THE LIST by Annie Delmedico
June 5, 2023
In movies, the end of the world makes everyone care about the right things, right when the right things are about to be gone. Not me. I want my money.
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DOING VERY WELL! by Tippy Rex
May 31, 2023
It was cold on the floor, I confess, but I thought it was OK. Since he left, I wake up every morning and marvel at all the me-warmed space on the mattress.
GRAPE, APRICOT, BOTTLE CAP, BONE by Jennifer Murvin
May 29, 2023
Susan who choked to death loved the husband, loved his neighborliness. She loved him from her driveway and windows, front and back yards, day and night dreams.
MAY 24 by Parker Young
May 24, 2023
In order to write, I needed the writing process to disappear. But without the writing process, obviously I wouldn’t be a writer.
CAN’T YOU SEE YOU’RE THE HERO HERE? by Jeffrey Hermann
May 22, 2023
My presentation at the co-working space was a smash, meaning afterward people smashed the windows with rocks.
WEIRD ENOUGH TO BE DANGEROUS by MJ McGinn
May 17, 2023
My 7th grade English teacher was just three toddlers stacked on top of each other. The middle toddler googled every question we asked on an iPhone. You could see it through his shirt, star-bright.
LOVE LETTER by Nick Plett
May 15, 2023
The world felt like something awful impending. June gloom had set in early; Mercury was back in retrograde. Everyone was jittery, uncertain, a little gun shy.
RAINBOWS by Tim Frank
May 10, 2023
A rainbow is feeling down, suicidal even. It takes some pills and a bottle of gin to a park, ready to end it all.
NUMBER 30 by Jonah Sheen Tan
May 8, 2023
I studied the rustle of the stately rain tree when I couldn’t see the blackboard and knew Pollock’s Number 30 before I ever experienced autumn.
A PORTRAIT OF JOHN WAYNE’S COLLARBONE, SELMA BRAUN, 1992 by Will VanDenBerg
May 3, 2023
It’s 5:34 am and John Wayne is singing to his horse. The shoot is behind schedule; they’ve gone all night. Wayne’s singing voice will be dubbed over.