Short Story

Justin, in Three Parts

Craig Willse -

1. It all goes back to this party at Kevin’s. Kevin was short with dark pinprick eyes that made him look like a cartoon. We...

Maps

Vanessa Chan -

When you die, I become obsessed with recreating you. I walk endlessly through our town, to notable places in your life. I go to...

Leaving the Landfill

Jackson Saul -

Pretty soon, Petunia will have to cut everything that came before and pretend as if this were where life started, the time things began...

Hurricane Gothic

Blake Sanz -

The following is an excerpt from the short story collection The Boundaries of Their Dwelling by Blake Sanz. The Boundaries of Their Dwelling is available now from the...

Cowboys in Missouri

Kevin Clouther -

The mechanic took one look at the engine, diagnosed the problem immediately (and with not a little disdain), and charged us nothing. “It’s a rental,”...

Nothing Special

Sydney Rende -

I sent a message to a celebrity on the internet. It said, I think we’d make a good match. I added my phone number...

Kissing Frogs

Foster Dalmas -

Leonie was no longer surprised when frogs proposed to her. The first time happened when she was seven. Mama had sent her out to play...

The Two Brothers

Laura I. Miller -

Wolves are less brave than they seem. —Angela Carter I. Ruby inherited the dragon from her Uncle Pierce when he died. She’d seen the dragons advertised...

Solstice

Walker Rutter-Bowman -

A woman approached, pushing a stroller. I was on my way to teach my morning class. Without something as substantial as a stroller in...

Maps to Nowhere

Nara Vidal, translated from Portuguese by Emyr Humphreys -

How vast the human body, your human body, is. The nervous system sprawls like markings on a vast map of pleasure and affection. The things...