Rockets flew over Beirut like fireworks. I stood at the party and watched the sky and listened to a young revolutionary. She was like the sun—bright, burning hard enough to warm whole galaxies. But the universe doesn’t do happy endings with stars.… more
Category Archives: FICTION
DAMP
FICTION by Nolan CodyThe difference between a Carla and a Karla is that a Karla is on a first-name basis with the clinic counter.… more
Hometown Quarrels
FICTION by Ian JohnsonShe and Peewee were a meeting of vacant minds and serpent spines. I was there when Peewee skewered his testicles in junior high, breaking into the junkyard, so spawn seemed unlikely. Small mercies.… more
8 Seconds
FICTION by Grace Lodewick“Be careful,” she says. “Or I’ll kill you before the bull does.”… 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
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
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
All Hackers Go To Hell
FICTION by Charley PaxosYou can kill everything in the game, an entire universe of things to murder, and the few things that you can’t kill, you can bring to life with cheat codes and then kill. Intense violence, blood and gore, Graphic Depictions of Harm has it all.… more
