Fictional

Aug 30
12 min

[Fiction] Saving Face

By Kathryn E. McGee I don’t recognize him at first, not until he says my name. “Peach?” My boyfriend, Kyle, is seated and waiting in the...

Jul 1
19 min

[Fiction] Broken Cowboys

by Emmet Browne We drive through West Texas, where the sky is almost red and where the sun sets faster than a bull with its ass ablaze....

Jul 1
19 min

[Fiction] Curio Bay

by John Yunker I held up my arm in front of a woman coming toward me like an early morning mall walker, in Nikes, purple leggings, a pink...

Jul 1
17 min

[Fiction] Inlander

by Oliver Brennan Donna sits as upright as she can, helped by the hospital bed’s automatic lift. She stares at the television above the...

Jul 1
6 min

[Fiction] Keziah and the Whale

by Krista Beucler “Daddy is taking us to Hawaii,” Mom tells Keziah. She uses the bright voice she saves for talking to children, but...

Jul 1
17 min

[Fiction] Rock Bottom

by Laurie Rockenbeck Bob’s daydreams alternated between finding Suzi dead in their bed, choked on her own vomit, and coming home to her...

Jun 14
9 min

[Fiction] How to Make Light Come

by Juniper Soledad is making out with my dead body on a bed of sand. Paper seagulls dangle from the ceiling. A video camera is set-up on...

May 3
7 min

[Fiction] Laguna

by Matthew Johnson Breath in. Breath out. The blue mask covering Cassie’s mouth and nose rose and swelled like foam, trapping in her...

Mar 22
2 min

[Fiction] Seafoam

by Megan Jauregui Eccles When I sold my hair to save my sister, I thought she’d understand. A mermaid’s magic is in her hair. It was all...

Dec 14, 2021
11 min

[Fiction] U-Haul

by Ioannis Argiris “Damn. Jimmy’s got to keep this shit on the low,” Jules says. The U-Haul truck’s suspension seems lower than what he...

Dec 14, 2021
7 min

[Fiction] Pool #31

By Peter Steinfeld We’d gotten everything: cake, flowers, presents, balloons… The cards somehow had slipped my mind. I searched before...

Dec 14, 2021
17 min

[Fiction] All That Glitters

by Wendy Maxon Sara used to love the pastel seascape she’d painted on her curbside mailbox, but today its red plastic flag beckoned like...

Dec 14, 2021
15 min

[Fiction] Stool Pigeon

By Brian Asman So the other weird thing about Bruno Harbeck’s bar was he had this pigeon. It sat on a stool next to a vintage...

Dec 14, 2021
18 min

[Fiction] Yes, Virginia

by Gary Grace I went to visit Mam every Wednesday evening in the home. Ultimately it was my decision. Her and Dad hadn’t spoken in years....

Dec 14, 2021
8 min

[Fiction] Where it Grows

by Megan Jauregui Eccles “Grow yourself a boyfriend,” the box said. How easy it would be. Plant the seed six inches below the soil,...

Jul 16, 2021
18 min

[Fiction] The Jetty by Leanne Phillips

TW: suicide, death By Leanne Phillips This afternoon, the sky reminds me of a sky I knew one hundred years ago. I reveled in cold winter...

Jul 16, 2021
28 min

[Fiction] salmon.king by Art Hanlon

By Art Hanlon Michael left Seattle the year people were getting in touch with their anger. All morning he began to notice the angry...

Jul 16, 2021
23 min

[Fiction] A Place to Call Home by Tomas Baiza

By Tomas Baiza “Sssso, explain to us, young man, why you believe we should proceed with thisss transaction?” The strange voice had...

Jan 20, 2021
7 min

[Fiction] Muhammad Ali's Ballpoint Pen by Ben Loory

Muhammad Ali's Ballpoint Pen by Ben Loory Muhammad Ali had a favorite pen. He found it in a drugstore one day. The pen wasn't anything...

Jan 12, 2021
8 min

[Fiction] From the Other Side by Jordan Nishkian

From the Other Side by Jordan Nishkian Your breath casts a growing fog over the glass while the other side, slicked with rain, gets...