Fiction
March Contributors
Traci Adams, Seriah Black, Camryn Brennan, Christie Chapman, Garima Chhikara, Blake Christian, JD Clapp, Cooper Clarence, Andrea Damic, Jonas David, Jessica Edmond, Miles Efron, Christina Ellison, Rahel Gamma, Mario Georgiou, Michael Hagen, Nevin Haque, Foxx Hart, Isabelle Hughes, Kathryn Kulpa, Oliver Land, Aster May, Helaina Pisar Mckibbin, Mitchell Miller, Pete Mitchell, Saee Motling, Kelly Murashige, Peter Naughton, Karl Nykwest, Michael E. O'Reilly, Alex Pugsley, Neil Randall, Michael Ranfone, Alexei Raymond, Frank Reardon, Frank Reardon, Sullivan Rex, AP Ritchey, Dane Rook, Adele Schultz, Peter Sipe, Kahlo Smith, Elizabeth Sundstrom, Elridge Thomas III, Brendan Todt, Tanuja Viswanath, McKenna Wilds, and Keiran Wyatt
March Highlights
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once i was medusa
Flash Fiction by Garima Chhikara
“They knew my name, but they chose Medusa, the goddess, the untouchable, the stone-eyed killer from their favorite game. I hought they meant it as mockery. But they shouted it in exaltation, like a banner lifted high.”
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the girl who ate her dreams
Flash Fiction by Michael Hagen
“Mother says: eat your dreams while they are fresh, or they’ll fester and rot. But he hasn’t. His skin, soft beneath my tongue. I have eaten all my dreams, a good girl—until him.”
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table for one
Fiction by JD Clapp
“I turned 55 today, double knuckles, racing headlong into they call the Golden Years. Shit, with the ways things are going, fool’s gold maybe. Happy fucking birthday to me.”
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dread of red
Fiction by Sullivan Rex
“I duck down to the floor and lift the tablecloth to see a huge pool of blood surrounding a severed arm. What the fuck is this?! I grab the fork and sit up straight. ‘Everything okay, honey?’ the woman asks. ‘Do you want some more casserole?’”
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a tribute to henry in apartment 8f
Micro-fiction by AP Ritchey
“The elevator took the long way down—it always did—and in that rattling, humming descent I caught myself thinking about Henry…”
how may i help you, you sniveling twit?
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?”
sand
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.”
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…”