Fiction

Tarquin’s Party

Emma Sloley -

Tarquin Gould’s parents were out of town, so he had to throw a party, those were the rules. The news circulated like a virus:...

Blue Million Miles

Alex Higley -

As a girl, eight, nine-years-old, when Hyun would wake from a nightmare in her small radiator damp bedroom, glowing stars on the ceiling in...

Ephrata

Liam October O'Brien -

Benjamin woke with someone beside him. His cheek was pressed against the window, where rain struck and beaded. It had been the storm that...

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...