Short Story

Destroying Pull

Gavin Tomson -

“Temporal horizon.” I overheard an Australian man use that expression today at a Best Buy in Montreal - where I bought a blank CD...

Walpurgisnacht

Alexandra Tanner -

“I’m so tired,” Kate says. “I feel like shit,” Kate says. “We should go out tonight,” Kate says. Next thing I know I’ve gulped down, like, four...

Shape of a sitting man

Kevin Hardcastle -

When Arthur leapt out from the black the eight men around the fire quit talking. One stood like he was pulled up by cables....

As If We’d Been There Before

Eleanor Kriseman -

Jazz and I started out that summer spending every day together. I first saw her earlier that year in the parking lot, unloading groceries...

Brewster’s Century What?

Frankie Barnet -

So, I was moving in with my parents. It was temporary. It had to be temporary. Dale made this clear. Dale being my stepfather. Temporary...

The Open Palm of Desire

Brian Gresko -

My son found a severed hand in the sandbox. Dug it up, along with half a lime green crayon and the nub of a...

Tell Me What I Can Do For You

Curtis LeBlanc -

On an evening in late May, Martin Bigras and his new friend Carl Barnet arrived at a train station in Munich, disembarked and went...

21 Things Nobody Tells You About Blood Sludge

Lisa Locascio Nighthawk -

HELLO, DOWNERS GROVE! All right, ladies! Woo! Are we having a good time? I can’t hear you, I’m sorry. ARE WE HAVING A GOOD TIME? Most...

Neutral Buoyancy

J. R. McConvey -

They always make it harder to achieve results. Kielbasa Joe paddles his noodle up the fourth lane in a painfully slow crawl, the fluorescent pool...

Swanee

Sara Lippmann -

Sara Lippmann's debut collection of short fiction, Doll Palace, is now available from Dock Street Press. Billy Monroe was stuck in the plastic fun tunnel...