Fiction

The Turnpike

Leia Menlove -

It is summer of 1978, and a woman without a wedding ring drives east on the Will Roger’s Turnpike, the straightest route out of...

Distance

Debbie Urbanski -

I first noticed how the world was retreating from me on a morning in early June after it had rained for nearly eight days....

Welcome to My Harem

Virginia Konchan -

The summer after my nineteenth birthday, Cedar Point paid me excellent money to wear a wig of raven tresses and full-length gown of rich...

Charlotte Quinn Dreams of Rooms

Nicole Baute -

Charlotte Quinn is six the first time I see her, with fine yellow hair and a pink birthmark she’ll have on her cheek til...

Staccato

Colin Graham -

Here the men are different. Of course they are. They could not be the same as us. I knew that this would be so....

Spells

Matthew Daddona -

I am starting the Saturday ritual upstairs of moving the old boxes from the new bedroom back into the old bedroom when the doorbell...

Blow the House Down & Other Stories

Peg Alford Pursell -

Blow the House Down “Blow the house down!” Tommy says. He’s in his pajamas, thin at the knees, too short. His ankles and wrists jut,...

Cold

Arjun Basu -

The house was cold. A malevolent kind of cold. Like something haunted. The cold blew in and out of Ravi. It was like the...

The Swan as Metaphor for Love

Amelia Gray -

The Swan as Metaphor for Love is included in Amelia Gray's collection Gutshot, which is now available from FSG. Purchase it from Powell's A swan's...

The Poetry Audition

K. Anis Ahmed -

Excerpted from Good Night, Mr. Kissinger and Other Stories, available now from UPL Books. Bahram and Jamshed were dressed alike as children because their father...