Fiction
November Contributors
Eric Angal, Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi, Ben Arzate, Elodie Ashcroft, Iku Bittern, Maria Pianelli Blair, Margaret Cahill, Elijah Cansler, Myna Chang, Christie Chapman, Megan Chunn, Kyle Cox, Michael Czyzniejewski, Reagan Davenport, Erin Dawkins, Daniel Deisinger, Brooks Egerton, Mary Grimm, GRSTALT Comms, Alexander Holcomb, Yuna Kang, Nolan Knight, Zoe Knowlton, Vivian Littlefield, Clare Martin, Shrutidhora P Mohor, Davor Mondom, Seth Parker, Maisy Phelps, Hil Schmidt, Sumitra Singam, P. X. Vayalumkal, and Walter Weinschenk
November Highlights
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rag doll symposium
Fiction by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
“In the invigorating darkness between tired streetlamps, Andie's mouth ached, both from the numbing cold and the lengthy lack of practice those deprived muscles had in performing a smile.”
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the job interview
Micro-fiction by Ben Arzate
“The interviewee goes to the nearby window. He jumps out. He falls twenty floors and dies on impact with the sidewalk…The company accepts him for the position two days later….”
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tough guys
Flash Fiction by Myna Chang
“She shoves my tie aside, taps a button mid-chest with the blade, tap tap tap. Who is this bitch? She’s grinning again, all teeth, and she smells like copper, like old pennies…”
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asphyxia
Fiction by Yuna Kang
“I blink, and Rella leaves my bathroom mirrors. I blink again; she finds a new home in my bedroom corner.”
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our darkness
Flash Fiction by Reagan Davenport
“For a moment, I saw nothing, heard nothing, but I felt her moving again inside me. For a moment, we were both alive.”
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a blue baby in a red house
Fiction by Shrutidhora P Mohor
“…inside that demolished heap, is a pair of tiny, helpless hands, fingers curled up, nails light blue, the skin as thin as muslin, a premature blue baby whose survival was questionable right from the moment of its coming.”
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the fable of the storyteller and his witch
Flash Fiction by Sumitra Singam
“It was never clear who hurled the first stone. The flinty piece of rock hit her on the head, leaving a dark bloom of blood.”
unintelligible mutterings of a not yet dead corpse
by Odin Meadows
“The corpse lies on the couch eating Cheerios while I clean.”
the children’s library
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.”
hollywood
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.”
area man
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.”
the modest widow
by hiromi suzuki
“The dead put on their respective shoes and return to the heavens riding on the lift.”
three stories
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.”
lord miserable
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.”
cartoon people
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.”
blood loss
by Mary Salome
“I used a razor blade to cut my finger and let the blood trickle…”