Fiction

The Last Time We Fucked

Jowita Bydlowska -

“It looks like a clinic,” my ex-husband says. “I like it.” “You might want to get some rugs. I have a rug in the basement. It’s...

Small Town, Big City

Patrick Bella Gone -

WINTER The plastic couple had fallen on the ground, one woman and one man in their Sunday best next to the park bench,...

Sleepwalker

Anne-Marie Kinney -

His girlfriend had been a sleepwalker when he met her. She’d warned him after they’d been on a few dates, when he asked her back...

Four Love Stories

Rebecca Fishow -

I. The Trouble With Language Last night I went to bed thinking that old, endless, quiet thought: I don’t want to ever die. Then, in the...

Shipwrecks

Matthew Fogarty -

1. The winter I was twelve, my father found work as a surveyor and we moved north to the Upper Peninsula, to Sault Ste. Marie....

What Happened

Sarah Bridgins -

I was thirteen when my grandmother told me about my mom’s rape. We were sitting at the dining room table at my grandmother’s house playing...

Please Hold

Peter Kispert -

The photo hangs crooked. Like this. I can barely hear Sal call “Action!” over the wind, brown leaves turning up and scattering downhill. It is the...

Jun and the Two Sisters: A Fox Story

Kimberly Wang -

It was late summer, but the clouds refused to part for the sun. The trees clasped their branches overhead, determined to keep Jun in the...

Zero Hour

Steph Wong Ken -

A transfer student from another Catholic high school, Rose McCraig liked to talk about the sickly saints, the holy anorexics who starved themselves for God. “St. Maria...

Rolesville

Michelle Hart -

Kate was a Specialist in the Army, which was perfect for her, since Specialists don’t really specialize in anything. Even as a kid, Kate...