Fiction

Duncan Birmingham -

My jokes fall flat. I’m flailing in the room and have been for weeks, maybe months. My one-liners are stepped on. My blows don’t land and...

Adam Dickinson -

Methylophilaceae Amber shared a wing. It was in her mouth. She had killed a bird and laid part of it on our...

Lisa Taddeo -

At Milton Academy, this shit-ass boarding school I went to up in Milton, there was a kid named Paul Mackie. Richard and my mom...

Courtney Sender -

I am lying on a pillow on the bathroom floor, head pounding, as comfortable as I’m going to get, back against the nice cool porcelain,...

Chelsea Bieker -

1 The summer runs through us. My cousin Lyle, a few years older. Me, about to enter high school. We go to the shed when...

Hunter Gagnon -

-he in the booth sits with his apple-round back hunched over the booklet – he is studying up – to impress...

Marcy Dermansky -

Rachel came home for her summer break with a dog, a standard poodle. I had just put down my dog. She was sixteen, my sweet...

Marcelle Heath -

We were at the ferry terminal when the explosion went off. My spouse and I were on an anniversary trip to explore the San Juan...

Rebecca McKanna -

There was a little memorial on the side of Highway 67, right past the S&W Manufacturing Plant, with a knee-high white wooden cross in...

Brandon Taylor -

Before Lionel was an exam proctor, he had been a math major on the cusp of graduating with honors. Then something had gone wrong...