The Elm by Chris Campanioni This is a story that doesn’t end well. It doesn’t begin well either. I received the first suicide letter in 2014. Maybe it was a year earlier. Maybe it was 2015. You hardly know me, the notes often began, but I feel as if I know you...
The Search Function by Adrienne Brock Sam had asked what my favorite subject in school had been one night in our bed. “History,” I said. “Only it wasn’t called that. It was always ‘social studies’ or ‘civics.’” He was shocked. Genuinely shocked. But I do. I...
Fire and Milk by Andrew Rhodes The Civil War was a very frightening event. It was the first ancient modern war of our time, and those involved experienced shortages of foods like milk. Some of the soldiers had nothing to their names but their guns and the...
Arms by Matt Rowan” Everything in the school was normal from the outside. It was normal on the inside, too. There were just a few subtle differences distinguishing it from most schools you’ve probably seen. And one major difference. It’s that they kept...
Little Switzerland by Ian Walters Now Jenny is chanting, not out loud, chanting in her head, chanting for the last half hour. Rain’s all right, rain’s all right. She follows the road up into the cloud and within minutes the dash is muddy and her Dijon-yellow...
I Turned Out Pretty Good by Sean Gill I was thinking about raising a kid, but I figured I’d better try a dog first in case I bungled it so I’d only spoil an animal instead of a human being. I didn’t want to read any books on the matter, because I didn’t want to...
