Short Story

Audition

Yasmin Adele Majeed -

My mother always claims my first memory of her is a false one, but I have never believed her. The memory stuck, and it...

Better Beauty

Lucy Faye Rosenthal -

It was always the heaviest in the mornings. By “mornings,” I mean more like eleven-thirty, if I’m being honest, and by “it” I mean,...

Hey, Cam Club

Stephanie Isan -

It's November and I'm in the VIP line to a nightclub on Valencia. The scallops of my black club dress hang only a little...

Spa Day

Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo -

My father dropped us off. People moved around us in expensive sneakers with bubbly soles of fancy foam. We walked down a corridor that...

All the Weddings We Have Ever Been To

Seema Yasmin -

At Salma’s wedding you squeezed the syrup out of the sweet yellow rice, picked swollen sultanas from among the strands of saffron and shredded...

Conviction

Jordan Alam -

Laila blames her vanishing libido on moving into Kasim’s apartment. She tries to remember the last time they had sex and feels guilty when...

Girls’ Church

Amara Okolo -

Nothing the eye can see will make it bleed. -Igbo Proverb The other nurses hated me. I wanted to believe it was not malicious but stemmed...

Catch and Release

Amy X. Wang -

1. Maisie’s on the verge of something spectacular. This, we know—and not because the nanosecond upticks of her gait, pulse, blinks, aerobic functions, shuddering fast-twitch...

Save the Cat

Drew Nelles -

This summer, everyone is drinking Aperol spritzes, and Simon orders one now. I would love an Aperol spritz, he says to the waitress, emphasizing...

Local Distance

Claire Oleson -

A leucistic moose, a pearled animal with starch-white fur and black eyes, dies to a kia soul going 79 on an upstate rural road....