Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Fiction

Songbun Song

Hyo washes his hands in hot water. He presses his nails into his cloth to remove each excess drop to ready his fingers for...

The Unknown Soldier

Molly Antopol's debut story collection, The UnAmericans, is now available from W.W. Norton.  Fridays were busy outside Alameda Point. Women shouldered past Alexi, coiffed and perfumed and in pumps...

The Somewhere Else

An excerpt from Victoria Hetherington's digital fiction project I Have To Tell You (0s&1s, 2014).  1. DAVE When I was a kid I hung around with our grubby,...

Reinventing the Wheel

My next-door neighbours are really bad at fucking. It’s painful; I can hear them every third or fourth night just sort of futilely scrambling around on...

Beauty Queens

Lisette can feel her little sister Vi watching her as the car speeds along. Vi is in the backseat and Lisette is up front...

Dear HauntedKnitz4U

If it weren’t for your socks, I wouldn’t be on this roof.  You have far and beyond the best online shop for haunted socks,...

Koreatown

1. The Koreatown mission started like any other sunny four o’clock in Las Vegas. Yes, the sky was clear, the traffic humming along Charleston, Martin...

Chicken Necks

It was Willy’s job to feed the big cats. Luray Zoo’s got a lazy Bengal tiger that was rejected by its mother, an ocelot...

Amerikana Dreaming

One day we were gypsies, and the next we were kings. We were vagrants and lust-givers, catatonic, exuberant, strung out, unhurried, and even optimistic....

To Choose a Horse

Pablo always took the stairs but we met in the elevator. I had seen him before. Down the hallway, or in the earlier part...