MORE WRITERS SHOULD JUST BE DOING THIS FOR FUN: An Interview with Tyler Dempsey
September 8, 2023
Everyone believes there’s something more out there. And if we were just braver, had more time/money/whatever, we’d Don Quixote it up.
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SWEETNESS by Tina Kimbrell
September 6, 2023
On the morning that she died, I don’t think I knew that it was the day that we would stop waiting. We were just going to her bedside, as we did. As we had done for days. Suspended in that grief fog, gritty and spinning.
SARAN WRAP MAGIC: An Interview with Amy Cipolla Barnes
September 1, 2023
Where neighbors handed warm zucchini bread over fences, a 10-year-old drove me around a farm in a rusty truck, and I most likely met a serial killer.
HOBBIES by Robbie Herbst
August 30, 2023
She’d say that it’s not enough for a man to create a life; he must sustain it. Protect it. Sufficiency means safety. It means contingencies. It means insurance.
IF SHE WERE AN ANIMAL by Cameron Darc
August 28, 2023
He fondles a piece of charcoal and looks at me before touching the paper. The line makes a limp imitation of a spine. A nose appears.
ELAINE SUN, KRAMER MOON, GEORGE RISING: An Interview with Donald Quist
August 25, 2023
I’m still thinking through and discovering all Seinfeld has, and will, teach me about creative writing, particularly poetic movement, and/or MacGuffins as a narrative technique.
COMPANY MAN by Jeff Karr
August 23, 2023
The lord’s light is a fathomless null. Sometimes you’re afforded a glimpse and it’s a tunnel on the other side of which you crawl on the accordioned car’s ceiling.
SMOKE AND FISH by Uyen P. Dang
August 21, 2023
At first everyone blamed the smoke on the war, then the steel plant, and, finally, the water. But Ong Hai says it’s not water but grief at the bottom of the sea.
X-R-A-Y SPECS: BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS
August 18, 2023
Like Terminators or cockroaches, dive bars will always rise again. They’re one of the last bastions of organic and spontaneous social connection.
AT THE VERY CENTER OF YOU IS NOTHING by Alice M.
August 16, 2023
The masks were thin, pliable. They attached to her skin, seamless. They emoted for her, always appropriate, guaranteed to fetch the reaction she wanted.