Short Story

Flaco’s North Wood Inlay

Rainer Diana Hamilton -

A self-portrait of Rembrandt, a hand-colored print of a courtesan as the immortal Tekkai, and a wooden meditation chair stood in the Central Park...

Individual Medley

Naomi Shuyama-Gómez -

1. Whenever I had to shut my eyes and swallow the carsickness along the winding rural roads, or accidentally banged my head against the greasy...

Who Would Even Want To Do That?

Rob Ehle -

In California was a squat little man, newly back from war, named Moller. His mother had moved to the old gold town of Oroville,...

The Racial Melancholic’s Guide to Zen

Ryan Lee Wong -

Download a meditation app on your phone. Your anxiety has gotten so bad that you lurch up in the middle of the night shuffling...

Antibachelorette

Ariel Chu -

The river is a monstrous thing, black and seething. You’ve never seen water move this way before. As though the waves were gliding off...

The Knife Mandate

Richard Chiem -

I am a gold medal hopeful, battle worn, battle angel. I am a calm nervous system. I am the man you thought you loved...

Year of the Rat

S.M. Sukardi -

There comes a time in a girl’s life when she will dance with her father. We know this because all the girls before us...

Amsterdam

William Pei Shih -

For the past two days, Mildred Wong hadn’t been sleeping well. She’d awoken that morning in Amsterdam, her body consumed—by aches, fever, an unfamiliar...

Small Green Shoots

Aarti Monteiro -

The girl’s smile was much less awkward in person than it had been in the photo. In real life the sides of her mouth...

The Hamptons

Marne Litfin -

Oh, I’m ready. A little afraid, sure, but who isn’t? I don’t expect it to hurt. I’ve been near the end three times before,...