Tag Archives: Alcoholism

Love, Reincarnated

{Jan 17, 2025}

Long before I knew of ghosts as apparitions, I understood them simply to be the presence of the deceased. In this way, I was raised with death, a silent death that lurked largely unmentioned in corners.… more

Family & Unicorns

FLASH NONFICTION by J.D. Isip

{Apr 6, 2024}

First-generation Columbians, meaning whomever you came over with you were stuck with. Which is why his mom didn’t leave the husband who beat her, still kept in contact with the uncle who molested her oldest son. People will use the word family to tie you down, to tie you to them. Forever if they can. So, Fernando left as soon as he turned 18 and never looked back.… more

Brian Comes Alive

CREATIVE NONFICTION by LC Gutierrez

{Nov 14, 2023}

We’ve all chuckled at the theatrics of the stiff-legged subhumans in a zombie film. Brian was fried in a way that no Hollywood pathos I know of has successfully evoked.… more

Merry Xmas, OK?

FICTION by Sheldon Birnie

{Jul 13, 2020}

This year Chappy resolved to show his daughter what Christmas was all about. They’d do it together, like a real goddamn family.… more

Two Stories

FICTION by Justin Herrmann

{Nov 11, 2019}

We’re at it again. On our weekly phone call. Me at the bottom of the world. Her, near the top.… more

Losing Will

FICTION by William Burtch

{Mar 11, 2019}

The instant coffee went down like fracking fluid. Sour. Smelled like miners’ socks. Clam chowder, microwaved, and turkey jerky of unknown vintages had been scrounged. Untouched by either of them.
So the duo departed the house. Confronted the dreary morning in silence to try to find the car…
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