Dogs of War by Jason Arment The trucks, three Humvees and a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP), trundled up the main access route and through the “gate”—guard posts on each side of the road. No one came out to signal us forward. When the lead Humvee approached the...
Feral by Christina Rivera Cogswell The surgeon finished his description of the triple heart bypass procedure, “So, do you have any questions?” “My family knows me for being tough,” my father said. “Don’t put any soft spots in my heart okay?” Not even six Valium could...
Five Percent by Jesse Salvo It was just getting to be near around the end of Q3 when I first became aware that I was shrinking. No, that is not quite right. Not shrinking as you understand it. Not shrinking as a natural part of the aging process—hunch of the back and...
The Field Party #61 by Darren C. Demaree to an empty sky ohio looks like a one-sided war the people the people crashing down into the land with such force that they cannot hold on to any of the easier years i don’t want to talk about it it’s all i’m asked about it’s...
Fear of Abundance by CL Young every day I try to find a new reasonfor you to un-die today Mathias is sleeping in the other roomwith half a cantaloupe from the storewaiting on the kitchen counter your sister asks if time has been dilatingin larger and larger dilations...
Brennan, by Matthew Kilbane It’s called contouringyou tell me, what you’re doing to your cheekbones in our parent’s bathroom mirror, in wreathesof shower steam the slattedsunlight’s soaking up with jewels, a whole cosmos coming magically to the morning’s orderunder...
