Fiction

First Light

Andrew Palmer -

The First Light Fishway sat just upriver of a hundred-foot-tall hydroelectric dam. It consisted of a small brick open-air shelter and an underground viewing...

Dark Social

Alex Webb Wilson -

I can’t say if it’s worth trying to track anything in our reality. I know every three winters we have these patterns where it...

Maintenance Requests

Ben Sandman -

Date: June 4 11:13amTo: Linda (Rockland Realty)Subject: Recycling binHi Linda, Good to bump into you coming back from The Comet (and sorry if I was...

Disembarking

Andrea Ruggirello -

This was the summer before 9/11. They still let cars on the Staten Island ferry back then. Forty-two at a time. It was my...

A Stomach Full of Clenched Fists

Timea Sipos -

I’m on the toilet again when I answer my mother’s call, urine dripping out of me like hot sauce from a long-neck bottle. She...

The Bartender’s Cure: An Excerpt

Wesley Straton -

The following is an excerpt from the novel The Bartender's Cure by Wesley Straton. The Bartender's Cure is available now from Flatiron Books. You’ve seen bars like this....

our angel from the sky

jj peña -

they say she fell from the sky, a fallen angel we rescued. song, the fisherman, was the one who pulled her from the sea....

What Came First

Hannah Kingsley-Ma -

Thomas noticed the boa constrictor draped along a stretch of brick wall. It was lying there festively, like a stretch of holly. He prodded...

Recycling Day

Natalie Villacorta -

When I come downstairs and Mom doesn’t look up from the paper, I know she’s mad. I know we’re not going to Annapolis. She’s mad...

Ocean Park Quarantine

Derrick Martin-Campbell -

In the spring of the first of the seven quarantines, there lived a young man in a small house on Lantern Drive in a...