Keepin It Chad #4

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
The descent of a single Chad shall send fleeing from the land all beasts of hoof, feather and claw.

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Working on Ourselves

/ Zach Linge / Sex
Close your eyes and imagine sexless sex / The orgasmic desexed eyes and sex still / Sexless the eyes closed and sext lists

The Machine: A Dream in One Act

/ A. L. Anzalone / Fiction
I sat there in front of the machine, mystified. My boyfriend and I were supposed […]

Vlad Interviews: Jane Rosenberg LaForge

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
If I could be successful, I’d like it to mean I could stop worrying. 

FICTION: Family

/ Vivek Nath Mishra / Fiction
Sridhar was the banker of our group. The most generous among all my friends, and […]

FICTION: Summer Stories

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

MISFIT DOC: THE BABY

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 […]

Poem: Suzanne Wise

/ Suzanne Wise / Poetry
The sun’s light glazed the way in— / electric, unctuous oozing of dust and glory. / The one-way tinted glass abetting the light—the light ...

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 […]

La Fase Chonga

/ Ashuni Lucía Pérez / Letters & Essays
Around the time Fergie dropped her hit “Fergalicious” and the spoof “Chongalicious” followed, many people […]

FICTION: Boots, Oaxaca

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

Better Read Than Dead

/ Ed Simon / Misc
As I approach the mid-point of my second decade performing an imitation of being in academe, I’ve come to one deeply held conviction