how easy it […]

The Last Ever Party in the Drowning Parishes

/ Travis Mushett / Fiction
  This was the last time the balconies and the ironwork galleries of the Vieux […]

Sukiyaki

/ Michael Cuglietta / Fiction
I crack open a can of Sapporo, take it out to the balcony, lean over […]

No Dominion

/ Leon Craig / Fiction
Darkness and silence and cold. Startled, then languorous again. Cold blackness covered me. I blinked […]

First Carvel in Beijing

/ May-lee Chai / Fiction
“It’s a little hole in the wall,” Luce says, humble-bragging, “but they make the best […]

The Town of Slumber

/ Danielle Alexander / Fiction
We have heard of binges: sleep-eating, sleep-driving, the result of grandiose moods. Well, all these […]

Soaking

/ Aram Mrjoian / Fiction
Once the first snowfall of winter stuck, my grandfather took to sleeping in the bathtub […]

Dissimulation

Paradise City

/ Asia El Rayan & Rami el Harayri / Fiction
  I wish I’d never been born. No, that’s not quite true. I wish he’d […]

Misophonia

/ Francesca Recchia / Fiction
I always thought of myself as a squeamish, high maintenance bitch. There are things I […]