The skunk gets his bearings. He is…where is he? It is cold, dark, as always the landscape is glossy and rolling and endless. He taps for the cigarettes in his left front pocket, knowing even […]
Category: Fiction
Bandicoot Summer (Rhea Dhanbhoora)
There was a summer when big bandicoots took over. The same summer they took over you said we were better together, the summer we lived together, the summer we bought a hamster, the summer I […]
How Meat Could Be The Next Big Thing (Matt Rowan)
I found the heart pumping and spurting blood from its many severed veins. I was already running late for my important meeting. It seemed like fate. It seemed like fate because I was also completely […]
Notes from the Train (Twishaa)
Woman enters train. One seat is empty. Next to Tupi wearing, paan-chewing man. She takes it. At the first stop, a seat beside me is vacated. Woman gets up and sits next to me. At […]
Goodbye, Sven (Devin Kate Pope)
It costs two hundred dollars to humanely put a bird to sleep. That’s significantly less than the one thousand it costs for the MRI to see if surgery is possible. And the surgery is still […]
Diamondhead (Amy Barnes)
I cut off Bob’s head with my good sewing scissors. The lei around his neck looked frivolous when the picture was snapped. He hated it. His sneeze was exaggerated like a cartoon character. On that […]
Zelda (Danielle Chelosky)
I am in Michigan when Zelda the Mysterious predicts:You are a very sensitive person and a very critical one. You have a sharp tongue which may cause unhappiness to others.[…]
Prayer For Leaving In The Middle Of The Night (Ruth Weissmann)
On the car ride we practice our hagiography. Saint Anthony, patron of lost things, please let my plastic panther with the eyes that glow in the dark be hiding under the seat and not left […]
Everything Must Go (Dana Knott)
Eight a.m. on a Saturday morning, Rachel opened the door, clad only in her robe and fuzzy slippers, without even a quick look through the peephole. A mob of people pushed past her and poured […]
