Fiction

Animals in the Garden

Rebecca Fisseha -

The house where I live is the last one on our street. There is a front garden of flowering plants surrounding the lawn, the...

Valencia

Mila Jaroniec -

Since moving to New York I’ve owned six copies of Valencia, but I keep losing them to girls. The first and most important came from...

Courtship in 2184

Rafal Redlinski -

Joan took special care with her scars that morning. She used the expensive glue and the smallest brush and worked so slowly that her...

Trinkets

Ian MacAllen -

I never suspected myself one of those people to marry because of an unexpected baby, but three days after Stefanie peed on a stick,...

The Program ™

Melissa Yancy -

Things had gone badly, and badly in ways she couldn’t have imagined, not for herself, not for anyone she knew. The story had been...

Vivisection

Marléne Zadig -

The first time I attended one of Salomé’s surgery salons, I recall I had a sunburn from lounging too long earlier that day in...

Gargoyle

Cole Nfonoyim Hara -

One summer you came to stay with us for good. Your mom had up and left and you’d shown up at Abuela’s door with...

Snap

Emi Benn -

At lunchtime, the fifth and sixth grade girls run around the grassy field. From a distance, it looks like they’re playing tag, pursuing and...

Creatures in the Woods

Anabel Graff -

The air is swimming with mosquitoes, hormones, pheromones, hope. You are listening to your section leader, Liddy, read the instructions for the big canoe trip....

Celestial Bodies

Annabel Graham -

The photographs could have been of anyone. They had been uploaded from a digital camera onto the shared desktop computer in the Soho apartment, left...