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Guttering Flame on a Tennessee Afternoon by Justin Aoba

October 23, 2023

I held the world in perfect stillness within the cold of my hands.

October 18, 2023

Most people confuse comfort with happiness.

October 17, 2023

It is raining and the clouds have no order or edge. I want like a disembodied song.

October 17, 2023

Nominated for Best of the Net

October 11, 2023

Breathing deep, Julio entered the painting, savoring a moment of escape and transformation.

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.