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GETTING QUIET by Emily Marie Seibert

July 19, 2023

The parrot needed quietude and a sense of security in order to come down. My neighbors must’ve pegged me as mad.

BEAR WITH A CHAINSAW by Joe Aguilar

July 17, 2023

Oh, the bear came with the house, I lied. The Lord hates a lying tongue, the pastor said.

X-R-A-Y SPECS: ZARDOZ (1974)

July 14, 2023

I knew I was going to love it when the head started to vomit guns. The tone felt like a Monty Python film. Is that a common comparison?

SUPER BLACK by Sasha Brown

July 12, 2023

“It’s not that it disappears,” he said. “It’s just deep. It’s like a cliff. It goes all the way down. But it’s something new, Rico.”

JUST THE EDGES by Molly Wadzeck Kraus

July 10, 2023

Rolling down the window, I decipher through the breeze, Listen, I think we need to stop this. Hours ago, you had my breasts in your hands. OK, whatever, it’s fine, I said.

I WOULD LIKE TO STARTLE THE READER: An Interview with Mike Topp

July 7, 2023

I was reading my bad poems and in between bad poems I was telling some stories and Steve said I should quit writing poems and instead tell funny stories. So I followed his advice.

UBËR by Mitch Russell

July 3, 2023

People—and I mean even absolute strangers—they’ll just talk and talk and talk and they expect you to listen to their whole life story. Have you ever experienced this? Do you know what I mean?

OUR MONSTROUSNESS AS A TEMPLATE: An Interview with B.R. Yeager

June 30, 2023

At my most pessimistic I’ve worried that this collection is akin to charging people to watch me at the gym; when I’m more optimistic, it feels like I’m just flexing in different genres.

CRYING IN THE SEX SHOP by LHC

June 28, 2023

The thing about being in a sex shop is that you’re trying to signal with your body language *I feel cool and normal about sex.*

THE GOLD—OR SILVER—RUSH by Z.H. Gill

June 26, 2023

nevertheless i have grown tired of it already, as anyone in my situation would. anyway, i am stuck. hand looks bad.