Fiction

Fiction
The Tomb

a poem

Sep 27, 2017
Fiction | Short Story
Defenestrated

A typewriter in a free fall accelerates at nine point eight meters per second squared.

Sep 25, 2017
Fiction | Short Story
Madame X

Your mom took my hand there and then and prayed, ​Lord Jesus, please heal James of his homosexual desires.

Sep 22, 2017
Fiction | Short Story
Yusuf’s Wife

Yusuf’s Wife by Karen English Shemsia is standing at the kitchen window watching her son, Ali, play basketball with the boy next door. Coley Bunch. Coley Bunch is a thick set boy with a short neck and dull pit bull eyes that imply some kind of pending, unbridled meanness when he grows into his future […]

Sep 16, 2017
Fiction | Short Story
Tiny personal victory

No matter the place, the high stools were always the best seating spot

Sep 16, 2017
Fiction | Short Story
Black Diamond

“I didn’t have to read the papers to know who he was.”

Sep 15, 2017
Fiction | Short Story
Necrophiliacs

We knew the things the Yale boys said about us, as if we were zombies. Still, we sold them our drugs.

Aug 25, 2017
Fiction | Short Story
A story with meteor shower

“About a thousand years from now, it seems the Earth will hit this comet with its thick tail”, he told her. “But we won’t be here anymore”, she answered. “Oh yes, we’ll be in the comet’s tail, as stardust”, he said.

Aug 22, 2017
Fiction
The Master of the Air

She was deadweight in his arms.

Aug 17, 2017
Fiction | From the Archives of
in other shadows unborn

excerpts from a Samuel Beckett fantasia

Aug 17, 2017