Fiction from Lillie E. Franks
Photo: Danika Perkinson The Encyclopedia of Endings – And they lived happily ever after. – And she returned to her old town and her old life, where she finally realized that, wide as the world is, sometimes the grass is greenest right where you started off. – So he skipped away, jumping from one planet […]
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 […]
Fiction from Joel Hans
Photo: Jana Klouckova Kudrnová The Times I’ll Trade Time with the Crows A long, long time ahead, the crows’ll give me time in exchange for my children’s possessions—my son’s owl bathtoy, the Crayons my daughter will’ve tried to sharpen with the safety scissors. The crows’ll warn me not to bite into time itself, but rather […]
Fiction from Rosaleen Lynch
Photo: thom masat Making Marys The first Mary is missing her head. I clean the nozzle, pick off the hardened thermoplastic halo that’s clogged and erupted in a mushroom cloud, and drop it in the scrap to be recycled and reset the 3D printer to start again, but I watch as the polymer filament threads […]
Fiction from Cayce Osborne
Photo: Natalie Runnerstrom The Scientist’s Daughter Stage I: Gestation When the scientist learns she is pregnant, she tells no one. Her body begins to change. When the pregnancy becomes obvious, colleagues avoid her and do not offer congratulations. For a working scientist, a baby is a liability. She is proving true every unkind thought they’ve […]
Fiction from Kara Oakleaf
Photo: Dustin Tramel The Shadow Boyfriends Vanessa is the first of the mothers to bring up her shadow boyfriend. You all watch the children from the park benches, eyes behind sunglasses and iced coffees in your hands, and she tells all of you how she still thinks of an ex, all these years later, how […]
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