PORCELAIN by Nicholas Claro
September 27, 2023
The couch is more of a loveseat. It hardly seats the two of us. On it is the pillow and blanket I’ve been using. This is the longest conversation we’ve had in over a week.
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HOBBIES by Robbie Herbst
August 30, 2023
She’d say that it’s not enough for a man to create a life; he must sustain it. Protect it. Sufficiency means safety. It means contingencies. It means insurance.
COMPANY MAN by Jeff Karr
August 23, 2023
The lord’s light is a fathomless null. Sometimes you’re afforded a glimpse and it’s a tunnel on the other side of which you crawl on the accordioned car’s ceiling.
AT THE VERY CENTER OF YOU IS NOTHING by Alice M.
August 16, 2023
The masks were thin, pliable. They attached to her skin, seamless. They emoted for her, always appropriate, guaranteed to fetch the reaction she wanted.
WHEN IT FIRST STARTED COMING DOWN IT WAS BEAUTIFUL by Billy Irving
August 9, 2023
The Weatherman describes the snow as dumping. Feathery bundles fall against all things and accumulate against all things, and besides that: the grey, and the cawing of invisible birds.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS by Aaron Burch
August 2, 2023
It was exciting and sad and over too fast and underwhelming and amazing, all at the same. It was all of it. It was beautiful.
PEGGING by Josh Sherman
July 26, 2023
Like anything, Hot Wheels has a language. Like any language you encounter, you want to make this one your own.
GETTING QUIET by Emily Marie Seibert
July 19, 2023
The parrot needed quietude and a sense of security in order to come down. My neighbors must’ve pegged me as mad.
SUPER BLACK by Sasha Brown
July 12, 2023
“It’s not that it disappears,” he said. “It’s just deep. It’s like a cliff. It goes all the way down. But it’s something new, Rico.”
UGLY BOYS by Daniel Isaiah Elder
June 21, 2023
Men. A constant desire, sometimes simmering, often burning. Never sated. And for him, I knew, it had been even longer.