The Elephant by Riley Kross

May 17, 2023

My wife kept to her alcove. I kept to my nook. The elephant played between us.

Selenium Sulfide by SJ Sindu

May 10, 2023

I’m here tonight because a week ago I woke up and discovered that my inner thighs had started turning white. Not chalk-white. White-girl white.

The End of Coney Island Avenue by Roohi Choudhry

May 3, 2023

In this country, a man could be lost and no one would know enough to grieve, not even his own mother.

Tractor Town by SJ Sindu

April 26, 2023

My cousin is late. And handsome. And very late. And, technically, not my cousin. But sex would be complicated, and he’s probably a virgin, and his English is not so good, so I let it go.

Goldilocks by Susan Holcomb

March 15, 2023

Sometimes my daughter and I become wolves, just the way we were when she was born.

House Calls by James Sullivan

March 8, 2023

That look in her eyes. That look she’d gotten in church after Dad. Eyes like before a stormy wave crashes on a sailboat, when you know you’ve tried it all and you’re done done done.

Limes by Alexander Lumans

February 22, 2023

He sticks his hand in his pocket for a brush but pulls out melted gray taffy instead. He thinks, can only think, of that painted tree in the rain.

Vertebrae by Jess Masterton

February 8, 2023

Her bones had been bleached, stripped of all muscles and tendons, and you called me to your side as though I were your own.

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Wheat Simulator By Alexander Metz

February 1, 2023

But, if you didn’t think about that, didn’t think about the unreality of everything, it was great. I couldn’t have said how long I played Steer Rope, or how many steers I managed to rack up. For me, the whole point was not to think.

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Before I Stop by Katie Kalahan

January 18, 2023

I see a woman running towards me at the farthest edge of the path between Jimi Hendrix and Sam Smith parks. She's light on her feet, but tense, taut, and I feel that she's familiar.

Eagle Beach by Maxwell Suzuki

January 4, 2023

There are echoes of a childhood and a boy I can just barely remember. There has been an ache in my stomach for me to return.

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Marie by Eliza Sullivan

December 14, 2022

Bones tell stories. They hold intangible memories.

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OptiDream Third-Generation 3Gen Original Dream Machine 100+ Stimuli & More by Devon Halliday

December 7, 2022

but at some point in every dream I end up scraping my teeth out of my mouth

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Movie Stubs by Sophia Veltfort

November 9, 2022

In the weeks leading up to my friend’s wedding, instead of studying for the GRE, I’d made mental tallies of people I dreaded but could reasonably expect to see in Poland.

Stasis by Ryan Bloom

May 20, 2020

The sweet scent of basil, the sharp bite of rosemary, in all the years since Tristan Mallory last breathed them in, they remained as vibrant and alive as ever, even here, light years from Earth, in an Observation Chamber floating in outer space.