Fiction

CAN’T YOU SEE YOU’RE THE HERO HERE? by Jeffrey Hermann

May 22, 2023

My presentation at the co-working space was a smash, meaning afterward people smashed the windows with rocks.

WEIRD ENOUGH TO BE DANGEROUS by MJ McGinn

May 17, 2023

My 7th grade English teacher was just three toddlers stacked on top of each other. The middle toddler googled every question we asked on an iPhone. You could see it through his shirt, star-bright.

LOVE LETTER by Nick Plett

May 15, 2023

The world felt like something awful impending. June gloom had set in early; Mercury was back in retrograde. Everyone was jittery, uncertain, a little gun shy.

RAINBOWS by Tim Frank

May 10, 2023

A rainbow is feeling down, suicidal even. It takes some pills and a bottle of gin to a park, ready to end it all.

A PORTRAIT OF JOHN WAYNE’S COLLARBONE, SELMA BRAUN, 1992 by Will VanDenBerg

May 3, 2023

It's 5:34 am and John Wayne is singing to his horse. The shoot is behind schedule; they've gone all night. Wayne's singing voice will be dubbed over.

ANCHORAGE by Marc Tweed

May 1, 2023

That’s the Way of the Boss. That’s the Way of the Boss! Well, fuck.

OUR STORY by Rhea Ramakrishnan

April 26, 2023

You can tell yourself anything you want about yourself, even if it’s not true yet, and eventually it will be. Maybe.

DOOMSDAY APOCALYPSE MELANCHOLIA BLUES by Nathaniel Duggan

April 24, 2023

It was an easy thing, that winter, to realize that you were not, in fact, you—rather you were the untitled, draft email of yourself, addressed to no one.

RECENTISH by Spencer Thomas Campbell

April 17, 2023

But the product of this was both gushy and vain. Embarrassing. It was easy to read his real interest, which was carnal, puckered.

THE FAST-FOOD REBELLION and THE LARPER by Will Musgrove

April 12, 2023

On break, he spoke to us through the order box. The sun warming our necks, we tossed French fries to seagulls and smelled the electric static on his breath.