2 Flash Fictions by S.S. Mandani Merman Tossing blueberries on his coffee table, Kamran saw signs everywhere. They made an arrow pointing to his bedroom. He took this to mean he should go to sleep early. The next day was the most productive of his life. From...
All The World Isn’t Falling by R.S. Powers Siv’s a motherfucking rockstar. Her band’s very first show of the Mainland tour, at least ten cities with a chance to end in Hong Kong, is happening as dusk dies just outside Shanghai’s art district in a converted...
3 Flash Fictions by Lea Page The Bees Come at Night I sit up in bed when we see headlights coming down the road—a truck of some kind. We don’t get many visitors this way. Cows summer here, but mid-May is early. If it is cows, we’ll need to get up and fix the...
A Holy Union by Simi Monheit From Contest Judge Peter Mountford: “Simi Monheit’s A Holy Union was a fantastic piece of slow-burn erotica – placing the reader fully within the character’s experience that we lose connection with everything outside the...
Photosynthesis by Jason Hardung The automated voice on the other end says, “burlywood.” This is my color! My heart pounds like I won something. Then I remember who I called and my heart pounds even harder. A few weeks ago, I was let out on bond. The state assigned me...
Can We Be Difficult Together? by Anna McCarthy The first sign of weirdness among the nine- and ten-year-olds came when the adults were in a meeting. Thorndon Lofts is a cohousing community, so we have a lot of meetings. And because we’re a cohousing community for...
