November 21, 2018 | Fiction
Elderly Primigravida
Gessy Alvarez
Dr. Sandoval asked if I was planning on having children.
November 21, 2018 | Poetry
Man on Phone at Gas Station
Sarah Edwards
O Build-A-Bonfire, O
Blue Subaru
November 20, 2018 | Fiction
Girl On Girl
Emily Costa
The story is usually backstabbing of some kind.
On Getting a Facial at the Strip Mall
Sarah Carson
My sister has been reading a lot about her pores lately. At the moderately priced tourist town spa where we've met for the weekend, a commercial for the dual action microdermabrasion brush comes on the television above the hot wax station, and she swears their blackhead diagram is incomplete.
"Talkin' Bout Practice": Follow Through
Alyssa Oursler
In my favorite bookstore in a city where I no longer live, there’s a sign for sale that says: when in doubt, turn left. I don’t remember the name of the gym where I spent my adolescence, but I could
The Pot and Its Handle
Susanna Space
In the spring of 1989 an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building crossed Earth’s orbit.
Dispatches From Humanity
Chris Oxley
Then it came time to open said package of Twizzlers
Glitter Spill and Devil Bird
Britton Andrews
It was supposed to be
a joyous thing
Sleepovers
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
She tore off pieces and kept them in her mouth.
Illuminated
Michelle Chikaonda
It happened at a small party I’d planned at a nightclub in the meatpacking district.
Orthodontics
Troy James Weaver
He was taking swigs out of a bottle of Listerine.
Twenty Plays
Brittany Ackerman
1. My ex-boyfriend got engaged to a girl less than a year after he broke up with me. We had dinner with her once. She was a family friend. She wore hoop earrings and looked like a worst-case scenario Mila Kunis. I hated her but I didn't know why yet.
In The Aftermath
William A. Greenfield
Via some prophecy, my son has
reached one half my chronological
age. And there are so many things
he can tell me: when The Macho Man
first claimed the heavyweight belt,
the year I bought him
Holy Water
Nathan Thomas
Although I guess it really started on Saturday morning.
A Good And Simple Life
Oliver Zarandi
The Boy was born poor and continued to be poor.
The Ass is a Hole Where The Light Gets In
Jon Lindsey
This is a meaningful story about the intestinal parasite I picked up while living in Salt Lake City, in Ted Bundy’s house.
A Story To Spit On
Sebastian Castillo
A bald eagle was shot directly above my head, mid-flight, and its feathers rested gently on my scalp for the rest of geological time.
All Our Italian Friends Are Dead
Fawzy Zablah
I was so broke I went to see my mother.
Merchandiser
Derick Dupre
Esther rises and pulls the cord and moves to the front of the bus, whereupon it brakes and kneels.
To The Princesses I've Broken
Chelsea Sheneman
From The Happiest Place On Earth
The Cure.
Lauren Grabowski
It took a month of working together for Luke to start talking to me.
spell for electron microscopes
Maya Jewell Zeller
spell for electron microscopes/ for silicate minerals & landfills
if my friends say you are a cell tower & I am a bird
if when I say I dream of archaeology what I mean is you
Touching Strangers
Tamara Adelman
The door is open, I said, just come in.