Fiction
THE PENNY IN THE WELL by Henry Elizabeth Christopher
We had sex, he took my blood. Positive ions, positive feedback loops. The cycle perpetuates itself.
November 25, 2022
Creative Nonfiction
ALL THE BEES IN CALIFORNIA ARE DEAD by Piper Gourley
I’m in California now, where bees die in the light. Where everybody dies first, then lives forever.
November 23, 2022
Fiction
MY STICKY-FINGERED GIRLS by Lynn Mundell
I look at the baby doll abandoned on the floor next to its ripped box, its unblinking blue eyes staring back at me. One of its fat cloth legs has been ripped off in the fight.
November 21, 2022
Fiction
A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR by Robert Long Foreman
Tamberlyn fell on the pavement, hard. Her body slapped against it. It sounded like someone dropped a lot of meat.
November 18, 2022
Interviews & Reviews
CALVIN WESTRA’S “DONALD GOINES” REVIEWED by Conor Hultman
What Westra does is this brilliant magic trick: he takes these simple sentences, with their insouciant humor, and stacks them like bricks.
November 17, 2022
Fiction
HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE by Claudia Schatz
The window over the bathroom sink, up high and pointing out, the only window in the whole house where all you see is sky.
November 16, 2022
Fiction
THE TWO OF THEM by Teddy Burnette
Catastrophe, he thinks. Couldn’t have gone worse.
November 14, 2022
