Fiction

Difficult People

Catriona Wright -

These talks are mandatory, aimed at increasing our productivity. The week prior I’d received an email from the organizer, Owen Peck. He promised “tactics...

New Delta Future

Kyle Coma-Thompson -

The return to Moon Lake had been a quiet one—a drive through downtown Helena, depressing, most of the storefronts abandoned, the sidewalks cut apart...

The Only Tricks We Know

Emily X.R. Pan -

The day Eugene told me his secret he gave me a bouquet of lilies. Ice clung to the petals like fuzz. Sorry about the frost,...

Recipe for Marble Cake

Hallie Elizabeth Newton -

I was in Texas one summer and found myself sneaking into a famous designer’s backyard with a bisexual engineer and a carpenter who used...

Goldie

Yvonne Zima -

Kent asks, “Pearl, is it?” He sweeps my bangs aside, undressing my face because every bloated and balding forty-year-old at the Chateau Marmont thinks he...

The New Inner Peace

Logan Scherer -

Everywhere I went, people did things for the right reasons. They helped others. They made friends. They avoided conflict. The world was full of...

Becoming an Outdoorswoman

Kristin Griffin -

Kathryn filled her backpack with the essentials: a few t-shirts and pairs of underwear, climbing shorts that didn’t get in the way, her shoes...

The Girl

Kait Heacock -

Kait Heacock's debut collection, Siblings and Other Disapointments, will be available October 11 from Ooligan Press. It launches at Powell's Books on October 19....

First Women’s Battalion of Death

Matthew Rader -

Catherine’s throat was soft and open to the orange light of the salon. Josie held the back of Catherine’s head in one hand, moving...

The History of Hanging Out

Kevin Mandel -

Once on a bright spring morning in a time much like now but also different there was a young Craigy in a room full...