Fiction

What Nakedness Is

Dini Parayitam -

Hours from the southern border, Vu Tran thought about the great pretense of love. His ex Nisha was—according to the e-vite—“Can you believe it?...

Adult Video Store

Sophia Shelton -

I had to be the one to go into the adult video store. Charlie didn’t have a fake ID, and even if he did,...

The Last Word

Domenick Ammirati -

The rain was steady that day, or was it snow. Or no, neither, none of the above. It hit 70 in late November that...

Bowerbird

Antonia Angress -

Louisa’s first assignment at Wrynn College of Art was paint home. She’d left home a week ago, and now, as she looked out the...

Greenland Is Dying

Aria Beth Sloss -

The first thing I do as my dead son is book the flight to Greenland. The grant money had already been deposited in his...

Chameleon

Frankie Concepcion -

When I was child, my mother would sometimes take me to sing at strangers’ funerals. She would pick me up after school or from...

Excerpt from Hivernages (Wintering)

Maude Deschênes-Pradet -

They say that Ville-réal was once an underground transportation system that crisscrossed beneath a metropolis. Back then, its only inhabitants were either poor or...

An American Echo

Rachel Hanson -

Teagan arrived in Hailey, Idaho, quickly finding work in a café where elk meatloaf and venison stew was a local standard. She had read...

What is Lost is Not Lost

Jared Lemus -

I finished explaining the plan to my brother, detailing all the specifics of my mental blueprints—how we would avoid the creaky floorboards, get the...

Sunset Lounge

Alice Kaltman -

As soon as Prudence came through the door, home for Spring Break, Miriam knew; sex, lots of it, was being had. Pru reeked of...