September 8, 2015 | Nonfiction
Grimestore Cowboy
Brian Alan Ellis
I was drunk and coked up and thought it’d be a good idea to cut through some strange wooded area. Then I was completely underwater.
September 8, 2015 | Poetry
Daddy Issues
Tyler Gillespie
I tell you I wish my dad would come out as trans like Caitlyn Jenner &/or late-in-life gay like my ex-boyfriend’s father.
September 7, 2015 | Fiction
The Most Romantic Eighth Grade Boy
Cara Dempsey
Every night since she stays in, thumbing the wheel. She burns napkins and cotton swabs. She burns whatever she can find.
SKATOPIA (POST) LIVEBLOG
Juliet Escoria
Our friend Stacy Kranitz, who is a (super talented) photographer, invited Scott and me to go to Skatopia’s 20th Anniversary Bowl Bash in June. Of course, we said yes. Here is
The Outsiders
Shane Jones
Sometimes my brother would randomly run through the house saying the outsiders sat perched in the trees, they had guns aimed at every window in the house, and we’d run to the basement and whisper our last words to each other in the hiding cabinets
Faults / Cheap Thrills / The Shield / The Corndog Man
Sean Kilpatrick
Being human is about: what’s unobtainable today?
Street Names
Irene McGarrity
When I met Magic on 188th and Valentine, he pulled a quarter from behind my ear. Most guys didn’t try that hard.
Sprint: A Plane Crashes Out Over the Atlantic
Andrew Bertaina
We were sitting on the shores of the Atlantic, waiting for the wind to change and the black flies to get blown back out to sea when the plane went down.
Trade Deadline
Tom McAllister
A few minutes before tip-off, Gorilla stretches in the locker room—he’s no longer allowed to stretch on the court, not since an activist group called it a prolonged obscene gesture—and he is beset by
Alfred Wichly interviews Sucker June author Sean Kilpatrick
Alfred Wichly
Kilpatrick on the artist’s political responsibilities (these are apparently multiple): Hate has more borders than I can muster into the capability of a vision. That’s why I scream in short bursts.
I Had a Dream That Was a Salsa Flavor
Jason Koo
for Rachel Corso
Have you tried all our salsa flavors before?
This is mild (not medium), this is spicy, this is verde
(That means green), this is volcanic, this is you
Not listening.
The Nicest Guy in the World: An Interview with Arthur Bradford
Kevin Maloney
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.” – Kurt Vonnegut
I met
Exact Routes
Caroline Belle Stewart
Sometimes she fears her new husband is her old husband. In her mind the two take up the same space and linger in the same places.
These Are Not Poems
Elizabeth Ellen
My new friend interrupted me to say, “You seem like you live like a real artist.”
My new friend had already been twice published by The New Yorker.
I thought maybe she had confused me with herself.
Chased by the Muse, Part 3
Laura Joyce Davis & Nate Davis
For all the hours we’ve spent with strangers, all the conversations and shared stories, we ask no one’s name—until now.
Always Bienvenido
Lawrence Lenhart
Kneeling on cement, the lifelike nutz dangling in her face, Daniela tried to work the screwpin out of the anchor shackle, but she was unable to unjam it from the lughole, her press-ons flexing dangerously against the hitch.
Chased by the Muse, Part 2
Laura Joyce Davis & Nate Davis
There are five categories for hurricanes; most of the buildings here were built to withstand categories one and two.
If Everything's Under Control, You're Going Too Slow
Meg Wade
Let the okra go to waste, steal oranges from the
corner store. I'll tell you that I love you like I've
loved no one else. Our bodies are made to be
useful, move fast. The fastest man in
Chased by the Muse, Part 1
Laura Joyce Davis & Nate Davis
No one is going anywhere, he says. You will sleep here tonight.
Some Horns (Pt. 7)
Nick Francis Potter
"And look, I can just barely fit my arm through the wound. It's not that big."
Oh, This Was the World: My Struggle with My Struggle, Book 4
Andrew Bomback
Two teenagers are living in my house this summer, and neither has read The Catcher in the Rye. They’ve taken over the basement, binge-watching shows on Netflix and referring to Instagram as
Great Moments in Cinematic Drinking: Die Another Day
Matt Sailor
Pierce Brosnan only has so much time left. He doesn’t know it yet, but this will be his last James Bond film. While it will gross almost half a billion dollars worldwide, it won’t take long for Die
Sucking on Lemonheads
Dorothy Rice
“Ah, so you’ve had an ordinary life,” she said.