Short Story

Slumber Party

Donna Miscolta -

Angie Rubio shrank at the snickering of classmates, cringed at the embarrassed looks on her behalf. She tucked the newspaper clipping inside her notebook...

Sam Tippy

Danielle Monique -

While her client sucked a thumb, Willa wove a criss-cross pattern of cornrows onto her young cousin’s head. She was improving. The braids looked...

Bitterroot

Michael R. Schrimper -

The wilderness, in western Montana. Miles and miles of pines. Night-time. A stony beach. A river. On the beach, a fire, with bright orange...

The Triceratops

John Jodzio -

The same week my father gave my mother a heart attack, Jerry Dentro and I made out behind a triceratops at the Beltsville Area...

Happy Jack

Shelby Kinney-Lang -

When it was too much to be alone, and when dreams of my father stormed my mind; when I felt the hot guilt of...

Sissy

Rebekah Morgan -

Sissy sits on the wooden porch swing overlooking our whole and entire everything. Sits eating paw paws with her eyes shut tight and knuckles...

Family: Orchid

K-Ming Chang -

All the women in my family are Orchids. Big Orchid, Baby Orchid, Medium Orchid, Fat Orchid, Bald Orchid, Belly Orchid, Honey Orchid, Hurt Orchid:...

The Whipping

Christine Kwon -

Though Connie had been living in Budapest for two years now, she had not been to all the baths. She alternated between three that...

Mote

Shannon Sanders -

I They would only be in the house on Ashburn Street for six or nine months, a year at absolute most, and so although Merritt...

The Wolf

Carter Sickels -

He didn’t just wake up one day and turn into one. This had been developing for years, but nobody, especially his parents, wanted to...