It was what they had both wanted. Pulsing club music. Alan’s hands on the man’s hips. A bright smile with a wicked hook. When they kissed, it had been more like crashing. Collision.… more
Category Archives: FICTION
Lightning Over Pasadena
FICTION by Maura YzmoreThe heavy rainfall had stopped, and the wide empty streets glistened with the changing colors of the traffic lights. It was almost midnight, but he never seemed to leave work earlier these days. Not that anyone waited up for him anymore, not after Alyson.… more
Eat Me
FICTION by Matthew Zanoni MüllerEveryone loved to bite me, to take little pieces of me whenever they felt like it.… more
Tex Shochet
FICTION by Burke De BoerThe boat to Cyprus cost us only our labor. In the short time of many hours we formed the bond of work. We were not unflinching, but we worked through the flinches.… more
Birthday Boy
FICTION by Nathan Cover…And a channel opened between her and me, but shit I mean to tell you I was like holding my breath as I’m cutting and she’s telling me about her and Brian and if I hadn’t been cutting her hair I would have been crying so hard, but I knew if I let it out I wouldn’t be able to finish and the channel would close…… more
Kiss Those Days Goodbye
FICTION by Kevin BigleyAn old man is confronted with an existential terror encroaching upon his land.… more
Luckily, There’s a Fix
FICTION by Al KratzOnce upon a time, the mad world got even madder, and cheeseburgers started falling from the sky. … more
TWO STORIES
FICTION by sid siboTwo people climb up the sides of Mount Coffin on a dusky-dark November morning, only a half-mile apart, though they don’t know about each other yet.… more
Loose Stitch, 1991
FICTION by Jason DeYoungIt was a clear vision, a desire to be changed by something. … more
Rescuing Jacobi
FICTION by Mike ItayaSaturday, 3:20 PM. The woods behind school. Our plan to get stoned hits a snag when Danny and I happen upon a four-foot-deep hole, and stand peering down at our teacher, Mr. Jacobi, immobile at the bottom. An evil, booze-infused smell fills the air.… more
