Self with Lowered Head
By Zach Davidson - Mar 4, 2019
At the kitchen table, I drop a dumpling onto my crotch. Her lips are sauced. The teal two-piece is still visible on the couch behind her.
Read More >Puffers
By David Nutt - Feb 26, 2019
The puffer is not only dead. The blameless little guy has been poached white as an egg.
Read More >Two Stories
By Clare Tascio - Feb 11, 2019
They started babbling for canes and wheelchairs before they could eat solid food. But they stayed small.
Read More >A Story Narrated by the Boy Who Collects Flies on His Face
By Kit Schluter - Feb 7, 2019
They shout, “Come out, come out, Gabby! We only want to write funny old words on your back!” But you should know by now that these words are by no means funny. The words these men want to write are so ugly that they are not even words anymore, but touches.
Read More >Conspiracy Theories
By Sam Cooke - Feb 4, 2019
Only boys play war. Every boy picks a gender: boy or girl. Every boy wants to pick girl but no boy has the courage. The silence between the question and the answer is the war. The rest of the game is spent alone.
Read More >A Series
By Clare Needham - Jan 21, 2019
A
The pain is having been seen for myself –
and then having this vision
disappeared.
Read More >I Called Shotgun When You Died
By Christopher Kennedy - Jan 11, 2019
I called shotgun when you died, thinking we could still ride together through the neighborhood, selling bags of light to the newly dead. It didn’t seem fair that you had to cross the river by yourself.
Read More >Heartbreak, Texas
By Rebekah Morgan - Jan 4, 2019
You are not the alarm clock and you are not the styrofoam cup, you are not this bed, or pillow, or the rug I bought today.
Read More >69 Remakes
By Big Bruiser Dope Boy - Dec 24, 2018
Remake of Home Alone where I break into my dad’s house, hide in his bed with a knife, and, when he finds me, calmly say, “tuck me in, motherfucker.”
Read More >Three Shorts
By Evan Lavender-Smith - Dec 17, 2018
They are dreadful. They fill us with dread. We know that we fill them with dread, too.
Read More >Exposure
By Julie Reverb - Dec 14, 2018
He stood facing the bar, lodging himself in between two stools as he downed drinks and decided why he was there, what he wanted. Yes, he would let love in for once. It would be gorgeous but faceless: steel-like with no sagging. Their reflections would blur namelessly into one.
Read More >Canaries
By Stephen Mortland - Dec 12, 2018
The sky was plumb and decorated with the ruptured birds. Even from such a distance, the agonized screeching ricocheted between the houses and onto the roof where we sat.
Read More >A Seabird
By Lily Hackett - Nov 28, 2018
Still, my early roots hurt. Swelling hurt. The earth was like a nightmare, very damp and crawling.
Read More >Foam!
By Catherine Foulkrod - Nov 26, 2018
Like, think of the sound of sipping coffee from the rim of the cup when the coffee is too hot. Or, imagine he was sucking pleasure back into himself and it burned.
Read More >Thanksgiving Poems
By Michael W. Clune - Nov 22, 2018
Millions of Insects
By Zachary Schwartz - Nov 21, 2018
After the acid trip had failed to produce the awe and wonder, mind-shattering revelations, and screensaver-like phenomena that they had been primed to experience, and after yelling and turning off the “Red Pill” video on YouTube that had unexpectedly and abruptly turned into neo-Nazi propaganda, he and his friend decided to watch a nature documentary.
Read More >The Trip of a Lifetime
By Vanessa Mancos - Nov 12, 2018
Pink drips through my jaw onto my neck and shirt. My mother uses her knife-hand on my face again. The grass doesn’t know where it belongs. It grows through the holes in my face.
Read More >Excerpt from Friday Night Light
By Alex Ward - Nov 1, 2018
Excerpt from the novelization of the album Friday Night Light by Perverts Again.
Read More >Her First
By Babak Lakghomi - Oct 29, 2018
In the mirror, the daughter’s head looked like a bloated cantaloupe. The doctor was going to be there any moment.
Read More >Tyrant Hotel, Ep. 2
By Tyrant Hotel - Oct 23, 2018
The second episode of Tyrant Hotel, a magazine-for-the-ears from Hotel & New York Tyrant, featuring Scott McClanahan and Juliet Escoria.
Read More >Snow
By Ken Baumann - Oct 22, 2018
When I focused on the snow, it appeared I was moving trillions of miles per hour in outer space, plunging past all the stars. My perspective seemed the center of everything.
Read More >Some Cliffs, Which Overlooked Some Sea
By Gabriel Smith - Oct 15, 2018
I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination room. There was a chair, and another chair, and a hydraulic doctor bed.
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