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Call Me Verdean by Avitus B. Carle

October 27, 2023

I longed to be called Verdean, to find solace beneath the cracked bell in Philadelphia

Black Sheep Eulogy by Wendy Newbury

October 26, 2023

I like to imagine you in the sun, glowing. Your skin, black as night, and teeth porcelain against it. Did someone capture your smile in all its radiance?

The Autopsy Technician Student by Arthur Eliot Li

October 25, 2023

Accidentally, I killed a pediatric patient as a hospital nurse.

Tics by Zoe Phillips

October 25, 2023

Every morning, he’d feel as if tiny creatures were wriggling from his cheekbones, his nose scrunching lopsidedly and at random as he blinked himself into consciousness.

Tynan – YELLOW: /ˈjɛləʊ/ by L. Dacre Tynan

October 24, 2023

It’s now that I feel joy for the yellow morning.

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
Inspiration is a foggy fellow, emerging from nothing, dissipating into nothing, answering to nothing.
Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
Saturation by Claire Oleson
I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.