Short Story

Swimming Through Whales

Shannon Alberta -

I am not avoiding the mouse. I will deal with it—as soon as I’ve woken up, as soon as I’ve had my coffee. I use...

The Surrogate

Caille Millner -

Cecily is six months pregnant with someone else’s child when her husband tells her that he wants a baby of his own. It’s not...

The Return to Monsterland

Sequoia Nagamatsu -

This story will be included in the forthcoming collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). It originally appeared...

Honeymoon

Bryan Hurt -

The day before their honeymoon she got the flu. Then in the airplane she got an ear infection. In Paris the doctor gave her...

Bottom

Cecilia Corrigan -

It was going to be a beautiful night, the air was balmy and sweet. The day had been uncomfortably humid. Mia had decided to...

In the South the Sand Winds are Our Greatest Enemy

Rita Bullwinkel -

Gleb and Oleg were banished brothers. They lived together in a prison infirmary surrounded by snow. Gleb was a surgeon and Oleg a sculptor....

Pioneer Trek

Kate Finlinson -

In July of 1997, we were having a Pioneer Moment. In celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of our ancestors’ arrival in the Salt Lake...

Into the Valley

Ruth Galm -

Excerpted from Into the Valley, available August 4th from Soho Press. Galm launches Into the Valley at Books Inc. in San Francisco on August...

Fire With Legs

Colin Fleming -

It was very frustrating to have finally managed to scale one of the walls of the inside of the noise machine only to discover...

Murder Games

Caitlin Horrocks -

Ella’s backpack sagged with flashlight and string, fruit snacks and masking tape and two forks and a bike helmet. The best part of adventures...