Fictional 3/5

Dec 15, 20228 min read

[Fiction] Floodplain and High-Hazard Zone Regulations

By Isabel Yacura They found the body in the creek when the tide went out. They called it a creek on the island, anyway—it was more like a...

Dec 15, 202216 min read

[Fiction] Tastes of Freedom

By Andréa Ferrell Gannon Claire didn’t want Milo tagging along; he was too old, too quiet, his face too sun damaged, his lips too fleshy....

Dec 15, 202212 min read

[Fiction] Jellyfish Summer

by Veronica Good You open the first day of summer like a book. The first contact with the crashing waves outside your beach house makes...

Nov 29, 20225 min read

[Fiction] Situation on National Highway 52

By Ziaul Moid Khan The tires of my polar white Renault Duster screeched before coming to an abrupt halt on National Highway 52. I had...

Oct 18, 20224 min read

[Fiction] The Age of Knowing

by Lukas Tallent The first time they did it as husband and wife was at night in the shower of her cousin’s condo in Panama City Beach....

Aug 30, 202212 min read

[Fiction] Saving Face

By Kathryn E. McGee I don’t recognize him at first, not until he says my name. “Peach?” My boyfriend, Kyle, is seated and waiting in the...

Jul 1, 202219 min read

[Fiction] Curio Bay

by John Yunker I held up my arm in front of a woman coming toward me like an early morning mall walker, in Nikes, purple leggings, a pink...

Jul 1, 202217 min read

[Fiction] Inlander

by Oliver Brennan Donna sits as upright as she can, helped by the hospital bed’s automatic lift. She stares at the television above the...

Jul 1, 20226 min read

[Fiction] Keziah and the Whale

by Krista Beucler “Daddy is taking us to Hawaii,” Mom tells Keziah. She uses the bright voice she saves for talking to children, but...

Jul 1, 202217 min read

[Fiction] Rock Bottom

by Laurie Rockenbeck Bob’s daydreams alternated between finding Suzi dead in their bed, choked on her own vomit, and coming home to her...

Jun 14, 20229 min read

[Fiction] How to Make Light Come

by Juniper Soledad is making out with my dead body on a bed of sand. Paper seagulls dangle from the ceiling. A video camera is set-up on...

May 3, 20227 min read

[Fiction] Laguna

by Matthew Johnson Breath in. Breath out. The blue mask covering Cassie’s mouth and nose rose and swelled like foam, trapping in her...

Mar 22, 20222 min read

[Fiction] Seafoam

by Megan Jauregui Eccles When I sold my hair to save my sister, I thought she’d understand. A mermaid’s magic is in her hair. It was all...

Dec 14, 202111 min read

[Fiction] U-Haul

by Ioannis Argiris “Damn. Jimmy’s got to keep this shit on the low,” Jules says. The U-Haul truck’s suspension seems lower than what he...

Dec 14, 20217 min read

[Fiction] Pool #31

By Peter Steinfeld We’d gotten everything: cake, flowers, presents, balloons… The cards somehow had slipped my mind. I searched before...

Dec 14, 202117 min read

[Fiction] All That Glitters

by Wendy Maxon Sara used to love the pastel seascape she’d painted on her curbside mailbox, but today its red plastic flag beckoned like...

Dec 14, 202115 min read

[Fiction] Stool Pigeon

By Brian Asman So the other weird thing about Bruno Harbeck’s bar was he had this pigeon. It sat on a stool next to a vintage...

Dec 14, 202118 min read

[Fiction] Yes, Virginia

by Gary Grace I went to visit Mam every Wednesday evening in the home. Ultimately it was my decision. Her and Dad hadn’t spoken in years....

Dec 14, 20218 min read

[Fiction] Where it Grows

by Megan Jauregui Eccles “Grow yourself a boyfriend,” the box said. How easy it would be. Plant the seed six inches below the soil,...

Jul 16, 202118 min read

[Fiction] The Jetty by Leanne Phillips

TW: suicide, death By Leanne Phillips This afternoon, the sky reminds me of a sky I knew one hundred years ago. I reveled in cold winter...

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