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You Know Better but I Know You by Liz Matthews

August 16, 2022

I wanted to be dizzy, to have the feeling we had after rolling down your backyard hill and landing in a leaf pile.

August 9, 2022

Every time I thought about Analise, I pictured them putting on Chapstick, in slow-motion.

August 2, 2022

We wear Saran Wrap cloaks because real invisibility cloaks are too expensive.

August 1, 2022

You stood for a second—my slack-jawed baby brother, looking up at me just before a river raged between us.

July 26, 2022

Last week, the office photocopier gained sentience.

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.