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halloween ritual by Lip Manegio

March 22, 2021

& listen, i’ll admit, i / wanted / the stigmata, the gentle puncture.

Nicer than a Gold Watch and Easier to Get, Too by Stephen Kyo Kaczmarek

March 22, 2021

Poor Mr. Hatch, the maintenance and groundskeeping man. What luck, the apocalypse happened on mowing day, and he moved even slower than zombies.

John in Concord by Chris Sheehan

March 22, 2021

The ridge had taken on a film as though color had been pulled out of the air and pressed to the ground.

Be Mine by David Desjardins

March 22, 2021

Was there comfort in that work, Frank wondered? Torment? Exactly what was the inheritance he had received from this stranger?

Poky’s Levitating Grandmother by Jonathan Baker

March 22, 2021

I imagined he liked me, but the truth is I have no idea. Our friendship was born of necessity rather than mutual admiration.

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.