PONT-SAINT-ESPRIT 1951 by Phoebe Billups
November 28, 2022
The man clutches at his stomach as the attendants wrestle him into a straitjacket. By the time they manage to sedate him, the waiting room brims with new patients.
Fiction
THE PENNY IN THE WELL by Henry Elizabeth Christopher
November 25, 2022
We had sex, he took my blood. Positive ions, positive feedback loops. The cycle perpetuates itself.
MY STICKY-FINGERED GIRLS by Lynn Mundell
November 21, 2022
I look at the baby doll abandoned on the floor next to its ripped box, its unblinking blue eyes staring back at me. One of its fat cloth legs has been ripped off in the fight.
A NIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR by Robert Long Foreman
November 18, 2022
Tamberlyn fell on the pavement, hard. Her body slapped against it. It sounded like someone dropped a lot of meat.
HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE by Claudia Schatz
November 16, 2022
The window over the bathroom sink, up high and pointing out, the only window in the whole house where all you see is sky.
THE TWO OF THEM by Teddy Burnette
November 14, 2022
Catastrophe, he thinks. Couldn’t have gone worse.
MAGICIANS by Scott Mashlan
November 11, 2022
On my way out of the closet I noticed a trunk at the edge of the bed… An antique padlock hooked through the clasp, but it was unlatched, so I slid it out and opened the trunk.
THE NINE O’GLOCK SHUFFLE by Lindsey Pharr
November 9, 2022
Your eyes follow their tiny finger and, sure enough, there’s a nine-millimeter handgun lying in the middle of your neighborhood street at eight in the morning on Fat Tuesday.
MY PARENTS DO NOT MEET by Liwen Xu
November 7, 2022
Once my father finishes and leaves, my mother leans back into her chair, rests her eyes on the clock above us, and begins to recall the lovers of her past.
COUPLED PENDULA by Krista Jahnke
November 4, 2022
She hits the button to go live and slowly eats something. It could be anything: an apple, a banana, a small granola bar. Comments fly in, encouraging her.