Boogie Town

Boogie Town by Will Stanier gullible people walking everywhere.mulch piled in the street, on the sidewalk. me, I was staring at the bicycle;silver and dangerous, a lure of fate,all Devil-may-care in my bedclothes. white veil of grime the soap bar trails in the tub....

Extremes of Human Endurance

Extremes of Human Endurance by Rebecca Chekouras Yellow sunlight crests the towering main gate and filters through the high branches of the acacia tree outside our night house. With little else to do, I laze in my nest bed, the only one awake; sole witness to the...

Lifespan of the Fathead Minnow

Lifespan of the Fathead Minnow by Caitlin Rae Taylor When she takes the folded brochure out of her canvas bag, I know I’m fucked. The brochure, though creased and veined with white age lines, is a fire of blues and magentas, its color pieced together by chromic...

Elfland

Elfland by T.S. McAdams Men and dogs do foolish things. Bringing a stripper home to see the hole was a foolish thing. It was the girl from the billboard Donny liked, with soft-looking hair and bare shoulders cut off by the bottom of the sign. Donny used to drive by...