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Fiction and Poetry

“Words, words, words.”

Flash Fiction

Green

Margo Petrucha -
I used to live with my dad on a weed farm in Humboldt County. His grand mission in life was to breed the perfect...
Fiction

A Little Evil

Andrew Mollenkof -
At night, I turn into a demon and ride people. My girlfriend doesn’t like it, but what can I do? It’s in my nature....
Fiction

Overselling

Adam Kaz -
Roger, because he gets everywhere first, was already in The Dumb Horse Pub, staring at his good looks in the mirror behind the bottle...
Fiction

A Boxer Goes to Sleep

Aastha Dhyani -
One morning I woke up to laughter. Laughter. I knew it must be a dream. I squeezed my eyes shut, thinking I’d wake up...
Poetry

Slime Flux And Other Poems

Rae Anderson -
  Slime Flux   were they blue or red     the circling birds      in that one dream     i had as a small...
Fiction

Serious Love

Feyisayo Anjorin -
At some point in the past you didn’t have this obsession that seemed like the stuff of Beyoncé’s Dangerously in Love song. You never...
Fiction

I Handed You That Match

Grace Whitmore -
  Columbia River New Year’s Eve, 2016 Ahead of the powerboat the river was a trembling plane pierced by starlight reflections, and behind it the river was...
Fiction

Bhagwan Ji

Chirodip Naha -
All of them sat in a corner of Sashi Master’s living room as it rained heavily outside. In his modest house, the living room...
Fiction and Poetry

Moros and Cassandra

S. N. Ara -
Moros’ corporeal form is an awkward tangle of too-long limbs and too-narrow hips, neither of which ease his drive through the congested streets of...
Fiction and Poetry

‘Arena Ukraine’

Lance Mazmanian -
At every side, cannons. And the only escape... A small and muddy swath with lungs of afternoon and flowers of yesterday soaked in earth and red oil. Kettles in either hand each glowing as stars and...
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