Month: October 2022
Spider by Robert Long Foreman
A stranger had made their house a restaurant. We went to eat there. I didn’t know the family at my table, but they loved me. […]
The Ghost Rider’s Horse by J.B. Stone
The way he rides me like I’m the polar opposite of Pegasus, when he knows we share the same damnation. Our deeds differ. I was […]
Butter Dish by Melissa Dittrich
I knocked over the butter dish while going to spread some on a slice of the bread Mom had just made. I went to grab […]
Mothman Has a Crush by Stephanie King
I only wanted to be held. To feel the heat of another wrapped up within my wings. To tumble against one another in a crowded […]
The End by Cameron Bocanegra
Through the window, I observe the man from the jackets of my overdue library books. He broods in a cafe booth. A bell jingles as […]
Partner in the Dark by Tess Clark
The garage lights come on in two sequences. There’s Dad’s table saw. Bottles of rat poison. Millie’s bike, under a blue tarp. There’s something else, […]
Dog Cage for a Mouth by Caleb Bethea
Astrology boys vaping at the moon. A pack of laughing and the speculating of signs, a theory of miracles. Then, their limbs rattling around in […]
La vie eternal by Z.H. Gill
We called the pellucid tank in which we kept the man o’ war the box o’ war. We called the creeping mossgrowing splendidly along the deck (despite there […]
Alligator Blanket by Don Television
It’s often that I hear him that I’m already awake, but just so, teased across the membrane of sleep with a toe or two, with […]