Fiction

What It Is and What It Is Called

Amy Gall -

“Are you attracted to your sister?” The Professor looks at me, her hands loosely clasped on the desk in front of her. She is...

Bargaining for Gabriel

Nyaboke Nduati -

Once upon a time Mokeira talked about motherhood as though she had a right to it. She sat at the marketplace with other women...

Malbec

Glen Pourciau -

I was staying in the spare bedroom of my parents' apartment in a colonial town in north central Mexico, enjoying their company and catching...

DeRosa

Sam Shelstad -

Ted Cohen (Widower), September 2003 For the...

Faking It

Meghan Bell -

The day before our plane caught fire, Karen Phillips brought up lesbians in the change room after our sixth and...

Mother Miri Full of Grace

Maggie Tokuda-Hall -

When Miri and Ben had sex, he filled her with a million babies, but then didn’t ask her to marry...

Slick Sided

Melissa Swantkowski -

Morgan saw her mother in the bedroom. “I’m a beast,” her mother said. “How am I ever supposed to take my clothes off again?...

Dealclosers

Michelle Sterling -

I found my first job in Montreal in the back pages of the English alternative weekly when I saw a telemarketing ad declaring, DEALCLOSERS...

Victoria

Jen Fawkes -

“This,” said Sid, holding Queen Victoria aloft, “is not your best work.” Darryl nodded. Sid wasn’t telling him anything he didn’t know. A blind man...

This is Conquest

Justin Lawrence Daugherty -

Out west the desert birds flew without need of the ground. Out west mountains rose and brought men closer to their gods than they...