AC|DC 1.1

The Typical Middle School Experience
Short Fiction by Ryder Smith

Roe and Bowen stand just outside of their middle school’s entrance, having their first real argument as a couple…

A wrestler knocked out in wrestling ring

AC|DC 1.2

The Face and the Heel
Short Fiction by J.S. Crawford

I press My Lover's face into the mat and watch as the blood pumps out of the cut on his forehead…

Telephone pole with wires stretching left and right

AC|DC 1.3

Listen to Me! Breathing through you ear
Short Fiction by Charly Murmann

I woke up, this morning. This morning I wake up. One part of my body wakes up, in the living room of my sibling…

Silhouette of a man drinking in front of a 7-11 at night

AC|DC 1.4

i’m still here.
Short Fiction by Natalie Chan

There’s a heart-shaped hole cushioned in between the seats of Alan’s couch…

Graffiti on telephone pole. A stick figure looking at phone with heart emoji.

AC|DC 1.5

#SingleOtter
Short Fiction by Thomas Kearnes

Mrs. Larue wasn’t satisfied. Lichen fidgeted, felt the room’s dry heat, a presence no less blunt than his probation officer’s scowl…

Sunset behind a dark mountain and leafless trees

AC|DC 1.6

LET THE DAY BE BEAUTIFUL
Flash Fiction by Jack Sullivan

Other bodies. Other bodies, next to mine. Not asleep, no. That’s what they’d like me to think…

Differently-shaped and colorful signs that each read "goodbye" in a different language.

AC|DC 1.7

Hindsight
Micro Fiction by Stephen K. Kim

When I moved into his apartment, I did not know that my love for him had already evaporated…

Mixed media painting of a medusa-like figure

AC|DC 1.8

The Reclaimed Body
Short Fiction by S.J. Ladds

The man who raped me was scared of snakes…

POV from a windshield of a highway on a foggy night

AC|DC 1.9

Nightmare
Short Fiction by Kevin Camp

The young man was on the aircraft, halfway home, before he realized what had happened…

A small sailboat in a large blue body of water.

AC|DC 1.10

The Green Flash
Short Fiction by Jennifer Walker

That first night there was just the second-to-second scramble to survive stretching time and sucking it down the distorted vortex of trauma…

AC|DC 1.11

Buoy
Short Fiction by Charlinda Banks

The thing about landsickness is that it only leaves you when you’re underground so deep that your feet aren’t trying to be parallel and running anymore…

Close up of a black and white cow sticking out its tongue.

AC|DC 1.12

Beyond Beyond Beef Mountain
Short Fiction by Rick Swenson

In the 2060s, the super-wealthy left Earth to populate the Moon and Mars, leaving the poor and working class behind…

An abstract image of different shades of green and white.

AC|DC 1.13

Sub-Zero Temperatures
Creative Nonfiction by Emma Grey Rose

Because you were my friend. Because I was in love. Because you gave me a nickname. Because you laughed when I insulted you…

A distorted image of a person covering their face with their hand.

AC|DC 1.14

Deformation
Creative Nonfiction by Amy DeBellis

I am fourteen years old when I learn about the “true mirror.”

AC|DC 1.15

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
Poetry by Drex Le Jaena

Today I found myself walking on footbridges feet light still not weary out on an excuse to walk in the alley where we first found a convenience store…

The bottom half of the backside of a Barbie Doll laying on the street.

AC|DC 1.16

Skin Stretch
Short Fiction by Umaima Munir

In mid-December, I wake up during my commute when the elderly man pushed against me hacks his throat out and I feel the droplets from his mouth fly dangerously close to my eye…

AC|DC 1.17

The Black Dog
Poetry by Patty Caffrey

Quiet.
Do you too feel like the black dog?

Hand holding a lit cigarette with a string of white lights in the background.

AC|DC 1.18

the visit
(golden shovel after Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho 52)
Poetry by Jess Wright

three a.m. on christmas eve & I
find you on my doorstep, passing a cigarette back & forth, asking would…

AC|DC 1.19

Make Believe
Short Fiction by Don J. Rath

Tonight I’ve got to go to the truck stop off East 80 because Tommy’s mom kicked me out of her house again, and haven’t eaten for two days except what I stole from the fridge before I left…