Fiction

Plan Ahead

Alice Kuipers -

Getting knocked up wasn’t part of the plan. I told Hamish, the black guy with the baby bird eyes, that I was going to...

Orbiting

Kim Addonizio -

What you love about pills is how small they are, how much energy is in them, like they’re atoms with electrons zinging around inside....

Pangaea

Jim Hanas -

Jeanie stared into the drawer beside her bathroom sink at all the foil disks ringed by plastic teardrops, each teardrop containing a tiny pill....

Chris Eaton: A Biography

Lori Hahnel -

She would always be alone. Like her parents. From childhood’s hour, she felt, she dreamt, that she had not been as others were, was...

Leisure

Evie Christie -

“Do you want to fuck?” “Hmm?” “Anymore?” “Of course.” Like everyone else, dismal poverty and ruthlessly wonderful lovers could characterize your early twenties. Never will so many people...

Fair Exchange

Michael Marshall Smith -

We’re in some bloke’s house the other night, nicking his stuff, and Bazza calls me over. We’ve been there twenty minutes already and if...

Miracle

Ruth Galm -

She has been watching Will play baseball in the park across the street, watching him bend his entire torso, the long, thin ankle of...

From Klara

Natalee Caple -

I’ll come back if you need me. I’ll know if you are feeling lost. And now it is night and you have left my...

Cheekbone

Larissa Diakiw -

I told you over lunch, where Kaiser buns seemed to sprout cucumber through a sheet of spinach, what I thought about Alec Melnyk, the...

Sissy

Zoe Whittall -

1. Sauntering down Aisle 6 at the 24-hour Dominion grocery store, Lee is cradling an overly large zucchini. It sits inside the sleeve of his...