Short Story

King Pleasure

Tomas Moniz -

It starts with my morning routine. I shave and trim my mustache and eyebrows. I pat my belly and look at it from both...

Beata Beatrix

Virginia Konchan -

The first time she turned a trick she was 15. She was living with a friend, Ashley, whose mother’s boyfriend molested her. She made...

An Exercise in Etiquette

Rebecca Fishow -

Everything that summer felt like an exercise in etiquette. The publisher of the Maple Leaf Press, the meager community newspaper that operated out of...

Shelter

Nata Belza -

On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, our babysitter arrived at our front door and announced that her apartment building was infested with bedbugs....

Bleach

Tara-Michelle Ziniuk -

Lucy hoped to never have to see the suburb she grew up in again and certainly isn’t enjoying her stay. Cars full of teenagers...

Florida

Rachel Lyon -

The summer between Jack Booth Jr.’s sophomore and junior year of high school, his mother left him and his dad...

Deimos and Phobos

Fortunato Salazar -

My mother is getting riled up and people are starting to notice. We’re in line at the Pink’s on La Brea, same as every...

The Crooked Heart of Mercy

Billie Livingston -

We're pleased to present an excerpt of Billie Livingston's most recent novel The Crooked Heart of Mercy, a brave, funny and heartbreaking novel about...

Tahoe

Kate Folk -

We’d been warned not to ride the ATVs straight up the hill, but we did, and one of us, I think it was Joel,...

The Outpatient

Philip Brunst -

“With my daughter,” Genevive said to Mercedes, “all I had to do was ask myself, ‘If I don’t, who will?’ You see, even as...