Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Fiction

The Surrogate

Cecily is six months pregnant with someone else’s child when her husband tells her that he wants a baby of his own. It’s not...

The Return to Monsterland

This story will be included in the forthcoming collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). It originally appeared...

Honeymoon

The day before their honeymoon she got the flu. Then in the airplane she got an ear infection. In Paris the doctor gave her...

Bottom

It was going to be a beautiful night, the air was balmy and sweet. The day had been uncomfortably humid. Mia had decided to...

In the South the Sand Winds are Our Greatest Enemy

Gleb and Oleg were banished brothers. They lived together in a prison infirmary surrounded by snow. Gleb was a surgeon and Oleg a sculptor....

Pioneer Trek

In July of 1997, we were having a Pioneer Moment. In celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of our ancestors’ arrival in the Salt Lake...

Into the Valley

Excerpted from Into the Valley, available August 4th from Soho Press. Galm launches Into the Valley at Books Inc. in San Francisco on August...

Fire With Legs

It was very frustrating to have finally managed to scale one of the walls of the inside of the noise machine only to discover...

Commitme| Co| Commitment

For example: Do you lik me? Check yes no * For example, afterwards, her brother used to write...

Murder Games

Ella’s backpack sagged with flashlight and string, fruit snacks and masking tape and two forks and a bike helmet. The best part of adventures...