Fiction

Parts of Us

Emory Harkins -

We watch men in sweaters shoot guns. They’re in their sixties, lined up hip to hip, crotches of pleated slacks pressed firm to the firing...

Care

Tim Raymond -

Mom told me before she died to go to Jake’s house if I ever got into trouble. So, that’s where I’m going. I’m not...

Adelphophagy

Delynn S. Willis -

On her and her sister’s thirteenth birthday, Alison locked herself in the bathroom and gave herself bangs. An hour later, her twin, Amber, sat...

Parched

Nicole Haroutunian -

We went to a desert town once. Stepping out of the car, though, I felt underwater—breathless and panicked. I hadn’t known a place...

T-Mobile

Elizabeth Ellen -

Two days earlier I’d texted Saul about his birthday. It was the end of November. He was turning eighteen. “aww, u remembered,” he said. I didn’t...

I Can’t Hear You

Kristen Falso-Capaldi -

“I want to leave you,” I say against the grinding of machinery and whoosh of air that accompanies the passing subway train. He doesn’t...

The End Is The Beginning

Wendy C. Ortiz -

The small round kitchen table was the desert and their hands were still upon it. Marge looked at her daughter’s eyes, the blue eyes she’d...

The Blood-Sex Iconostasis

Jasper Nighthawk -

Night falls over town. The fog doesn’t recede. Sodium lights flicker to life. Some hold steady; others strobe on and off in lugubrious, neurotic cycles....

Let Me Take You to Olive Garden

Simon Jacobs -

I. The year is 2004. I just got my ears pierced! Reese is wearing eight million bracelets and boots that come up past her knees,...

Mission

Caitlin Mullen -

There is an app that shows you where the Appolina is, how fast it is going, what the temperature is outside the pressurized doors, how...