At six, still raining, sky gray as sand, he walked along the shipyards. Stacks of rusty pots, boats up on stands, messy gravel parking lots. He passed puddles, but none big enough to demand his attention. None could hold a crab, much less a ship.… More
The Bull Pen
FLASH FICTION by Scott T. HutchisonBig time baseball pitchers pose in mirrors, thinking they’re all sporting fairly large and attractive balls. But baseball is silly. My daddy has a pair of dried-out bull dangles on his truck hitch, and I’m not talking stupid rubber impostors.… More
Owned Something
FLASH NONFICTION by AndreWe had been together for six years before I semi ended things and moved up north. I used the semi because I rarely truly close a chapter. I usually leave a hope, a possibility, a kindle before I am never seen again.… More
All Hackers Go To Hell
FICTION by Charley PaxosYou can kill everything in the game, an entire universe of things to murder, and the few things that you can’t kill, you can bring to life with cheat codes and then kill. Intense violence, blood and gore, Graphic Depictions of Harm has it all.… More
Squared to the Puck
FICTION by Gary James ErwinA man shouldn’t have to apologize for the smell of his own equipment or for what he tried to do to stay in shape.… More
The Elevator
FICTION by Kevin LoughrinExcept it’s not the light that causes me pain. It’s the darkness. I can hardly step out in the sun at all anymore, let alone stare at it. Cancer. The sun hates us, you know.… More
Richard Lange
BULL Interview by Frank ReardonIf 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
