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RAVI MANGLA on film with Rebecca Gransden

August 25, 2022

Video, broadly speaking, is the medium people interact with most on a daily basis, so I think contemporary fiction has some obligation to engage with it (if aiming to render the world as it exists).

BIG GULP by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos

August 24, 2022

You hook up with Danny in a boys’ room stall after rock band practice the day he tells you when you hold the mike close to your lips it’s like you’re going down on it.

DUCK POND 4 by Adam Soldofsky

August 23, 2022

I'm more spiritual than religious...

CLUCK LIKE A CHICKEN by Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez

August 22, 2022

If this wasn’t serious business, you’d laugh your butt off because it looks like the chicken is wearing lipstick and the shine on its feathers makes you think of gel on jet black hair.

AT THE WELL by Nathan Grover

August 19, 2022

Perhaps by now they weren’t the most well-adjusted people they’d ever been. Perhaps by now they’d become, even to themselves, a little strange.

SLINGER JESUS by J M F Casey

August 18, 2022

He held the baggy towards me, flexing its mouth, wafting the pungent vapours. It was barely a ‘teenth, not worth 30, but I bought it.

CIAO, TRIESTE by Christine Kwon

August 17, 2022

The screaming and kissing seem to come straight from the id, from the desire to suck out a man’s soul and leave him a desiccated shell.

LOVE IS A HOT STOVE YOUR HEART KEEPS TOUCHING by Jeanine Skowronski

August 15, 2022

And so, you are here, you are here, you are waiting, frost-bitten and sun-stroked; you are waiting for a warmth that you think, that you know, that you think that you know now will never come.

OMENS ASIDE, I KENNED IT WOULDN’T LAST by Gabriela Denise Frank

August 12, 2022

The chugging train slowed, then sighed to a halt over the England-Scotland border, the so-called station a mere strip of platform engulfed in endless verdant meadow dotted with clots of creamy sheep.

LAUGHING PRUDISHLY; A REVIEW OF MARSTON HEFNER’S “HIGH SCHOOL ROMANCE” by Evan Williams

August 11, 2022

For Hefner, the awkwardness is the point, and he wields its power well.