Fiction

The Gold Thread

John Cotter -

Heather knew there was a gold thread hidden in the city. In the months she’d lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant she’d looked behind loose bricks, under...

The Contest

Patricia McCrystal -

It all started, as so many things used to, with a letter in the mail. Clarence Merriweather plucked the postcard out of the mailbox. In...

Lexapro

Drew Buxton -

We did the photo shoot outside the Austin OCD Center. The staff took pictures of me and Scott. They took pictures of us sitting...

In These Troubled and Troubling Times

Katie Hale -

Marie first became obsessed with digging things up the week they buried her dad. It started with the time capsule under the rock in...

If She Has No Coffin

Shahriar Mandanipour -

The following is an excerpt from Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour and translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili. Seasons of Purgatory is available now...

The Martin Heidegger Statue

Jasmine Dreame Wagner -

The first thing the surgeon asks when he sees my scan is: when was the accident? I haven’t been in an accident. Earlier this...

The Accident

Kelly Thomas -

Today I go to the city pool and am relieved to find teenagers working who don’t give a fuck about me. I linger to...

Song Plugger & The Kid

DC Pierson -

Kid’s a hell of a songwriter but he’s weird. Let me tell you what I mean: He’ll fixate on some object or maybe even...

All This Could Be Yours

Rodrigo Duran -

My mom and I were driving to church when we came upon a dead raccoon on the side of the road. I don’t know...

The Trip

Elodie Saint-Louis -

It took them three hours to walk down to the campgrounds. By the end of the journey, her lips were split, her stomach tightened...