Browsing Category Fiction & Poetry

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  Poems

  Retired Architecture

  father / dreams of / the fountain / he visits / he stays / he looks into its center / thinks he sees a world

  By Zuzanna Juszkiewicz
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  Fiction

  Bad Sex: Microfictions

  "The hooker said her name was Solace, which was exactly what he needed after the heartwreck of the last six months."

  By Jonathan Papernick
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  Poems

  Rappelling

  My mother finds out about the child I did not have from Facebook. This is how regret arrives: in the arms of machines.

  By Emily O'Neill
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  Fiction

  Formerly Burma

  "Where’s a worse location for a problem than one’s own head?"

  By Tom Molanphy
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  Poems

  The Topography of

  The you in a stranger’s bed, / closing your eyes once / thinking only ocean.

  By Keegan Lester
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  Fiction

  On the Terror Traditionally Associated with Developing Real Property

  He’d planted his daughters there, but they’d borne no fruit. He called it a farm though that was the exact thing is wasn’t.

  By David Connerly Nahm
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  Poems

  Three Poems

  A woman plants / my name in her bone / but will not tell me / when rain is coming

  By Hafizah Geter
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  Poems

  IRL: A Third Excerpt

  One night she steals / an onion from one / of the nuns tells me it’s / the sweetest thing she ever / tasted.

  By Tommy Pico
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  Fiction

  Pastrami

  "She touched a kneecap, that foreign object. Yes, she said, remembering. You."

  By Madeline Stevens
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  Poems

  IRL: A Second Excerpt

  feasting on boys ideas / and language and chips / of technology. Sometimes / real food.

  By Tommy Pico
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  Poems

  Owl Contemplating a Frisbee

  if you journey home by nightlight consider / how much the beak’s wielded innocence can rend and tear

  By Rich Ives
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  Poems

  IRL: An Excerpt

  Who deserves yr story? / Not all stories. Not my story / my lol truth not life of live-/ lihood or food.

  By Tommy Pico