Fiction from Jennifer Lai
Photo: William Warby Portrait of a Normal Nuclear Family As with last Sunday, and the Sunday before that, and the Sunday before that, the husband and wife are shopping for toothpaste. It’s one of the few activities where they are civil to each other. If there’s anything that annoys the husband more than the wife […]
Fiction from Karly Noelle Abreu White
Photo: Them Holmes Sea Born William was gone, which meant it was time for the sisters to get to work. He seemed to run their every day and hour when he was present, but as soon as he left, it was like the spell was broken. They were a team again. The sisters were Ida […]
Fiction from Mileva Anastasiadou
Photo: Marek Piwnicki A Bird Has Grown Inside My Throat It started chirping the day my husband got jailed. I thought it came to celebrate my freedom, that it’d soon sing. The bird started talking instead and soon enough I could barely utter a word as if it took over my voice. As if I […]
Fiction from Laila Amado
Photo: Danny Howe Complete Blood Count The time you cry in a stall of the girls’ restroom in middle school. The walls are dismal beige and a telephone number of someone called Tasha is scribbled on the wall in black ink. There is a bright red blotch on the crotch of your panties. Your friends […]
Fiction from Nicholas Grider
Photo: Denise Jans Stock Footage: A Love Story Here is a picture of a studiously thin white man in a light blue button-down Oxford shirt, tan slacks, and tasseled loafers. He stands in the light gray void of an empty office, not quite smiling, not quite distressed. He is giving you his thumbs up to […]
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