Short Story

Bodies of Water

Rachel Calnek-Sugin -

The day we met, we died. I have to start there. Or Flora said she died, and I said, Me too. Pretty much whatever...

Private Viewing Mode

Nabeel Chollampat -

“I just think it’s best,” Alana said, convincingly, “if all companies retired their consumption of single-use plastics.”Damn. She got to that one first. She...

Artist Alley

Michael Magnes -

The convention center was full of the Sunday blues on the last day of Rose City Comic-Con. Saturday night bar-con engulfed comic industry professionals...

Friend Code

Sean James Fitzpatrick -

A bit ago I was reaching down the storm drain like a freak, checking over my shoulder but not because I was worried a...

Maybe You Were in the Plot

Charles Blackstone -

December 3, 1995 Even though she’d only been at college in Connecticut for a few months, Julianne could already tell which phone calls were ones...

Maggie in the Mills

David Moloney -

Erin only left for Indo-Burma two days ago, but it feels longer, and Maggie is fixated on counting the time until her return. Twelve...

Saving Princesses

Kyle Francis Williams -

My neighbor’s dog barks when left alone, and it is always alone. She’s a nurse or something, my neighbor. The bundle of blankets on...

Just You Wait

Zachary C. Solomon -

Other than the plainly ornamental column that rose out of the center of the living room, the apartment was ideal for their growing family....

Habitat

Frankie Barnet -

Our mother likes to fuck mayflies. She developed a taste for it early in life, along with the heartbreak that inevitably follows. This has...

The Stars Walk Backward

Michele Filgate -

Gigi stands on the peeling steps of her gray deck in Connecticut and stretches forward over her dull, worn wooden cane to prune a...