BABYTRON by Felicity Billings
I am on an emergency and ultimately fruitless run for 30x34 chinos, BabyTron blasting, coming to a full and complete stop before every right on red. My car sports a safety yellow “please be...
DIARY OF A REMEMBERER by Joshua Best
I’ve been trying to come up with something. Ideas have flitted by but passion has been attached to not a single one of them. My mind, my heart, everything in and about me is...
A WALK AROUND THE BLOCK by Samira Seifi
I had hardly lured myself into getting out of the house that day. It seemed all too difficult, and having a doorman did not help. It was just adding to my anxiety of getting...
ONE LESS PLATE by Bita Kaheh
Most people have dreamt at least once in their life of losing a tooth. In my country, Iran, people take it as an omen of the imminent death of a family member. I haven’t...
FAIRY TRAP by Serenity Patterson
Elaine had been captured. She was left behind on a web, her wings broken when she was pried off. Now she sat on a table under a glass like a bug. The room around...
THE NEW LIFE OF RAYMOND BLACK by Carl Nord
Old slippers, those repugnant slippers worn by Agnes, the building manager slowly and methodically shuffled down the hallway. I could hear ‘em scratching along from down the hall. I was sitting in my room...
SINCERELY, YOUR STRANGER by Aija White
It’s been thirty minutes, a long arduous, thirty minutes. We tried simply opening the door, which didn’t work. Then, we tried to break the windows and sadly, our collective upper body strength did...
APRIL HURRICANE by Dylan Ulin
April would blow over the Iowa prairies when the boxing match called spring came around. The match was Jack Frost vs. Blooming Spring. They would clash on who gets the dominant climate, snow and...
THE POOL HALL by Todd Fabyanic
Jason’s currency was low, and he needed to level up if he was going to take it to the next level. Nickel & dimming it at the entry-level tables would not make the cut...
DR. WHO ON CRACK by Tristan Dupasquier
Joe couldn’t tell what time it was. He had been in here (the hospital?) for a couple of days now. There are no windows. The lack of sunlight has troubled him, the static coming...