Fiction

My Behavior

Sean Cavanaugh -

The video started quietly, with a forest in the Southeast where metal dishes hung from wire stands and from some of the trees. There...

Perishables

Julie Ae Kim -

The first time I met Refrigerator was at Sentosa, a Malaysian restaurant that has now gone out of business in Flushing where I grew...

Obligate

Morgan Thomas -

Jerett predicted the breakup. Predicted it not as anyone might predict a breakup among lovers in a quad, but as a geologist would predict...

The Bet

Jemimah Wei -

6 AM: 29 degrees at 93% humidity with 41% chance of rain. It was the morning of the walk. The temperature regular, but the...

Grand Plan

G.B. Yuba -

People don’t expect me to be good at basketball. Most basketball players are tall, and I am an unassuming short woman. But for this...

Vessel

Angelo Hernandez Sias -

The Cube was dark and metal and bigger than us. It balanced on one of its points, and spun if you pushed it. The...

Gold Pawn

Cora Lewis -

"Gold Pawn" by Cora Lewis was originally published in Joyland Magazine on December 21, 2023 as an excerpt from her novella-in-progress. The completed novella,...

Dengue Girl

Michel Nieva, translated by Rahul Bery -

Excerpted from the novel Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva, out on February 4th, 2025 from Astra House, and published in the UK by Serpent’s Tail. Upon...

New Baltimore

Courtney Sender -

1. He is only 22—he still has baby fat around his cheeks—but a slipped disc in his back makes him incapable of moving himself in. You...

Split Tongue

Niv Sekar -

I only picked up because my mother never called me. “Kopal, you’ve upset your sister,” she said. “Don’t be stupid.” I told myself I meant to...