Jeffrey Amos Witness Trees The Town Charter. The town of Ada, Texas was founded in the shade of an apple tree on August 15th, 1887, when Arthur Gentry, Caleb Mills, [...]

Jeff McLaughlin Safe There was the writing spider poised ominously over the back door. There was the textured, colorless snakeskin coiled beside the front sidewalk, papery to the touch, it [...]

Christie Tate Where's the Beef?: Hamburgers, Disordered Eating, and the Lone Star State During a lull in a group therapy session one morning, Jessica turned to our therapist and said, [...]

Zach Miko Zach and the Beanstalk The first time I realized someone was afraid of me was at a 7th grade dance. Some of the popular kids had started dating [...]

Marina Ramil Santo Malo, or Patronage of the Lost When Constanza is under the covers, scenes of fowl being plucked alive play out behind her eyes. It’s not carnivore’s guilt; [...]

Maybe Messiness is the Answer: An Interview with Zoë Bossiere Zoë Bossiere (they/she) is writer from Tucson, Arizona. They are the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, [...]

Alison C. Powell A Reluctant Inventory: Six Lots to be Sold After My Mother Died 1. Item #685: Three Boxes Costume Jewelry—c. 1933-2022 Ivory, Bakelite, Paste. I am wrist-deep in [...]

Marie Goyette The Destruction of Jerry As I stepped outside the school, a cold wind whipped around the corner and entered my unzipped coat, filling its loose folds like a [...]

Melissa Darcey Hall The Body is a Hungry Beast Mira didn’t know just how easy it was to fake an exorcism until she met Katja. Sure, there was a learning [...]

Stella Wong ship in a bottle janet fish is forfinding your wishes at the bottom of a wineglass. a win, findinga snow-furred miracle (freestanding house) in midtown manhattan,walking goldilocks-like into [...]

Contracts Are Dangerous: An Interview with Gabino Iglesias Interview conducted by Jonathan Louis Duckworth, in-person, during the 2022 StokerCon Convention for horror writers in Denver, Colorado. The following is an [...]