December 11, 2015 | Fiction
Postcards
Joe Plicka
Pizza Hut pays for my gas, and of course I eat for free whenever I get to one of our restaurants. They allow me fifty a day for lodging, but since we’re saving for that patio set I usually just sleep in the car if the room is over forty. In Iowa City it was hard to find something that cheap but Missouri is like motel central!
December 9, 2015 | Fiction
2 Fictions
Hanna Mangold
six years later and I only know how to be needed
Metamorphosis
Jennifer Stern
I am thinking about the lungfish’s two worlds—the wet one and the dry one—and about metamorphosis. And I am thinking about strokes—about whether it’s the moment that the arm becomes weak that a person’s life goes into pause. Or the moment that the blind spot sets in.
But You Dont Know Any Bon Jovi
Laura Minor
we’re all alone in our corner of need.
Rome/Barcelona/Chicago, Summer, 2015
sara mcgrath
It’s customary in Italy to have food during happy hour. I ordered white wine but was nervous to ask for a plate. When I don’t understand what someone is saying I will just say no.
Theory of Natural Selection
Richard Johnston
Latvia’s Baltic coastline is almost completely undeveloped except for a few fishing villages and some dilapidated concrete resorts for Communist Party officials. A forest of black pines begins right at the edge of sixty-foot dunes.
An uncareful mathematician would always mistake this for love
Julia Dixon Evans
Because Math!
Boiled Tomato
Kaveh Akbar
In a dream you were chewing your fingers down to the knuckle. My fingers, missing nothing, seem a kind of bloom, fluid as they slide through my mouth and the mouths of others. Sometimes I
drunken texting while watching junjou romantica
Dice Jung
a text msg that was sent:
ur hands my hands
both needed if i hit
u first would u hit me back
Seen two hours after I fell in love with you
the text msg that needed 2 be
Forensics and You
Jennifer Pruiett-Selby
The program started with Take Your Kid to Work Day. We were pioneers in the field of crime scene investigation. Everything went smoothly as long as the kids didn’t touch anything. They’ve got eyes
Twenty Failures
Ilana Masad
1. She told him to shut the window-slats. Every shred of light should be brushed away. She wanted to feel invisible.
The GwalaCost // Ep. 3: Sauce or No Sauce?
Jordan Castro
From Osama Bin Laden to the WNBA, Jordan Castro and friends explore who/what has sauce, and who/what doesn't.
I Don't Eat
Frances Amiama
around you because
I want you to keep thinking of me
as a small body, to wonder what keeps me
so pale, what sustains my Spanish mouth.
Don't ask me what I need,
for
I Still Think of You
Tatiana Ryckman
This is not beautiful because this is not beautiful.
Tiger Blood
Bud Smith
I meet a girl on OK Cupid and the first date goes well enough.
Don't Trust Me: I Think of Opera Far Too Early in the Morning
Frank Montesonti
There is a room in the cathedral called
"The Quiet Room."
Imagine.
Its entrance, this body too shaky
for comfort.
Janus, god of doorways and beginnings,
when I desire