Fiction

Death or The Dog

Jane Morton -

When you see the dog you might not know you are seeing him. He is black from snout to tail. And sometimes you might...

Coprolalia

Chloe Alberta -

I. I try to write about constipation and it turns into something about my mother. Okay. She used to give me enemas, in all those...

I’m A Mid-Thirty

Leesa Fenderson -

And from time to time I take used rolls of toilet paper from restaurants. Not time to time so much as all the time....

Fear

Mary Alice Stewart -

The cops and coroners left and we were allowed back into Helen’s apartment. It appeared that everything had been moved. Even the water stain,...

Rocinante

Rebecca Morgan Frank -

He would be a horse’s ass. He had been auditioning for ballet companies and responding to calls for small parts for a year when...

Likeness

Steph Grossman -

I. On Anj’s eighth birthday, her grandma Gwen warns, “If you look in the mirror for too long, you’ll start to see the devil.” Her grandma...

Hiroshima

Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton -

23:48 YAR—A Moscow Restaurant Lukashevich, the vice-president of a small but impressive bank, and Zeldin, the owner of four supermarkets, sat at a table served for...

The Dance

Julia Pike -

The first problem is that Hector Lopez drank too many Pink Lemonade Smirnoff Ices in the passenger seat of Johnny Karlsson’s mom’s 2002 Honda...

Domestic Life on the Frontier

Silas Jones -

When she was new to the neighborhood Audrey used to plod past Carol’s house in the heat of afternoon and think, ew. Carol’s split-level...

SALMON

Sebastian Castillo -

Excerpted from the novella SALMON by Sebastian Castillo. The shape of salmon I had never before ridden on a train. Of course, I had read about...