Derrick Austin
Derrick Austin Drag Daughter's Song Will this face, which isn’t my face, ever bring me fame? From my mother’s mug I learned my own. Praise her imagination. God save the [...]
Jeff Whitney
Jeff Whitney "Give Him His Glasses, He Can't See Without His Glasses" In God Class we made two lists: Reasons People Should and Reasons They Shouldn’t. It was a good [...]
Erin Carlyle
Erin Carlyle Black Peaches Flies in the summer don’t have to mean death like in a still life. Picture me as a child riding my Huffy—pink and gold, down the [...]
Allegra Solomon
Allegra Solomon True Blue People liked being friends with Alexandria because she loved to shut the fuck up. This is what she always told Nikita—that was the difference between the [...]
Sean Towey
Sean Towey Gloom of Night Tiff’s jeep was a tin can on wheels. There was a heater, but the air barely got warm. Cheap fans had been bolted into the [...]
Graham Marema
Graham Marema Songwood I. Grandaddy Dies In one story, Grandaddy dies. In this story, on your way to Songwood, you’ll see a road sign with my name on it. It’s [...]
Charlotte Stevenson
Charlotte Stevenson The Molt It was, but it wasn’t. All the details were there—the undulating texture of brown, segmented skin, and needle-sharp, serrated forearms—but this was not actually a mantid, [...]
Jody Keisner
Jody Keisner Surprise! You're Adopted After David Shields, “42 Tattoos” When a woman caresses her belly during the final months of pregnancy, her fetus reaches for the uterine wall, as [...]
Amy Bagwell
Amy Bagwell any children? my grandmother never drove or rode escalators she wasn’t ready when we say ready or not here I come it’s the I (grammatically) not hiders who [...]
Mitchell Jacobs
Mitchell Jacobs My Own Private New Hampshire I rented a room 53 miles west of Venus so I could be with my college boyfriend who dumped me immediately. He lived [...]