Fiction

July Contributors

Trina Marie G. Basco, Bryan Charles, Ben Clark, Oliver Cubillos, Sean Ennis, Melissa Feuerstein, Lucas Flatt, Patrick Johnston, Thea Lloyd, Tyler Madeley, Mahen Nadesan, and Cameron Sheffield Noyes

David Estringel 6/25/25 David Estringel 6/25/25

when my ex-wife dies

by Benjamin Drevlow

“When my ex-wife dies, and I promise it won’t be by my hand, I’ll bring her back home and have her stuffed and it won’t be for any sexy stuff…”

David Estringel 6/19/25 David Estringel 6/19/25

three micros

by Swetha Amit

“It will take a while for Pa to clean up the mess. I wait for the storm to arrive.”

David Estringel 6/17/25 David Estringel 6/17/25

pickled herring

by Marcus Silcock

“I do not like to expose my neck to the barber. My head is full of migratory birds, thinks Kato, walking the dust park remembering the lush fish.”

David Estringel 6/12/25 David Estringel 6/12/25

two stories

by J.B. Kalf

“I can still smell the cockroaches, hear the crickets on the wall, taste the headlights on the cars. I am part of the hotel ecosystem, along with cleaning ladies and the teenage clerk and this ecosystem known as the hotel..”

David Estringel 6/9/25 David Estringel 6/9/25

ma’s elmo phone

by JD Clapp

“I just don’t have it in me to go back. But hell, at least she has Elmo now.”

David Estringel 6/6/25 David Estringel 6/6/25

shepherd

by Robert L. Penick

“Dad is passed out in the yard again, couldn’t stagger in from where his buddies dropped him at the curb.”

David Estringel 6/2/25 David Estringel 6/2/25

two micros

by Jack B. Bedell

“She’s there to get some film on the black-and-gold team’s coach. He’s a defense attorney who’s supposed to have severe disk damage at C3-5 after a fender bender, but you’d never know it from the way he’s laying into his wife behind the dug out…”