The Descendants of Monsters by Severin Wiggenhorn “What’s going to happen to the alligators after you implant the electrodes?” We’d just finished family dinner the night before the road trip. Whatever Dad was studying this time, his research always involved...
Collapsing Intimacies by Edidiong Uzoma Essien In the last three years, Eka has only been intimate with two men. One is a pattern cutter at the garment factory that employs her, the other, an expat who doesn’t seem to be employed but lives like a minor monarch, rents...
In Your Life You Will Meet Many Familiars by David Borofka “…your life, somewhere far behind you…” —Danusha Laméris, “Fictional Characters” The cat—she assumed it was a cat because she never really saw it, not then—darted across the road...
First Light by Jason Allen We crossed the river in the rainy haze of my headlights, with the wipers swishing on high. Traffic in the opposite lanes of the Burnside Bridge kicked up clouds of mist and passed by distorted and vague, as though my truck windows had all...
Good Neighbors by Jill Mceldowney I ask the sky for a miracle and the sky sends me pigeons sends me letters. Come home said the letters and I know a miracle is only a miracle after...
