Bizzy Coy The Un-alivers There was a deep and narrow gorge in upstate New York where all the millennials came to kill themselves. It started with one man who smashed [...]

Nicholas Claro Housekeeping On the phone she said her hotel might be better. “I can’t do the house,” she said. “It’s too intimate and familiar. I left a key at [...]

Audrey Coldwell Egg There was a full-grown woman in my omelette today. I hadn’t been expecting her. Hadn’t wanted any more protein for breakfast than a cooked yolk or two—if [...]

Shruti Goel Zari The gauzy wedding mandaps, laden by the sea, shimmered like they would in a glossy magazine. The sunlight bounced off every metallic surface possible—bangles, chair backs, even [...]

Amanda Gaines To Flame Your sister has killed you six times. Before she resorted to unnecessary violence, she handled you gently. Placed you on her water-ringed windowsill on fourteen separate [...]

Mish Gajewski-Zambataro woman in the reservoir we’d thought we’d found a corpse when we came upon her floating. we thought, maybe this is the waitress who’d disappeared last month from [...]

Flash Flood Winner—Atzaed Arreola translated by Rachel Whalen Página en blanco Fue a las 19:30 horas cuando los agentes del Ministerio Público encontraron una Lap topamordazada con una cinta roji-negra [...]

Fighting Talk Your strategy to win the crowd over with a dazzling display of fancy footwork and lightning-quick jabs has changed, just this second: now it’s close your eyes tight [...]

Tara Isabel Zambrano Slumdog Wives      Let’s face it—we’re not all that beautiful, we have bad postures due to heavy lifting at the construction sites, sleeping at odd angles in [...]

Tolu Ogunlesi Harbinger There are icicles that form on the surface of oceans, translucent teeth putting roots down in the submerged mouth of God. There is ice—forbidding, jagged, sentient—that can [...]