If you’re going to be a serious writer, you MUST read widely outside your “genre.” Classics, the ancient Greeks, poetry, experimental stuff. Everything, all the time. That way you’re not just regurgitating what other writers in your lane are doing.… More
Dog
FLASH FICTION by Chris DoddsEasier to be chosen than to choose. Jenni knows this. She pulls us through the day on an invisible leash—her grandmother’s birthday, a trailer park, a couch that looks like an orange muppet—until there’s no edges left.… More
Van Cleef
FICTION by Caroline GiudiceMy life involves precision. Observation. Balance. Not everyone can keep it up. That’s why they falter. That’s why they leave shaken. Because they glimpse the truth. That everything they call leisure is, in fact, duty. To live well is to work without end.… More
The Challenger
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Andrew BertainaLike my first public memory, which is probably of The Challenger exploding and not of the time that I saw Lindsay Farr’s vagina in eighth grade, which was public but not the sort of thing that probably qualifies as “public writ large”… More
Elegy for My Cousin
FLASH NONFICTION by Jade McGregorAt your second one-year cake, you lamented the suffering you had put everyone through, but boy, had you not even started yet.… More
Another Annoyance
FLASH FICTION by Liz deBeerIt’s none of her damn business, but it’s nice she’s acting like a mother. Annoying but normal-annoying. Better than her crying alone on the couch, like a decaying potato, oozing in the darkness.… More
A Three-Act Play About My Dad: Decline and Fall of the Paper Crane Empire
FLASH NONFICTION by Edmond PangIf life had a reset button, I wish my father had beat the hell out of me.… More
Twelve Pack
FLASH NONFICTION by Iryna SomkinaI was ready to negotiate with terrorists. Or at least my boyfriend.… More
The Erotic Life of Mrs. White
FLASH FICTION by Kristen ReeceHer face glowing the ruby of the cabernet and with shame—the shame of asking, worrying about her seam, but too afraid to touch it. What if it has dried up? With a few more lessons on seduction, could it be a desert gulch in a flash flood?… More
This Little Piggy
FLASH FICTION by Brooks EgertonI held my violet fingernails up to my stubble and rhinestone stud earrings and said, I’m not exactly what most people have in mind when they hear positive male role model.… More
For a Second I Was Worried There Was No One Left to Be Jealous Of
FLASH FICTION by Devika Kaul“We weren’t right together,” he said. “She was always telling me I should be with a man, instead.”
“She thought you weren’t into women?’
“She thought no man could feel real love for a woman.”… More
