Fiction
August Contributors
Aditya Bhatia,Cooper Clarence, and Kenton Sage Schmidt
launching the golden chair
by Julie Iverson
“The big Golden Chair can fly, somewhat.”
conversation with the desk guy at the aubange french foreign legion office at 2:18 am
by John Crawford
“I needed to go somewhere else. I did the only thing anyone can do when they’re in a condition like mine. I got my things together and kissed my auntie goodbye and left to join the foreign legion. How you say. Oui, c’est vrai.”
state of matter
by Madison LaTurner
“If you could move into someone’s basement for a year and become a hermit, that’s what you would have done…Who needs to live out their dreams? Neil deGrasse Tyson is an asshole anyway.”
corpse flower
by Vivian Lawry
“As the spirits of the corpse flowers disappear there, only I weep.”
umbra
by Tiffany Jimenez
“I’d found a loophole. Sasha, who had been watching alongside the other doctors, watched my spirit become consumed in flames as I attempted to hold onto my husband’s soul.“
jimmy the fish
by Tony Cartlidge
“That git with the red pens and the dictionaries and the dandruff falling into his free-range salad? Who cares what he says?”
1962: it’s always the girl’s fault
by DC Diamondopolous
“In the classified section of the Daily Breeze, Donna had recognized a coded message with a phone number and called.”
the prophet of ezekiel, mississippi and the curse of bad love
by Mike Itaya
“He whispered to me that he and Rhonda had tried to steal the can of Cajun Boiled Peanuts from Piggly Wiggly, but the can began to whisper things―deep, dark things…”
blood loss
by Mary Salome
“I used a razor blade to cut my finger and let the blood trickle…”