Short Story

Malbec

Glen Pourciau -

I was staying in the spare bedroom of my parents' apartment in a colonial town in north central Mexico, enjoying their company and catching...

DeRosa

Sam Shelstad -

Ted Cohen (Widower), September 2003 For the...

Faking It

Meghan Bell -

The day before our plane caught fire, Karen Phillips brought up lesbians in the change room after our sixth and...

Mother Miri Full of Grace

Maggie Tokuda-Hall -

When Miri and Ben had sex, he filled her with a million babies, but then didn’t ask her to marry...

Slick Sided

Melissa Swantkowski -

Morgan saw her mother in the bedroom. “I’m a beast,” her mother said. “How am I ever supposed to take my clothes off again?...

Dealclosers

Michelle Sterling -

I found my first job in Montreal in the back pages of the English alternative weekly when I saw a telemarketing ad declaring, DEALCLOSERS...

Victoria

Jen Fawkes -

“This,” said Sid, holding Queen Victoria aloft, “is not your best work.” Darryl nodded. Sid wasn’t telling him anything he didn’t know. A blind man...

This is Conquest

Justin Lawrence Daugherty -

Out west the desert birds flew without need of the ground. Out west mountains rose and brought men closer to their gods than they...

All That We Never Were

Alexis Landau -

My shins are encased in flesh-toned pantyhose. The wrong choice, clearly, as the bare legs of all the other women flash brazenly underneath cocktail dresses....

Catch and Release

Helen Polychronakos -

Sam cursed at the ringing telephone. Minutes from her deadline, she was still fiddling with footage from the Minister of...