The Feejee Mermaid Falls to Earth by Heather Diamond Look at this strange creature, she says. My elderly mother is leaning over one of the potted rosebushes she keeps on her deck to protect them from the deer. I think it’s some kind of frog. She points at a pinkish...
Patroness by Lauren Barbato The patronesses are throwing a party for Petronilla, who’s spent the last three months in rehab recovering from an eating disorder. It was a hasty starvation. Petronilla had gone and locked herself up in her father’s attic for eight days....
A Healing by August Evans The student steered the Great Writer down the floors of the university parking garage, past a booth where she inserted a white ticket into a mouth that spit it back into her hand, under a wooden arm as it rose, and onto a wide, black road...
Brian the Lion Hunter by John Oliver Hodges Brian built a chicken coop in Hornville and stocked his coop with chickens, but the Hornville wives complained of the smell. Worse than the chickens were the dogs. They barked and whinnied and fussed while Brian and Natalie...
214 West Euclid Ave by Madeline Vosch His cigarettes were on the floor so I took them. I went to the backyard. Once, last winter, I shoveled snow into the carton and put it back next to where he was sleeping on the couch. That day, it was hot and there wasn’t even a...
Rift by Robert Kostuck The chronometer reads seventy-two hours into a one hundred fifty-three hour Plutonian day—six o’clock in the morning Luna time. Our sailboat Moth anchored one hundred ninety-four kilometers roughly SSE from the edge of the mountains. I close the...
