Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Fiction

This is Fine

Nothing’s where it’s supposed to be these days and it’s pissing Mae off. She, for example, isn’t warm in bed beside the woman she...

Bath Salts: an excerpt

I wasn’t a bad girl. None of it had been my idea. Under the gazebo in the ...

Ice for Martians

In Peru, the word “marciano” refers both to Martians and to a...

The Cure For Crying

It took three days for the doctors to be certain, but the tear duct removal surgery was...

Studying the Conversation

"I search your profile for a translation, I study the conversation like a map." — 'Overlap,' Ani DiFranco "You do exactly what your father does,"...

Clean

When Sami was almost a teenager a salesman came knocking on their door. She spied him trudging...

Hitchhiker

Jason’s high school sweetheart Gwen died in an accident just before their graduation, and she has not...

The Standard Model

We were descending through the strata of clouds that hovered above the Cartesian plots of northern Ohio. I was watching the approach, outside the...