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THE TEACHER by Melissa Benton Barker

March 25, 2024

The teacher hated the children. Ashley with her electric fence and Michelle with her little doll and Daniel with his frog.

THE STUYVESANT BEE 221 by Mike Topp

March 24, 2024

MOMS FOR LIBERACE !! WOODY WOODPECKER !! YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, PIGS !!

X-R-A-Y Specs: THE PLUMBER (1979)

March 22, 2024

I don’t think Max’s colonization of the bathroom is an accident. It’s a place where we feel vulnerable, and many times we attach a lock to the door to prevent others from walking in unannounced.

Transmissions: Wake Island

March 20, 2024

What are your plans for the future? Death.

THE CABIN by Meg Favreau

March 18, 2024

But today there was a cabin. A small, rough thing. Caked in leaves. Inside, they found old cans and an old bed and an old table. Inside, they found a calendar stuck on July 1992.

THE STUYVESANT BEE 225 by Mike Topp

March 17, 2024

I found a wallet today that contained $200, some credit cards, and some family pictures—my family now.

WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO DO by John King

March 14, 2024

I’ve just vomited into my mother’s coffin. The pallbearers rush me out of the parlor. The funeral home director eyes me fiercely. He isn’t wrong.

OUT FROM UNDER THE BRIDGE: ON DAVE FITZGERALD by K Hank Jost

March 12, 2024

To refer back to Jeanette’s advice again for a second, it’s not just that no one will care if you don’t do it. In a lot of cases, it’s that no one will even know if you don’t do it. For me, ‘doing the thing’ has changed my life.

QUESTIONS FOR THE ALIEN WHO LISTENED TO THE VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD by John Waddy Bullion

March 11, 2024

In your mind, is there nothing better than coming home after a punishing day in the asteroid mines, firing up a space joint, and taking a blissful sound bath in the pure vibes pouring forth from your carefully curated LP collection?

THE STUYVESANT BEE 224 by Mike Topp

March 10, 2024

For decades The Stuyvesant Bee has been a password known only to the LITERARY ELITE, whispered at CIA-sponsored cocktail parties, discussed in zoom meetings hosted by Paris Review interns, loudly recited at salons & saloons around the reading world.