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 […]
Category: Fiction
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 […]
Sometimes, Susan (Shaemus Spencer)
You ever have a panic attack? It’s not the same as the anxiety you get when you’re up for a review at work or when your stomach won’t stop turning and your hands keep shaking […]
BEARD-HOUSE (Josh Dale)
It has taken me a year to grow the beard of my dreams. I bought all the oils, all the conditioners, all the brushes and now it is dark and full of mirth down to […]
Where Do We Go From Here? (Megan Neary )
It should be beautiful, to lie beneath the stars on a warm spring night, stretched out in the bed of the beat-up red truck, his arms around her, a pile of blankets on top of […]
Heartbreaker (Olivia Powers)
By the time they wondered where we were we had already been gone for quite a while, first to the back patio behind those mildewed beach umbrellas, then, urgently, into a cab and off across […]
Pincushion (Colin Lubner)
My mother tells her future husband what he means to her by saying to him, “Silly, silly man.” At the same time she tells me what I mean to her by easing my passage into […]
Rejection Letters 