Fiction

Coyote in the Blood

Seth Fischer -

When we pulled into Grandma’s driveway in our rental Kia, she was sunbathing in a black bikini, stock-still in one of those sticky white slatted plastic...

Complex 2675: Issue One

Francine Cunningham -

Mary dreamed she died. She woke drenched in sweat. Her breath slipping in and out. And she knew something was different. She swung her feet over...

Catherine Graham's debut novel Quarry (Two Wolves Press) launches June 1, 2017. This excerpt from Quarry was published in Joyland in 2014. Set in southern Ontario during the 1980’s, acclaimed poet Catherine...

The Dog Sitter

Kirsten Kearse -

The truth is not the story she will tell him, she realizes as she stands in the street, her right arm stretched out behind her...

MEANWHILE

Sasha Fletcher -

Catherine comes home to her parents asking ‘How was school today?’ and Catherine she says ‘Today we discussed bears.’ ‘Bears?’ says her parents. ‘Bears’ says Catherine. ‘Why in...

If You, Too, Know the Words to “Super Bass”

Shannon McLeod -

The journalist, Rikesh, sat me beside my living room window. He said the lighting was perfect. I imagined the sunlight casting shadows along my...

Absentees

Kenny Kelly -

Already, the drunk optimism of December is gone. The wind sighs as if to say, I’ve already been as good as I’ll ever be. This...

Carriers

Derek Mascarenhas -

“Look at that one, he's got a big butt,” said my sister. “Ants don't have butts, Ally. It's called an abdomen.” “How can they not have...

Lucky Frank

Jenny Xie -

My parents, who had all day nursed an injured silence between them, united to teach me a lesson. I had lost my miniature koala bear,...

Kindling

Kerry Cullen -

I am collecting mothers. Mothers with loose blonde hair and glossy mouths, mothers with dark bobs and plum lipstick and freckles scattered across pale faces, mothers...