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 […]
Category: Fiction
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 […]
BREAKERS (Robert Warf)
1] I’ll tell you something I don’t often tell. I’ll tell you what I’ve seen. What I see. I’ll tell you. Just you. 2] White feet in white sand. My feet. His feet. His hand […]
Elegy (Claire Taylor)
The thought pops into her head and she can’t shake it: she’s going to have sex here. This keeps happening. They’ll be somewhere innocuous, if not downright inappropriate, when a heat pulses through her so […]
Rate Your Suffering At Neil Armstrong Middle School (J. Bradley)
Instructions: Use this checklist to rate your suffering at Neil Armstrong Middle School. Once you’re finished, refer to the table below to see how your suffering rates. If you checked … Then … Nothing You […]
Good Night (Joshua Hebburn)
It was Thursday evening, and they sat at the little table in the kitchen drinking beer while the spaghetti boiled and the canned sauce warmed up. “Do you remember Goodnight Moon?” “No.” “You didn’t read […]
