Fiction

Loving the Dog

Stephanie Devine -

A few days ago, my husband read an article about a dog’s birthday party. Now he wants to have a party for our dog,...

The Art of French Cooking

Kyle Lucia Wu -

My little sister is healthy all her life until she turns twenty-two, when she is diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and moves into my...

See You Later, Fry-O-Lator

Monica Drake -

This story is part of The Lineup: 25 Provocative Women Writers, out this October from Black Lawrence Press. The morning of my sixteenth birthday, I, Mademoiselle...

Apology

Cynthia Flood -

“Edith,” those four women said, “you’ve been inconsiderate.” Thoughtless, they continued. Unsympathetic. Less than kind. Etc. An intervention, no less. Over coffee and cookies, prepared by...

Kirsty, 22

Naben Ruthnum -

We made a fake Facebook account at an internet café, one of the last ones downtown, full of Korean gamers and a weird smell...

Destroying Pull

Gavin Tomson -

“Temporal horizon.” I overheard an Australian man use that expression today at a Best Buy in Montreal - where I bought a blank CD...

Walpurgisnacht

Alexandra Tanner -

“I’m so tired,” Kate says. “I feel like shit,” Kate says. “We should go out tonight,” Kate says. Next thing I know I’ve gulped down, like, four...

Shape of a sitting man

Kevin Hardcastle -

When Arthur leapt out from the black the eight men around the fire quit talking. One stood like he was pulled up by cables....

As If We’d Been There Before

Eleanor Kriseman -

Jazz and I started out that summer spending every day together. I first saw her earlier that year in the parking lot, unloading groceries...

Brewster’s Century What?

Frankie Barnet -

So, I was moving in with my parents. It was temporary. It had to be temporary. Dale made this clear. Dale being my stepfather. Temporary...