Two Figures by Vera Podell

We didn’t fight the night before Richard left…

A Bar Called Confessional by Ashley Pennock

He isn’t sure how it happened, really…

Dietary Restrictions: A Meat-Cute Story by Meredith Kinrys

My bloodied hands were spleen-deep in an animal carcass the first time I saw her…

Nurses by Brian Gotta

“So, this old fucker comes in today, rich guy….”

3Wall by Zac Walsh

It stands twenty feet wide and ten feet tall, its body composed of hundreds of cobbled together stones…

Beneath Still Waters by Patricia Pease

My toy boat stalks a clueless duck paddling on an unblemished pond…

Make Believe 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 I haven’t eaten for two days except what I stole from the fridge before I left, a half loaf of week-old Wonder bread and an opened can of tuna fish… 

Skin Stretch 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…

Beyond Beyond Beef Mountain by Rick Swenson

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

Buoy 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…

The Green Flash 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…

Nightmare by Kevin Camp

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

The Reclaimed Body by S.J. Ladds

The man who raped me was scared of snakes…

Hindsight by Stephen K. Kim

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

LET THE DAY BE BEAUTIFUL by Jack Sullivan

Other bodies…

#SingleOtter by Thomas Kearnes

Mrs. Larue wasn’t satisfied…

i’m still here. by Natalie Chan

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

Listen to me! Breathing through your ears by Charly Murmann

I woke up, this morning…

The Face and the Heel 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…

The Typical Middle School Experience by Ryder Smith

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