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…”
waiting
by Walter Weinschenk
“The sea is a tumult, a terrifying process, and I’m too scared to venture out, too afraid to move, but too afraid to be alone…”
katabasis
by Elodie Ashcroft
“the ugly traffic lights remain, the lights that stop and start us, that take our choice away.”
the sandlot/event horizon
by Eric Angal
“I met the guru last year at Wildheart: The Mid-Life Retreat For Men. He led the program’s transcendental meditation seminars and worked individually with retreat attendees to prescribe unique mantras to us, and to help us understand the uses and benefits of TM.”
ringing the island belle
by William P. Adams
“Kirby and the Market were so closely linked that no one on Belle Island could remember when there was one without the other. “
clam guts
by Susan Flint
“I LIVED IN A CITY WHERE THE MONEY FESTERS LIKE MOLD. I HUNG AROUND THAT CITY’S NECK. I ATE THE SCRAPS IT FED ME…I ENDURED THE SIGHT OF HOMELESS PEOPLE ON THE SUBWAY AND I THOUGHT IT MADE ME SPECIAL. I SWALLOWED CIGARETTES WHOLE.”
bodies
by Emily Buli
“It starts with a video of two women kissing, which intrigues me in a way I don’t fully understand. Megan watches on the bean bag beside me. Her eyes are like glass—red and distant as she takes swigs of hard lemonade with one hand and pets her dog with the other.”
the work of a queen
by Emmi Khor
“The votes were in; she would soon be Queen and her words finally matter.“
roger lamb
by James Zoller
“I was born into a family of great failures.”
grape covers
by Eray Erkek
“He held the ladder steady. The damp floor with hose water covered his surroundings, green and brown like bruised skin.”
just an idea
by Michael Czyzniejewski
“So, my idea, for down in the station, in the background, is we have the shoeshine booth, yeah, but instead of shoeshines, guys polishing shoes, we have guys polishing teeth.”
woman in the coral
by Rebecca Karas
“Someday I would join her, intertwined on the ocean floor.”
protection from the gods
by Emmi Khor
“The Menshen Gods guarding the house were not pleased with the arrival of three new deities.”
lik-m-aid
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.”
if she knew how to be honest with her therapist
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.”
one more thing i need to say to you
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.”
when it rains
by Adam J. Galanski-De León
“It is the boot and the breaking of bone. Skyscraper fists swiping Gods from the heavens.”
a centaur’s blood is always poison
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.”
“hello, I must be going.”
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.”
popular
by Beth Sherman
“Now that I’m popular, my old life seems as dry as uncooked spaghetti. Now everyone wants to be me. Ugly.”
fishing at olive garden
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..”