Short Story

Emily Chew -

Once, at age nineteen, she’d tried changing her first name to Lexie, which didn’t take and, a decade later, still made her feel ineffective...

Maddie Crum -

Marlon — who had given her that name? She didn’t like to talk about her parents. “I don’t pay you enough for that,” she...

Blair Hurley -

When I was pregnant, I was steadily nauseous for the first three months, and lay on the pilly corduroy couch of my apartment most...

Hunter Braithwaite -

Mark is on the living room floor and his wife Sheila, she’s walking all over him. It’s like he’s one of those sushi platters...

Rebekah Frumkin -

The old man’s house was at the end of the road that forked off the main road out of town. The old man was...

Elaine H. Kim -

“Our fiftieth anniversary is coming up,” Gene’s mother said to him as he jostled the mouse to bring her computer back to bright. One...

Lindsay Hunter -

It was a Camry. Lipstick red. Lacquered shine. They were in an old building in the part of town where all the warehouses were, lights...

Rion Amilcar Scott -

Dearest Slumlord, The ceiling in the kitchen cracked and split, and from the black abyss in between the clouds of plaster dived a team of...

Yvonne Yevan Yu -

“Who is the best English writer in the world, past and or present?” She'd never seen him before. There was no opening nicety, he'd just...

Benjamin Woodard -

At the end of class one September afternoon, the professor watches as the unfamiliar student slinks from the room amid the usual hurricane of...