Fiction by Hank Kirton

“Lying in a puddle of purple vomit, Lottie von Scrodd interviews herself as if she is a guest on a highbrow PBS talk show.”

Fiction by John Byutorie

“We walked past the empty beauty products …the only products still on shelves being the newly marketed NeauSkin that rolled out a few months ago alongside a robust marketing scheme complete with cardboard cutout of Reese Witherspoon in deadface…”

by J. L. Tyrrell

“This morning the light came through the blinds the same as it did then. Hard, white, pitiless.”

by Thomas M. McDade

“I was so happy with the sad way I rigged their lives that I called my thoughts a short story.”

by Katherine Liljestrand

“When the curtain closes for the last time, instead of the eleven dancers there should be on stage, Camille can only count ten.”

by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi

“Lucretia stood in the outer schoolyard, looking through the fence that separated her from the scene of the crime she had created two months prior.”

by Joseph Quilindrino Niduaza

“As if in slow motion, Heath spotted the incoming feline, and feeling the need to preserve his integrity, and keep his suit clean from cat hair, he evaded the air assault, but with his ungraceful maneuver…”

by Hil Schmidt

“You always look so peaceful when you sleep.”

by Derek Wautlet

“He took one step out over the railing. Then a quick drop, and then nothing.”

by Ben Connell

“As soon as I touched down I was slapped by the heat. I saw a bloke on a scooter with a dishwasher strapped to his back, no word of a lie. Cages full of chickens, horns blasting and funky smells. Pure rabid carnage.”

by Kyle Cox

“He had picked the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He loved animals. She remembered him once, after, going on about jaguars and how strong their bite was.”

by Hank Kirton

“On July 4th she decided to clean her impossible apartment, despite her hangover. Bob's stupid drum set still sat splayed shamelessly in the comer like a homicide victim.”

by Andrew Rai Berzins

“Most of us do things of which we are not later proud. Ghosting a lame date. Prompting an avalanche. Sinking a continent. Or sitting back – beer in hand – dispassionately amused by the antics of idiots…”

by Richard Grayson

“Outside P.S. 15, half a dozen neighbors were gathering the way people do when there’s both danger and uncertainty – half hoping for news, half hoping there isn’t any.”

by CR Widen

“There is a haze over our community- not just the smoke, mind you, but spiritual, a malaise, a sickness. We are missing something fundamental, or perhaps there is a wound we cannot see…”

by Harry Del Monaco

“Legend has it, when the watch stops ticking, the world stops.”

by Jacob Wrich

“Kong is, in fact, the Christ figure. We misunderstand his attempts to save Ann Darrow, the beautiful symbol of mankind’s lost innocence. And because we don’t understand him and his quest to save humanity, we must kill him.”

by James A. Knight

“Steven Porter was found dead in an alleyway, during the winter of 2012. He fell from a window of his fourth-floor town house in Kilburn. The fall shattered his skull, leaving a lake of blood. The red lake was covered in a light dusting of snow.”

by Arjun Razdan

“There is only one Time, and this Montre is its Prophet.”

by Nana T. Baffour-Awuah

“That day, as I laid my best friend to rest, I buried his God too. And I found mine.”