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Mountain Rats by E.G. Rand

September 4, 2020

The beast’s deep-set eyes were damaged, the retinas swirling white instead of pink.

I Didn’t Know What to Say, So I Just Said Thanks by David Joseph

September 4, 2020

You could fool someone into thinking you knew what you were doing if you did it with certainty.

Leshko’s: Cold Pierogies, Warm Beer, Wish You Were Here by Deborah Johnstone

September 3, 2020

” … the fluorescent lights that cast each person as a putrefied replica of humanity – a Madame Tussaud-like live works series in the process of decay.”

Killing Flies by Bill Weatherford

September 3, 2020

By the time he returned, the shooing had gotten more serious and her jaw showed gunslinger intent.

Roll for Love by Cidney Mayes

March 14, 2020

She holds the dice up to me. “For good luck?”

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.