Tag Archives: Relationships

Master Plan

{Jul 8, 2019}

I will sit in my company’s unfinished office space with a woman I hardly know and tell her everything about me, from the most deeply personal details to the most inconsequential. During our interaction I will drink high-quality gin to facilitate the telling.… more

Marriage Laundry

FICTION by Mahdis Marzooghian

{May 17, 2019}

Sam was teetering underneath that fragile leave-stay threshold. She had to make it just past that…… more

Bittermoon

FICTION by Joel Wayne

{Jan 28, 2019}

Drunk and jealous in an exotic locale, he wonders: “What’s the opposite of a honeymoon?”… more

Parallel Lives

FICTION by Joseph Rathgeber

{Sep 3, 2018}

Sometimes he thinks he’s living parallel lives. He was reading about some kid, I’m sure, no younger than himself, who had died in a cave—what do they call it—spelunking? One local news channel reported that. Another said he and his friends were only exploring it. They just went in and never came out. Not until… more

Crusher

FICTION by John Oliver Hodges

{Aug 7, 2017}

Balloons lined the curb beside the dumpster there, a festive splash of color to coronate the grand opening of the new supermarket down the block. I found it cute, so cute that I was like the guy who missed the UFO over the splendor of an aurora borealis. When sunsets do fun things in Jersey,… more

Satan Stole Her Soul in Vain

CREATIVE NONFICTION by Zak Block

{May 4, 2017}

“But before we ‘made love’ (or whatever you like) we went to the laundromat, and before that, we were in a bar…”… more

Hyperbolic Doubt and Wherever After To Discover The Truth Behind That Some Timely and Malignant Demon Bad Luck

FICTION by Bretton B. Holmes

{Nov 4, 2016}

One man recounts the events surrounding his friend’s doomed relationship.… more

A Photo for Your Wallet

CREATIVE NONFICTION by Robert L Patrick

{Dec 10, 2015}

I had dreams that a boyfriend would mean an 8 x10 photograph framed and on the mantle, whether there was an actual mantle, it did not matter.… more

I Was a Stranger

GENRE NON-BINARY by Andrew Bomback

{Jun 11, 2015}

“I am almost twenty years out from that night when someone told me, in progressively hushed whispers, that he was watching me, and I wonder if I should have given myself so much distance before trying to chronicle those events… more