Return to Nowhere
byTWO RIDERS MATERIALIZE FROM A SHIMMERING MIRAGE of heatwaves that dance on the blasted surface of this desert wasteland. They are men of legend, El Sombrero Blanco, the Pistolero de…
Stories
Coins Over Flowers
byWinner of the Bridge Eight Summer Short Story Prize Estimates suggest Nellie Plink started sheening sometime in late December. Her husband of two years first noticed the characteristic iridescent film…
Picture 54
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize Content Warning: Racism, Death, Suicide, OCD, and Self Harm ALEKS WAS A BURDENED MAN OF TWENTY-EIGHT WHO GUARANTEED THE DEATHS…
How to Cut a Pomegranate
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize POMEGRANATE IS HARD FOR KIDS TO PRONOUNCE. It is difficult to wash the red stains from their fingertips and shirt…
Earthbound
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize TEDDY SENT A LEGO MAN INTO SPACE. He sent a pirate into the stars. The macabre, execution style method was…
ShantyLand
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize TODAY WE HAVE A VISITING CLASS OF THIRD GRADERS FROM SIMPLE MINDS MONTESSORI ACADEMY. As their Educational Liaison, I lead…
This Single Length of Rope
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize MEET THE ROPE. Study with me its twisted construction, follow its long length all the way from London to upstate…
Beep Beep
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize THE COFFEE MAKER. The microwave. The notification that yet another person, someone you haven’t spoken to in over two years,…
So Far Behind I Thought I Was First
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize I FIRST MET JJ AFTER HE BECAME, OF ALL THINGS, A NOTABLE FIGURE. He’d taken a job at the gas-station…
An Inkling
byA stranger in her own home, in her own marriage, the Mother must confront the cause of this estrangement, her husband, to protect her only true family, her son. In…