BURRITO by Nathaniel Duggan
July 4, 2022
I decided to order the burrito. I pronounced “burrito” wrong. The word fell from me, flabbergasting and impossible.
Flash
MONSTER MONSTER MONSTER by Leigh Chadwick
July 2, 2022
What your therapist doesn’t realize, you want to tell him, is that any length of loneliness is too long.
WASTE NOT WANT NOT by Steve Anwyll
July 1, 2022
A gust of wind blows me forward. The storm follows me in through the door. The snow swirls at my feet. I laugh like a madman as I slip on the slick tiles.
COUNTDOWN TO MOONLIT ROSES by Ange Yeung
June 29, 2022
I am lost in a sky of turbulence and haze—and to be lost is to never be home. Today is the first day of the year; it is also the first year you are not around.
THE KEYS TO IGNITION by G. R. Bilodeau
June 27, 2022
I gripped a dirty pint. Sometimes I hold a glass and feel the urge to grip it till it breaks. This was one of those times.
THE SIXTH PSYCHIATRIST by Richard Goodwin
June 24, 2022
The sixth psychiatrist was a young guy with tattoos and piercings and scruffy hair dyed the color of an Irish setter.
ULTRAVIOLET by Derek Fisher
June 22, 2022
I have used meter-long glass tubes to settle debts twice both times swiped from the quote unquote office both times drew blood one time got my money back
PARTY AT MUM’S HOUSE by Rupert Taylor
June 20, 2022
Some girl chugged a flask of vodka, passed out, and puked up what looked like spaghetti bolognese.
A GOLFER’S PRIDE by Calvin Atwood
June 17, 2022
During our very first conversation, Erik told me that he liked his blow jobs fast, and he once fucked a hooker in a Detroit airport bathroom.
HOW TO TELL A LOVE STORY by Wendy BooydeGraaff
June 15, 2022
These two are not young, not rom-com blow-dried and fresh. One of them has an eye with a filmy sheath over the iris, and the eye also wanders, preventing the long lovers’ gaze.