Notice of Proposed Land Use Action by Jennifer Fliss This is a notice to tell you that you will be removed from your house in sixty days. We understand it is the multi-generational home of your family, that your childhood heights and your mother’s childhood heights...
Pacifica Interviews: Brit Bennett by Brit Bennett/Judy T. Oldfield Brit Bennett is a novelist and essayist. Her debut book, The Mothers, centers on a young woman from a tight-knit church community who has an abortion. Interspersed throughout, the elderly women of the...
Wishbone by Georgene Smith Goodin Burrell was dead two days before we thought about Spider. Miranda was supposed to choose Burrell’s clothes for the funeral, but she chickened out like she always did when things got tough. “I’ll do it,” I said when she called, even...
Your Man For A Prison by Peter Clarke It’s been about a year since I got into the prison selling biz. Sold my first prison to a toothless guy with family money. Said he’d use it to lock up dentists. Guy had no use for dentists. Not the first thing I’d do with a...
Hustlers by T.C. Jones Star Wars was our obsession. During the winter our neighborhood became Hoth, throughout the summer it was Tatooine. When we explored the woods and streams behind our town’s quiet streets we searched for Ewoks in the trees. One thing was for...
Guillotine by Kaj Tanaka Reading fiction submissions for the online literary magazine where I am an assistant editor, it all feels so hopeless. I’m the guy who does the second reading of our submissions—the stories our volunteer readers have already rejected. My job...
