Seek Shelter Immediately by Jeremy Griffin On the Weather Channel app, the storms appeared as an orange and red comet streaking across the Carolinas. They followed in the wake of Hurricane Florence, which had stalled over the East Coast days earlier before being...
The Kids Are Cute AF Though by Dan Tremaglio A perfect cat dad and top-rated uncle, you’re well on your way to making a subpar father. It’s three in the morning and your week-old daughter sounds like an eagle hunting a rodent the size of your brain in an electric...
The Opposite of Sin by Jad Josey She’d walked past him moments before backing over the man. She was refreshing her timeline, glancing right and left on the way to her car. The man had leered at her, his gaze scraping the length of her body. The bridge of his nose was...
The Mermaids’ Smoke Rings by Becca Rose Hall For Aimee Bender Loneliness, and the smell of tobacco cutting through sea brine, drew the sailors straight towards the mermaids’ smoke rings. Be careful, cried the ship’s boy, spying the rocks from the crow’s...
12:12 by Justin Jude Carroll Flint is rarer than floss. I’ve learned to live without flame but sometimes I’ll scramble to the valley floor and find a fall of light limbs. My fires are anemic and balletic, swooping in arcs toward the cave roof and nearly snuffing...
Hank the Tank by Tom Houseman Tyler sits across from me, holding a mozzarella stick up between two fingers. He’s not eating it, just picking the bread crumbs off and examining the exposed cheese. “Are you going to actually eat that?” I ask. We’re at the Mayflower...
