“Don’t you touch that!” Dad warned. But I licked my finger and stuck it to the electric-blue bug zapper anyway. Nothing happened. He said the same about the Teflon pan on the stove, the copperhead with a bulging belly.… more
Author Archives: Ben Drevlow
Everyone Knows About Samson and Delilah
FLASH FICTION by Zary FeketeEveryone says Samson is dumb as a rock, that he’d let Delilah braid his hair and tie him to the bedpost if she asked. Everyone laughs. Everyone has thought about tying Samson to the bedpost at least once.… more
IT HAS BEEN THREE MONTHS SINCE WE LAST SPOKE
FLASH FICTION by Tayler EliseI knew you were thinking about leaving so, I didn’t say, when the world ends, I’d like to survive it with you, and said instead, let me know if you ever get around to missing me.… more
please don’t leave me
FICTION by Erika SpadavecchiaI was suicidal and bored like every summer in Portland, barely alive. Jonathan had a blonde wife who wanted a new kitchen. I gave him head after he bought me a burrito from Taco Bell and before he told me his wife was pregnant with his third child.… more
Flipped
FICTION by Sheldon Lee ComptonThe movie took on a dissolving pattern, the square screen going soft at the corners, rounding off and he thought not of what he’d done, but what he hadn’t done. And more about what he still could do to balance all that had happened.… more
I Peed on my Hand, Amen
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Sydney Ronquilloits just like peeing. it is peeing, what am i talking about, why am i narrating this? i started peeing, missed the cup, and realized i didn’t even know where it was coming from. i wasn’t sure whether to be disgusted or panicked… more
ALL HAIL THE TOFU KIDS
Moans from the Condiment FridgeThe enormous, stinking, crap filled the room. Growing bigger, busting pipes, and soiling sheets, the table in front of me smelled like Patchouli was holding onto its last astrology chart.… more
Curve Ball
FICTION by Joshua D. WetjenAll these years on the road and I’ve never done anything like that before. What really unnerves me is how I barely feel guilty.… more
A Company Man
FICTION by Benjamin GibbonsMy supervisor, Brian Waggingham, says that Olfactory Response Experts are like taste-testers or test-drivers. Instead of dipping fries in new condiments at Craft-Heinz or taking the latest Audi for a spin around a track, we smell cat feces and urine.… more
Swords
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Joey DamianoThat night I jammed my erect penis into the opening of Dad’s new wife’s minced garlic jar and put it back in the fridge, so I guessed we were even.… more
