Posts by Michael Robert Liska

June 17, 2025 | Fiction

What Is the Moon Called?

Michael Robert Liska

The moon men decided to come to Earth because they didn’t like the way the Earth people were always staring at them. Whenever they looked up at that enormous blue orb through their telescope, the

October 3, 2024 | Interview

Fodder for Infinity: A Conversation with Garielle Lutz about Backwardness

Michael Robert Liska

“Once in a while, somebody is interested in what I might have to say. This somebody says, ‘I want to hear you out. I want to hear you out until there’s nothing left. I want you to tell me everything

May 6, 2024 |

The Paddler

Michael Robert Liska

A drunk woman invites me into her canoe. It isn’t really her canoe; it belongs to a sullen man sitting by a campfire. I had wandered through the woods from my own campsite, looking for beer, and found

January 18, 2024 | Fiction

The Pretenders

Michael Robert Liska

“Girls like porn too,” she said. “Don’t be sexist.”

November 15, 2023 | Fiction

The Dead Things Club

Michael Robert Liska

I borrowed my mother’s car and went to the mall a lot and stole things, which I then threw into the dumpster outside. One time I drank an entire bottle of Nyquil and almost died, but nobody noticed.