The Checkout Guy at the Co-Op by Alice Duggan There’s something alert in the air between us. His keystrokes show me her name still listed a long-time member I get her discount. His jokes are poised at appropriate distance, he might be flirting or could this be a...
Coffee in Bed by Hannah Gilham He takes his skin off to sleep, and, well, last night I wore it. Just around the house of course. It’s not weird if you’re in love. None of it’s weird. The conjoining of two bodies. The peeling away of each others’ eyelids, licking the...
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...
