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January 15, 2025 | Fiction

Spooky Action at a Distance

Alexander Hackett

 

You're glowing, she said. And why would I be glowing? It can't be the gutrot wine, or last week's fast food lunches. It can't be my Quasimodo limp, I smashed my toe on a fire hydrant trying to

January 10, 2025 | Fiction

Breaststroke

Talia Vyadro

 

When she used to swim at night her bones cut through water like perforating paper. It was always the same ritual, pants off first with a slight shimmy, arms up high overhead to get rid of the

January 8, 2025 | Fiction

Backtrack and Prune

Josh Lovins

It is a horrible thing to lose a friend, they said, and their saying this made him angry. What did they understand? They didn't understand a single thing.

January 7, 2025 | Fiction

Passenger

selen ozturk

My dad’s passed, my dad says. He’s driving to cremate and bury him. He tears one minute further from me. Two. His phone clatters on the dashboard. Horns and curses. He says BEEP fuck, if I could BEEP

December 30, 2024 | Fiction

I Wanted Violence

Jean Marie

The truth is i wanted to owe. 

but i couldn't say that, that kind of available, that i wanted a knife at my throat demanding all my money, in the bag now;

December 27, 2024 | Fiction

Ocean View

Steven Volynets

   A woman's shriek broke from the dining area, something in English trailing off into Italian.
            Keekah laughed heartily, "the mafia wife is calling."

December 26, 2024 | Fiction

Weird Fishes

Andrew P. Heath

I was informed that it was going to be some kind of horror and pornography mash-up. Lisa promised a murder.

December 24, 2024 | Fiction

excerpt from Where When It Rains

John F Duffy 

I held out my fist, “Midwest love.”

She touched her knuckles to mine.

December 20, 2024 | Fiction

FLUSH

Thora Dahlke

Like everyone born after 1991, I hate my job.

December 18, 2024 | Fiction

DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY

Greg Gerke

Can I sue ABC and Universal Televison for making the Hulk’s transformation overly sexual? I ask a lawyer on Main Street, but he requests that I leave, he has to get a lice treatment.

December 13, 2024 | Fiction

WHAT'S SO HORRIBLE

Amy DeBellis

“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”

“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”

December 12, 2024 | Fiction

Last Friday Night

Odelia Wu

Feels like the hour before closing at Chuck-E-Cheese.

December 6, 2024 | Fiction

Distances

Dylan Reber

The smile on her face huge and probably she knew then that she would marry him.

December 2, 2024 | Fiction

The Invisible Official

Tyson Duffy

The bullies, they made him feel young, alive. He would never admit this to anyone, but he was fairly sure the other teachers, after a glass of wine or three, would concur.

November 28, 2024 | Fiction

We'll Be in Touch

Emma Burger

Every breakfast, lunch and dinner were meticulously documented, each square captioned with the day’s creation: superfood pumpkin risotto, fatty bananas (bananas and butter), avocado tomato mash, yummy liver and beets, creamy spinach and pear, soupy rice porridge, breast milk oatmeal, silky tofu, creamy vegetable soup

November 27, 2024 | Fiction

The Rose of No Man’s Land

Benjamin Bond West

“...symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum. Or so I told myself.” – VALIS

“There’s a rose that grows on no man’s land, and it’s wonderful to see” – The Rose of No

November 20, 2024 | Fiction

Angelspiritbaby94

Maxine Beiny

All Rachel ever wanted to be was a reality TV star. Rachel didn’t mind which show she ended up on, as long as she became famous and had at least 3 brand deals behind her.

November 18, 2024 | Fiction

The Music Is Beginning

Ella Fox-Martens

Alice scoops the teeth up and puts them back in her mouth, slipping them into the holes they were ripped from. She is not sure where else they would go.

November 14, 2024 | Fiction

Twin Tower Memes

Carly Ayres

I thought he’d text back “lolz.” Twin tower memes were funny now.

November 12, 2024 | Fiction

Schadenfreude

Andrew Worthington

Okay, you know how I like to go to the bathroom. We’ve talked about it at sessions over and over again.

November 6, 2024 | Fiction

Intractable

Josh Rank

The guy stood up straight as if physically smacked. I ran up behind her and pushed my finger against the inside of my sweatshirt and couldn’t think of anything productive to add so I just yelled, “Yeah!” and hiccuped.

November 4, 2024 | Fiction

How Ian Curtis Died

Divya Mehra

He says that’s how all rock stars die.

October 29, 2024 | Fiction

Work’s a 4-Letter Word

Peppy Ooze

such as the obligatory Ramones cos of bullshit merch culture I thought and turned the hanger seeing Queen, Queen, Queen, Blur-n-Oasis, Queen, Wu-Tang, Queen, Nirvana, The Cure, Slayer, Joy Division

October 21, 2024 | Fiction

Look

Ruth Schemmel

Sabra Zornes had no intention of attending her ex-husband’s engagement party

October 14, 2024 | Fiction

The Wave

Kyle Proehl

     That’s all I know, less than nothing.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!