by Madeleine Armstrong | Mar 3, 2025 | Fiction
Bass vibrates through the toilet door. My stomach roils. I put a hand on the clammy mirror, fighting the urge to vomit onto the floor. Deep breaths. Jesus, it’s hot. Where am I, anyway? “Excuse me, love,” a woman shouts. She nudges me aside, nearly spearing my foot...
by Satori Good | Mar 3, 2025 | Fiction
He eats for breakfast broken concrete, whale-gray, in the dregs of mineral water. His tooth snaps off. I mash my own cereal, frosted wheat, in the blue ceramic bowl that came with the house. The house was a fixer-upper. Mold in the grout. Jacketed wires grew like tree...
by RP Singletary | Mar 3, 2025 | Fiction
Odd brittles of black. Smeared on back of hand. A bug — gnat, mosquito, fly? – what shortly ago working a wonder to avoid capture. Now sat where. Fescue Rodham sat alone the first of a long morning in a longer window of time, when Fennel Shankley would’ve...
by William Cass | Mar 3, 2025 | Fiction
My father was long gone and I was an only child, so it was left to me to clean out my mother’s house after she passed away. I got rid of the majority of her things in an estate sale, donated almost everything else to Goodwill, then just had a few boxes of her...
by Justene Musin | Mar 3, 2025 | Fiction
At first, it was timid like tissue paper. Our connection. Unsure, slight. Vulnerable. It became more. Strengthened into cardboard. Sturdy. But bendable. Prone to rips. A few months later, we developed into paper mâché. Glued together. Tight. ...
