Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Fiction

The Catullus Chainsaw Massacre

Humans don’t have one pose, one image or one reflection. They can bend and crystallize, endure, fossilize and decay. They can prune, spoil, initiate...

Similar Bodies

Family Portrait—1993 The large red bow on the collar of my dress nearly covered my mouth. If it hadn’t, my lips would have been blurred...

The Pelican

“Now notice, Maddie, the subtle ways they compete, even when there are no females around.” My sister hands me the binoculars and takes a...

Straight Up Now Tell Me

I was halfway through my third-grade exposé on the vulcanized civilization of Pompeii when the principal irrupted into the classroom with the new boy....

Tourists

We’d been traveling so long that we lost track of which country we were in. It didn’t scare me at first. My husband and...

Rent

Not long after we placed an ad for a new roommate, a wolf moved into our...

The Party

Rion Amilcar Scott's debut collection, Insurrections, is now available from University Press of Kentucky. Order here. "The Party" was first published on Joyland in winter...

Uncle Membrance Enunciates a Facelift

Memphis rode in the pickup bed with all the killed. In this latitude of Indiana, the hills blasted out for state routes, the embankments...

L.O.R.

Nina and Michelle are missing from the morning meeting. They’re usually in the back corner, angling their lips toward a window cracked just enough...

The Independence Shipping Company

From the collection Transitory, out now from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Buy it here. -1- Another long day's trawling. I am thankful for the ship. Thankful for...