November 30, 2018 | Interview
An Interview With Leah Dieterich
Rebecca van Laer
Leah Dieterich:’s Vanishing Twins A Marriage came onto my radar when I saw it described as a Barthes-like book of fragments about an open marriage. As I read it, I discovered that it’s a book about
November 29, 2018 | Poetry
My Old Man Poems (from 'Elizabeth Ellen')
Elizabeth Ellen
I thought Roger Waters was full of shit, I mean
November 29, 2018 | Fiction
Three Ways To Escape The Trunk of a Car
Cara Dempsey
1. Pull the Release
Before opening the trunk, consider the world outside of it. Think of the miles of hot asphalt rolling underneath you. Think of the many men in the many other cars who might
November 28, 2018 | Nonfiction
The Third Floor
Lauren Lauterhahn
If I had to take a shit that meant I had to go downstairs. I didn’t have a specific aversion to leaving the attic— I just never felt like getting out of bed. Also, the second floor toilet got clogged
Steal One Thing From Work Every Day
Joseph Parker Okay
Tori hugged the tree and went home and immediately started petting her dog
Unsubscriptions
Joanne Oh
Do 4.1% and 103,000 Mean Anything to You? Are you 18-45? You could join our hepatitis vaccine study. *Donations will be accepted at the door* courtesy of Artificial Eye.
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Heart Sutra
Maria Genovese
The slow stacking of weight or the flinging down of a toe while the torso is already ahead. There are always new body parts to hit on sides of doors. I like to put my legs into pants in front of an open window, then stick my head out to see who’s around.
Five Stories
Bram Riddlebarger
The gas station sat on the corner like a tasteless cheeseburger.
Elderly Primigravida
Gessy Alvarez
Dr. Sandoval asked if I was planning on having children.
Man on Phone at Gas Station
Sarah Edwards
O Build-A-Bonfire, O
Blue Subaru
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
Dispatches From Humanity
Chris Oxley
Then it came time to open said package of Twizzlers
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.
Glitter Spill and Devil Bird
Britton Andrews
It was supposed to be
a joyous thing
Illuminated
Michelle Chikaonda
It happened at a small party I’d planned at a nightclub in the meatpacking district.
Sleepovers
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
She tore off pieces and kept them in her mouth.
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.




