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November 30, 2018 | Fiction

You're So Fucking Dull and I'm a Shadow

Marston Hefner

I ate the steak violently because that was how I loved, and a love this intense must always be met with more.

November 30, 2018 | Interview

An Interview With Leah Dieterich

Rebecca van Laer

Leah Dieterich:’s Vanishing Twins A Marriage came onto my radar when I saw it described as a Barthes-like book of fragments about an open marriage. As I read it, I discovered that it’s a book about

November 29, 2018 | Poetry

My Old Man Poems (from 'Elizabeth Ellen')

Elizabeth Ellen

I thought Roger Waters was full of shit, I mean

November 29, 2018 | Fiction

Three Ways To Escape The Trunk of a Car

Cara Dempsey

 1. Pull the Release

Before opening the trunk, consider the world outside of it. Think of the miles of hot asphalt rolling underneath you. Think of the many men in the many other cars who might

November 28, 2018 | Nonfiction

The Third Floor

Lauren Lauterhahn

If I had to take a shit that meant I had to go downstairs. I didn’t have a specific aversion to leaving the attic— I just never felt like getting out of bed. Also, the second floor toilet got clogged

November 27, 2018 | Poetry

2 Poems

Margaret O'Connell

I'm Sorry but Your Childhood Pet Can't Recognize You on FaceTime

people say I move like my mother     they say my sisters
& I have the same eyes          only way to tell we are sisters
they

November 26, 2018 | Fiction

Steal One Thing From Work Every Day

Joseph Parker Okay

Tori hugged the tree and went home and immediately started petting her dog

November 26, 2018 | Poetry

Unsubscriptions

Joanne Oh

Do 4.1% and 103,000 Mean Anything to You? Are you 18-45? You could join our hepatitis vaccine study. *Donations will be accepted at the door* courtesy of Artificial Eye.

See what’s new: Bat brain

November 25, 2018 |

Magical Realism, Act V

Nora Canby and TJ Murray

November 23, 2018 | Poetry

Heart Sutra

Maria Genovese

The slow stacking of weight or the flinging down of a toe while the torso is already ahead. There are always new body parts to hit on sides of doors. I like to put my legs into pants in front of an open window, then stick my head out to see who’s around.

November 22, 2018 | Fiction

Five Stories

Bram Riddlebarger

The gas station sat on the corner like a tasteless cheeseburger.

November 21, 2018 | Fiction

Elderly Primigravida 

Gessy Alvarez

Dr. Sandoval asked if I was planning on having children.

November 21, 2018 | Poetry

Man on Phone at Gas Station

Sarah Edwards

O Build-A-Bonfire, O
Blue Subaru

November 20, 2018 |

The Life Pursuit

Alex Williamson

The word that comes to mind is delirium. 

November 20, 2018 | Fiction

Girl On Girl

Emily Costa

The story is usually backstabbing of some kind.

November 19, 2018 | Fiction

The Old Woman

William Lessard

The old woman takes another bite.

November 19, 2018 | Poetry

On Getting a Facial at the Strip Mall

Sarah Carson

My sister has been reading a lot about her pores lately. At the moderately priced tourist town spa where we've met for the weekend, a commercial for the dual action microdermabrasion brush comes on the television above the hot wax station, and she swears their blackhead diagram is incomplete.

November 16, 2018 | Nonfiction

"Talkin' Bout Practice": Follow Through

Alyssa Oursler

In my favorite bookstore in a city where I no longer live, there’s a sign for sale that says: when in doubt, turn left. I don’t remember the name of the gym where I spent my adolescence, but I could

November 15, 2018 | Fiction

Dispatches From Humanity

Chris Oxley

Then it came time to open said package of Twizzlers

November 15, 2018 | Nonfiction

The Pot and Its Handle

Susanna Space

In the spring of 1989 an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building crossed Earth’s orbit.

November 14, 2018 | Fiction

Three Stories 

Tom Laplaige

funny how the stars line up.

November 14, 2018 | Poetry

Glitter Spill and Devil Bird

Britton Andrews

It was supposed to be
a joyous thing

November 13, 2018 | Nonfiction

Illuminated

Michelle Chikaonda

It happened at a small party I’d planned at a nightclub in the meatpacking district.

November 13, 2018 | Fiction

Sleepovers

Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

She tore off pieces and kept them in her mouth.

November 12, 2018 | Fiction

Orthodontics

Troy James Weaver

He was taking swigs out of a bottle of Listerine.

November 12, 2018 | Poetry

Twenty Plays

Brittany Ackerman

1.  My ex-boyfriend got engaged to a girl less than a year after he broke up with me.  We had dinner with her once.  She was a family friend.  She wore hoop earrings and looked like a worst-case scenario Mila Kunis.  I hated her but I didn't know why yet.

November 9, 2018 | Poetry

In The Aftermath

William A. Greenfield

Via some prophecy, my son has
reached one half my chronological
age. And there are so many things

he can tell me: when The Macho Man
first claimed the heavyweight belt,
the year I bought him

November 9, 2018 | Nonfiction

Observer

Vanessa Wang

From the shadow of an oak tree.

November 8, 2018 | Fiction

Holy Water

Nathan Thomas

Although I guess it really started on Saturday morning.

November 7, 2018 | Fiction

A Good And Simple Life

Oliver Zarandi

The Boy was born poor and continued to be poor.