by Rebecca Karas

“Someday I would join her, intertwined on the ocean floor.”

by Emmi Khor

“The Menshen Gods guarding the house were not pleased with the arrival of three new deities.”

by Madison Ellingsworth

“If miracles were real, God would have cured our daddy, and that dog would have lifted the telephone pole off itself. But it was us who saved that dog, and it was God who let our daddy die.”

by Amber Budd

“If she knew how to be honest with her therapist, she wouldn’t drop her bundle of shadows at the edge of the sidewalk, like how a mother might leave an infant at a convent.”

by Tom Andes

“Is he going to coldcock his friend? In his jacket pocket, the weight of ten years lifting, Simon slips the knucks off.”

by Adam J. Galanski-De León

“It is the boot and the breaking of bone. Skyscraper fists swiping Gods from the heavens.”

by Mario Aliberto III

“The preposterous size of his legs, pumping up and down, striated where the muscles met and sweat ran in rivulets, had dominated her fantasies the last few weeks.”

by Dimitry Partsi

“You can catch my primetime special every third Tuesday at 3:15 AM, though you'll need a special satellite dish pointed directly at the moon. My sold-out world tour continues nightly in my kitchen.”

by Beth Sherman

“Now that I’m popular, my old life seems as dry as uncooked spaghetti. Now everyone wants to be me. Ugly.”

by Travis Flatt

“And you’re just staring. I didn’t realize, getting all worked up for the punchline, that my mask has begun to slip and some of my horns are showing..”

by Chad Gayle

“Hi! I’m Dirk Bogarde, your online AI assistant. How can I be of service? That is, what can I do for you that you could do for yourself but choose not to?”

by Scott Ortolano

“Glancing over, Amory watched as Brooke’s face drifted and dissolved, ebbing away into the headlights of a passing car; the oblivion holding terror and beauty against the dark skyline.”

by Odin Meadows

“The corpse lies on the couch eating Cheerios while I clean.”

by Marshall Moore

“I consider a shock. The collars also have retractable spikes. It’s so nice to have options. Instead, I stand up to leave.”

by Mike Lee

“Three pulp paperbacks lined up on the wooden rack at the used bookstore I frequented in the East Village. One was by my father, a man my family hardly mentioned.”

by Michael Grant Smith

“Dagger and Crowbar swore their baby sister Klamiddea (named after the Ancient Greek goddess of horniness) was the sweetest of all Raceways.”

by hiromi suzuki

“The dead put on their respective shoes and return to the heavens riding on the lift.”

by Joseph Linscott

“You settle into a hollow. In your brain, a vibration hums that matches the wiggling of worms under your body. A pale glow from the moon extinguishes your fire. Shivers shudder out and from your mouth a grey winged moth emerges.”

by Sean Ennis

“You think it would be easy to feel superior to a Satanist, but you would be wrong. I regularly sell my soul for discount codes, free shipping, and no-obligation, one-month trials.”

by Mileva Anastasiadou

“My shrink does her best but she’s tired. There’s some kind of subtle wisdom in cartoons, but it’s not what I think it is, she claims. She says I don’t miss him, I miss the game.”