CLOSE ONE by Matt Barrett
He said he knew the best way to escape. He wouldn’t just sit back as the cops put handcuffs on their wrists.
THE ELIMINATION DIET by Alexandra Wuest
Her older sister Kathleen is on the clams casino diet. Her younger sister Nina is on the tap dance diet. Each sister thinks the others are crazy for eating the way they do and each sister says so.
DADS ON DECK by Garrett Stack
Cal gazes up in adoration, face illuminated in the glow of outdated technology, and tears stream down his face.
RAVI MANGLA on film with Rebecca Gransden
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
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
I'm more spiritual than religious...
CLUCK LIKE A CHICKEN by Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez
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
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
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
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.