Short Story

Kayla Jean Murphy -

You can make your own glass cleaner. Most people know this, maybe, but I didn’t until a few months ago. There are a variety...

Brittany Newell -

"Love Hurts" by Brittany Newell was selected by the editors at Joyland magazine as a finalist in the 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. It was both...

Mariah Kreutter -

The first time I went to the clinic it was dark out. The first time I went to the clinic my sister thought I was...

Felix Lecocq -

The miracles are brought to the zoo in three black crates held aloft by three forklifts. The crates are settled on a patch of...

Callum Angus -

The first injection I ever did was in a sheep’s rump. A friend of my mother’s had a flock whose wool she sheared and...

Jiaqi Kang -

"The Trip” by Jiaqi Kang was selected by the editors at Joyland magazine as a finalist in the 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. “ it feels...

Li Sian Goh -

"A Forest Fire" by Li Sian Goh was selected by the editors at Joyland magazine as a finalist in the 2022 Open Border Fiction...

Karen Gu -

“Polysomnography” was selected by Alexandra Kleeman as the runner-up of the 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a...

Amy Zhang -

"Slow Clap" was selected by Alexandra Kleeman as the winner of the 2022 Open Border Fiction Prize. If you went macro, like way macro,...

Claudia Ross -

There were four tall men sent to complete the reappraisal. One of them, Devin, was the lawyer—we’d met before, five years ago, at the...