Fiction

Catie Disabato -

The three of us tossed Avi in the bathroom and locked her in. She screamed for hours, until her voice gave out, then banged...

Stephen Thomas -

Called my ex on the phone and said how about now. They said not so sure bout it, I know we’ve talked about things...

Cody Klippenstein -

Cale is treading water in the middle of the deep end, water sloshing in his ears and lapping at his chin as he listens...

Daniel Mueller -

I. In a world forever re-creating itself in the image of itself seen on screens, the shift from 100% cotton jeans to those made of...

Adam Sol -

We hated him when he was a boy – he was a poor student, an embarrassment on the pitch, and his family owned the...

Bryan Hurt -

PYTHEAS First of all Pytheas, Pytheas of Greece. He was everything that you’d expect from an ancient Greek person. Toga laurel wreath, all of...

Ammi Keller -

The man sat hunched above us on the hot tub’s ladder, his ankles in the water, his nipples pendulous and oyster pink. “So what...

Emily St. John Mandel -

Excerpted from the novel The Lola Quartet, available now from Unbridled Books. 1. Anna had fallen into a routine, or as much of a routine as...

A.G. Pasquella -

At the mall a lady offers me a free sample of zit cream and I’m about to be all sarcastic, like “Look, lady— I’ve...

Clifford Garstang -

I’m in the middle of an argument with my mother—she thinks I should ask her friend’s daughter Denise Knickerbocker out on a date while...