Fiction

OUR LAND SAYS MY SISTER LOOKED PEACEFUL by Myles Zavelo

April 3, 2024

Our Land turns particularly bleak at night; bicycles are stolen and dumpsters are torched. In the morning, users who sleep rough light spoons and burn up powders in front of little kids going to school.

IN THE MICROPLASTICS by Caleb Cloaca

March 30, 2024

The world’s all burning. You might as well buy yourself a pretty little (not so little) mansion. You can too: make love in the microplastics.

TRAIL OF SMALL CLOWNS by Caleb Bethea

March 27, 2024

I heard my liver slapping onto the tile floor. My pancreas half falling out of me, hanging all the way down into the sink with my old skin.

THE TEACHER by Melissa Benton Barker

March 25, 2024

The teacher hated the children. Ashley with her electric fence and Michelle with her little doll and Daniel with his frog.

THE CABIN by Meg Favreau

March 18, 2024

But today there was a cabin. A small, rough thing. Caked in leaves. Inside, they found old cans and an old bed and an old table. Inside, they found a calendar stuck on July 1992.

WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO DO by John King

March 14, 2024

I’ve just vomited into my mother’s coffin. The pallbearers rush me out of the parlor. The funeral home director eyes me fiercely. He isn’t wrong.

QUESTIONS FOR THE ALIEN WHO LISTENED TO THE VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORD by John Waddy Bullion

March 11, 2024

In your mind, is there nothing better than coming home after a punishing day in the asteroid mines, firing up a space joint, and taking a blissful sound bath in the pure vibes pouring forth from your carefully curated LP collection?

I JUST WANT PALS TO JOSH AROUND WITH by Kevin Richard White

February 21, 2024

Maybe we discuss how soft our wives’ hands are, how they look in the shower, how they may or may not love us.

THE ENTIRE LAME HISTORY OF THE CHICAGO SHINERS by Sam Berman

February 14, 2024

God shares my taller daughter’s name now. Which is Hope. I say it five times when she covers the inbound. Hope. Hope. Hope. Hope. Hope.

SELENA GOMEZ WALKS INTO A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PORTAL AT THE REST STOP IN DUBLIN, GA by Stephen Meisel

February 7, 2024

And says a warrior’s prayer as the mahogany bear carvings come alive. She understands the will of the Valkyrie as the will of the H bomb.