Princess Butterscotch gave birth to the cutest kid. Cheryl got super jealous when Butterscotch gave birth. Cheryl would nip and kick at the kid until Butterscotch kicked her ass goat style. Cheryl was better behaved after that. It was a good life lesson.… More
The Summer I Passed My GCSEs
FLASH FICTION by Benedict PignatelliLast time I took a picture of my uncle, just back from the front, in the warehouse where we store the supplies, and my uncle warned me not to allow geolocation to track the photo. Now I am sure that it was me that killed him, me and my fucking Snapchat.… More
Where Do We Go From Here?
FICTION by Ilyn WelchThere I’d be, their pumpkin coachman with the Johnny Depp glued to my face, passing out business cards. Didn’t get many takers, but I did get some Polaroids of buxom blondes pissing in the alley, steam rising from the pavement. Art!… More
Rowan’s First Week
FICTION by Scott MilesRowan tells me he’s here to file a request to contest a restraining order filed by his wife, Ambrosia. “Like the marshmallow salad?” I ask. No, Rowan says, and then he mentions something about immortality and ancient Greek mythology and I snooze on him.… More
This Is Practically a Lie
FLASH FICTION by KUMAR SEN“Man” means a set of expectations you inherit like debt with interest that compounds in silence. “Soft” means breach. “Crying” means loss of data, irrecoverable. “Fear” means user error, correct immediately. You scroll. You don’t read. Nobody reads.… More
You Said
FLASH FICTION by Dina PerthakinesAC conked out a week ago and the fan’s just blowing hot air around. The City is fucking loud and one asshole won’t stop laying on the horn. Thought I’d be inside you tonight. You said. Waited all summer.… More
Partial Guide to Being Half-Mexican
FICTION by Nicholas LeónThe first thing you should do is admit you will never be full Mexican. You will never do this. The second thing you should do is make good on the threat you made to Oscar at lunch the other day and show him your Dad at Fall Festival coming up.… More
A Dollar Bill
FICTION by Jacqueline ChouShe said you could take a hundred-dollar bill, and step on it, and get it all dirty. You could drop it on the ground, and a dog could take a dump on it. But you still wouldn’t throw that Benjamin away. Because it was still worth a hundred dollars.… More
How to Mind Your Own Business
FLASH NONFICTION by Marcia YudkinWhen someone drifts far from shore on a bright yellow or orange float—a shark attractor for sure? The lifeguard tower remains mum. I hold my tongue, too. Not my business.… More
What I Should Have Done
FLASH FICTION by Susan IsraelDad was in Da Nang when I was born, so he wasn’t there pacing, wearing holes in the maternity ward carpeting, making funny faces at the bassinet just beyond his reach. He was loading an M16. He named it after me.… More
Brother
FICTION by Fran KursztejnVenezuela was bombed. We bombed them, I mean. These things don’t just go and happen. I had the feeling, because of events that happened later, important events to the story, but no more or less important than the bombing, that I bombed them, Venezuela I mean.… More
