Fiction

Small Dinosaur

Terese Svoboda -

How does she get into my kitchen at seven a.m., squeezing frosting on my boy's toast? In college she hardly ever ate, except...

That Won’t Be Necessary

Sara Schaff -

Sara Schaff's debut collection, Say Something Nice About Me, is available from Augury Books and can be ordered here Before the summer crew painted...

Just Visiting

Meredith Westgate -

By evening, a German man would swear he had seen the woman in orange leave, walking quickly towards the train station where he had...

Ice-Storm

Melissa Bull -

The power knocked out midway through my stupid all day-all night Thursday shift and it got really cold inside my little boutiquette. Something popped behind...

Food I Ate With Frank

Catherine Owen -

1. Fried kielbasa slathered with brie Frank’s mother never keeps such food in the fridge. You can tell by the way he hefts the sausage...

Jonestown, Japantown

Annie Dawid -

After reading the letter once, Truth called to her son, Cuffy, who was now six years old, in the next room. “Let’s take a...

Pull Me Under

Kelly Luce -

Excerpted from Kelly Luce’s novel Pull Me Under. Available now from FSG. Order here. The news of my father’s second and final death arrives by FedEx. I push...

Dev: A Tale of the Vietnam War

John Davidson -

Fort Dix was everything a modern Army post should be, self‑sufficient, self‑contained, a world unto itself beyond whose bounds a...

Conflict Zone

Leesa Dean -

Leesa Dean is a graduate of the University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA program and teaches English and Creative Writing for Selkirk College in...

Castaways and Worry Dolls

Jackson Bliss -

What the fuck was wrong with the goddamn speedometer? If there was one, simple thing Brianna really needed right now, it wasn’t better wheels,...