Fiction

Prophets

Brandon Taylor -

The famous black writer was in town to give a reading, and Coleman was not sure if he would go. He had known the...

Ophelia in the Underworld

Kit Mitchell -

On The Importance of Names ‘The fact is, we have doomed names,’ said Ophelia. She looked nothing like a pre-Raphaelite painting which was something she...

Wants

Jen Lue -

The artist studio where Julia slept was located in the northeast corner of the city, an hour-and-a-half by subway from Tiananmen Square. All of...

Everything We Do Brings Us Closer to the Truth

A.G.S. Gordon -

“I see your daughter around glittering things.” That prediction, suggestive of prizes and the trappings of the good life, was hand-written on a sheet of...

Imperial Valley

Krista Diamond -

Lauren At a gas station in Twentynine Palms, I bought two silk scarves. “Tie it over your head,” I said, studying Nadine’s reflection in the rearview...

The Mud Path

Lauren Garretson-Atkinson -

Wild Heron Plantation Chatham County, GA July, 1763 Coffey had finally made her decision— tonight was the night she’d become a woman. Most girls measured change against things...

Other Voices, Other Blues

David Exumé -

The car rides to swim class were the quietest parts of summer. Aside from the small talk Josephine threw out from the backseat of...

The Lightning Jar

Emily Woodworth -

It starts with spirits. Strong spirits. Many years ago, we captured lightning in a jar and relabeled it homemade sauce. And from this jar...

Coyote Smith

Madeline Stevens -

Elmer had seen a skull once, as a child, by the Zigzag river. There’d been moss growing over the bone as if it were...

Daughters of the Air

Kate McQuade -

The game is Spin the Bottle. But now that we’ve emptied the bottle, whiskey’s casting amber blurs across the front-yard dusk, and our voices...