Christmas In July Shannon Ready When mom left us, dad said she went up to the North Pole to do some marketing work for Santa Claus and she’d be back as soon as her contract was up, so now every time one of those used car commercials comes on advertising…
Other Kinds of Freezing Jennifer Popa Rick left a bag of apples we’d picked in October in the lazy Susan of his almost-furnished apartment, the dodgy place he rented on Goddard Street, and by Christmas we discovered they were still there, but not until I’d spent the weekend fixated on…
Primitivity Amy Sayre Baptista Melvina said all her best recipes, and the two marriages that worked, began with an axe. One of a Kind Scott Nadelson When I claimed it was no big deal that you gave away my favorite jacket—brown leather, wide lapels, bought in a vintage store…
Trouble Katie M. Flynn The cyber crimes he’d committed hadn’t been as bad as the BuzzFeed piece suggested, but when she read it, her heart palpitated in a surprising way, knowing he was probably cyber stalking her while they went on a series of bland dinner dates followed by…
Gratification William Hamel Karl’s fingers turned into penises on his 40th birthday, and a few months later he finally won his county’s annual bowling tournament. An Optometrist’s Uncertain Self-Diagnosis (or, The Convenient Deception of Eyes, when the Topic of Racism is Avoided in a Passive Voice) Craig Sanders…
Showing Him Lou Gaglia Sobbing, she drew his big stupid face on the old oak tree, then smashed into it with their ‘64 Rambler. Tuesday, 3 PM, Munich Charlie Hill Tomas’ bloodshot eyes darted from side to side, sweat beading off his pallid forehead as he gave a…
Maybe it did,
Leigh Herrick
your death, take these things and having it done now, saying finished, over, transitioned, free, is only false hiatus of real time out-of-focus except for the journey babe, the journey being this train now, train like thoughts of regret that is mere in memory except for moments like this as car after car
He sits at his computer, a brand new MacBook Pro purchased on a Tuesday morning when he would normally be at work but his old laptop has died and since there’s no hope
Good Times Brandon Wells “No, I never read that Brave New World book,” she said, stopping to take her daily Zoloft, Vicodin, Adderal, Aspirin, Xanax, Librium, Lortab, Lasix, Phentermine, and one of those emergency contraception pills because last night had been a little too fun, “is it any good?”…
