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fiction by Page Getz
The Dimenico Brothers
The Dimenico Brothers
“Mars Dimenico’s pit bull, Ringo, ate my favorite g-string while I was sleeping under a velvet picture of a matador in a blue cape. In a trailer park. The Garden of Eden Trailer Park. That’s what you get...”
essay by Gabriel Duran
Air Drums
“I was thinking recently about my first and only girlfriend. We broke up years ago, but whenever people talk about relationships I always want to weigh in. “Well, back when Ariel and I were dating...”
fiction by Neha Tayshete
Brownie
“Even though it lashes outside your window full throated and magnificent, there is still other stuff to engage you than to stand still by the window and breathe in the rain. Your blue coloured false...”
fiction by Adrienne Albregts
ABCs of Alluring Women
“Lydia was not my first choice friend. She certainly did not fit into my theory, which was this: When you move away from your family, your blood, for whatever reason - college, job opportunity...”
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essay by J.D. Anderson
The Ruse
“Plateaus above timberline drained down talus slopes and rugged tarns, through boulder-lined lakes and steep, forested canyons. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness was lifeblood for our...”
fiction by Josh Pray
Last Man on Earth
“I awake in my kitchen, naked, bloodied and vomitously sick. I tried to remember the most recent event, but all that I could recall had happened before today. I had almost no recollection of the current day. Or at least...”
fiction by Jezy Gray
“Fiction/Fiction”
“How could I ever tell you about the way the smoke snaked around the winking radio tower? Or how the room was so quiet you could hear a book of stories slide out of its sleeve? If I sat here at the keyboard...”
fiction by Page Getz
Born a Pickle
“Before Disco Kennedy took over, Jiminy Christmas was a scrappy country band from the Ozarks that made no apologies for their bad habits and mullets. They were fronted by a wirey thing Sirus Waylon...”
fiction by Danielle Vettraino
Reflections of a Psychopath
“so i have this, um, it’s a cell phone. i make, you know, calls on it... and stuff... and it comes off as being this really great thing. you can call people all over the world. there’s also this feature, with the keys...”
fiction by Richie Israel
Parallel Echoes
“The thick black grease of the marker has stained the calendar today, marking my unfaltering farewell from New Capital City. Certain figures lurch upon us with the savage territorial authority of knife...”
fiction by Richie Israel
The Lavatory
“The museum lobby was choked with clouds of conversation, chatter reverberating off polished marble walls. And there were fluted columns, fat as aqueduct pipes, towering until they...”
fiction by Emile Gaboriau
Le Petit Vieux des Batignolles
“When I was finishing my studies to become a Civil Service Public Health Officer--those were good days--I was 23--I was living on Rue Monsieur le Prince, almost at the corner of the Rue Racine...”
poetry by Kristin Bapst
My Father’s Marlboros
poetry by Maria Rachel Hooley
Bruise
Debtor’s Prison
poetry by Ian Drew Forsyth
Cairns
poetry by Chris Nold
Soundview
Nocturnal Orphans
National Record Store Day
poetry by Steven Richter
Forever Frost
poetry by Larry D. Thomas
Driving Home
poetry by Justin Swink
Descending
Fishing
Night Trains
Semblance
poetry by Darah Wraine
Suite 1700: Gynecology & Obstretics
poetry by Benjamin Nardolilli
Reverse Toleration
poetry by J. Don Cook
Day After Day
poetry by John Biscello
-If Sylvia Plath and L.L. Cool J. Had Gotten Down
-This Way Up
essay by Claire McCurdy
Gaijin in Nagasaki