Fiction

Where the Women Go

Chelsey Grasso -

Bryan is not my boyfriend. He is a fifty-six-year-old man who pays to use my body. He sits on the edge of the bed...

Your Hand, Your Dog

Lillian Fishman -

In the years before Haviva I could be forgiven for trifling with women and saying to myself—later on there will be less time to...

A Woman’s Life, in 10 Scenes

Juhea Kim -

1. The first time Celeste understood the word “black” was when she saw him idling by his horse outside the race track. People thought that out...

A Bedtime Story

Gideon Jacobs -

Editor's Note: The below story includes hyperlinks to Cameos the author ordered from the perspective of the protagonist. In order to fully enjoy the...

Hoarse

Caroline Zancan -

She was the one who always did most of the talking, and her voice was almost completely gone by the time they were seated. After...

Powerhouse

Emily Chew -

Once, at age nineteen, she’d tried changing her first name to Lexie, which didn’t take and, a decade later, still made her feel ineffective...

Marlon

Maddie Crum -

Marlon — who had given her that name? She didn’t like to talk about her parents. “I don’t pay you enough for that,” she...

Pregnant Doxology

Blair Hurley -

When I was pregnant, I was steadily nauseous for the first three months, and lay on the pilly corduroy couch of my apartment most...

Agape

Hunter Braithwaite -

Mark is on the living room floor and his wife Sheila, she’s walking all over him. It’s like he’s one of those sushi platters...

Elias

Rebekah Frumkin -

The old man’s house was at the end of the road that forked off the main road out of town. The old man was...