Fists & Fingernails
byYour sanity or your apartment—it’s impossible to determine which one you lost first. There was a time, say four years ago, when you definitely still had both. You think of…
Stories
Heavy Metal
byTall on the Scriptures and short on trust, folks in these parts agree about the primordial and problematic difference of outsiders. Citing Genesis 11: 6, Bible readers fear Nothing they…
Boys’ Night
byAugust 14—one year since the ban. To “celebrate” we all brought our finest bootleg equalizers, good and loaded. T-bone flaunted his homemade barrel and switch, and Barko fashioned a tracker…
Adult Human Fruit Artist
byFrom: @JILLY_AHF To: You Cc: <The Adult Human Huns (group)> The TRA (Trans Rights Activists) are always saying, “Shame on you.” But there’s not even a dandruff dusting of shame…
That Time I Got So Scared I Thought
byI could die, and in softest-sounding Pudsey too, once the biggestvillage in UK. It was a close night, summer like gauze over terracedhouses, the moon spotting through. My bedroom window…
Horn
byAt first it was just a rough spot under his fingertips as he shampooed his hair. He would pick at it and scour it with conditioner, thinking it a strange…
Surveillance
byWe were different. Our brothers liked the dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History and dioramas of animals slaughtering each other, we had less interest. One brother was a bully,…
Consecration
byWhen Allen was diagnosed with myocardial ischemia, Nora’s husband had already died from it nine months earlier, seven hundred miles away in Jacksonville, Florida. Allen never met him and only…
When a Door is Not a Door
byShe never blocked me. I search her name, and there she is, there’s her picture. A few clicks, and there’s her life. And in my dumb hope, I wonder if…
Ghostie on First
byThe kids are in the backyard trying to pull off a game meant for eighteen players with only two. From where Mason Wilshire stands at his kitchen window, he can…