May 16, 2023 | Fiction
Morning Shift
Alyssa Gillon
We loved her but expected her to go on and on, weeping with her flowers and crown, reciting poems.
May 15, 2023 | Fiction
Self-cleaning car cleans self after nuclear blast
Ben Dreith
People keep saying that they can’t say anything but everyone is saying everything all the time.
May 15, 2023 | Fiction
Two Bikes, One City
Matthew Binder
Finally, Mr. Mackey, the chair of the school’s English Department, delivered a rambling panegyric about the school’s depth of talented writers. I left my seat in the bleachers to fetch a Dr. Pepper from the vending machine.
May 14, 2023 | Rejected Modern Love Essay
When My Mother Could No Longer Talk Me Off the Ledge
Catherine Davis
Like many who quit drinking, my mother became a proselytizer for sobriety.
three poems
Myles Zavelo
I was six years old.
He was a German Shepherd named Andy.
Do You See What I See?
Eve Zelickson
A life spent on your tiptoes, trying to fish the moon from the sky is, in fact, very good.
Two Halves of the Story
Edward M. Cohen
The other half was the memories of the end. The time Teddy had threatened to burn the only copy of my novel.
OPERATION WARP SPEED
Ben Jahn
crushes and snorts several thousand milligrams of sildenafil on a nsfw livestream and masturbates until his heart explodes
god won't let me die
Savannah Whitmer
They were a bull dyke in a bull dyke’s body, so God refusing to LET [THEM] DIE was more like, fuck.
The Piano Players
Teddy Burnette
He struggles to come up with actions that give him a sense of joy or purpose when she is not around.
Is Yours This Good?
Summer Koester
Do I break up with my Venezuelan surfer and move back to Alaska? I debated. Or bring him to the U.S. and marry him?
I've Never Known When to Stop
Sofie Wise
Abigail’s face blotched with hot blood. I made my way to the back of the room, ordered a whiskey at the open bar, repainted my lips cherry red.
Pretty Rachel
Sarah Zoric
Yesterday, The Coffee Cart Guy on 38th and 6th had sex with Rachel on the floor of his metal breakfast cart.
Confessions of a Teenage Opium Queen
Rostam Tabrizi
The humid air mingling with my warmth stretches my sense of self this morning. Settling again into my day, I guide myself to the kitchen to make my breakfast. The routine comforts me. I’m tragically
Exorcist Exercise
Danielle Chelosky
He says he feels like all his problems would be solved if he stopped going to that bar.
It’s All Greek to Me
Jack Lancaster
he flashed a toothless grin, all James Dean California Cool, a tan blonde blue-eyed surfer type. I imagined him as the boys Lana sang about.
I Wish I Didn’t Feel Like I Am Apologizing for Existing
Alix Takada Sharp
Things that make sense: plants, deer, video games, sushi, beer.
put yr makeup on & yr hair up pretty
Valerie N. Blackwell
When taking drugs of this caliber – drugs that show you death’s light – there is always some part of you that wants to die.
The Artist Class: The New Millennial Rung in the Social Ladder
Victor Glass
The artist class?
tell me the future souls of the earth
Lis Anna-Langston
Wild as the jungles they came from,
where boas flexed around their trunks —
like my other brushes with miracles,
the men who love you back, how they come
to you, gorgeous and invasive,




