Fiction

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...

The Open Palm of Desire

Brian Gresko -

My son found a severed hand in the sandbox. Dug it up, along with half a lime green crayon and the nub of a...

Tell Me What I Can Do For You

Curtis LeBlanc -

On an evening in late May, Martin Bigras and his new friend Carl Barnet arrived at a train station in Munich, disembarked and went...

21 Things Nobody Tells You About Blood Sludge

Lisa Locascio Nighthawk -

HELLO, DOWNERS GROVE! All right, ladies! Woo! Are we having a good time? I can’t hear you, I’m sorry. ARE WE HAVING A GOOD TIME? Most...

Neutral Buoyancy

J. R. McConvey -

They always make it harder to achieve results. Kielbasa Joe paddles his noodle up the fourth lane in a painfully slow crawl, the fluorescent pool...

Ms. Kay

Sara Finnerty -

Amber lay with her back on the purple yoga mat, her legs pressed together at a perfect 90-degree angle. “Exhale,” the teacher said, “And...

Swanee

Sara Lippmann -

Sara Lippmann's debut collection of short fiction, Doll Palace, is now available from Dock Street Press. Billy Monroe was stuck in the plastic fun tunnel...

Certainty

Matthew Walsh -

“We want you to come around the corner of the car like you aren’t expecting us.” Melanie smiled. She used a lint roller on...

If Life Gave Me Lemons

Kerry Clare -

At the time, her life had been lacking in sure things, and so Lindsay took comfort in knowing where she stood with Aaron, even...