Category Archives: Fiction

The Unlovables

{Nov 11, 2019}

I felt like kicking in the console or grabbing the steering wheel and driving us off the road, but instead I reset my thoughts on the owner of the Harvard sweatshirt.… more

One Bird In-Hand is Worth Ten in the Bush

Fiction by Michael Hammerle

{Nov 11, 2019}

My grandma was glaring at Trixie’s fixings willing her to lie in the neat bed she’d made. Pearl was lying on her back with that piece of wood in her mouth. She was dusty and had her straw bedding stuck to her in small patches, some on her underbelly. All of her paws were outstretched to the sky. She was letting the piece of wood fall from her mouth and recatching it. Trixie’s phone was face-up flat on the dining table. The phone rang and we all looked to her expecting it to be Croker. Trixie quickly silenced it. … more

Notorious Thugs

Fiction by Josh Olsen

{Nov 11, 2019}

As soon as we finished packing up our 40s, and taking our open bottles along for the ride, we were headed to the cornfields, our commute narrated by The Notorious B.I.G.… more

Mile 183

Fiction by Kari Treese

{Nov 11, 2019}

Her sigh woke us—Dad from his silent, attentive driving, and us from our screens in the backseat. … more

Two Stories

Fiction by Justin Herrmann

{Nov 11, 2019}

We’re at it again. On our weekly phone call. Me at the bottom of the world. Her, near the top.… more

Eat Fire

Fiction by Dustin M. Hoffman

{Oct 14, 2019}

I slip on the heavy gloves again and hurl that sparking, spitting, burning motherfucker into the hopper, followed by a garbage can full of thin wrappings that stoke the flames, and now the back of our truck is a flaming mouth, nice and angry. … more

August Children

Fiction by Joshua Nagle

{Oct 14, 2019}

It’s always the past we want to visit, never the future. Sure, people say they want to see what’s ahead of them, but is that really what they want? Or are they just running from the present because what they have always wanted is already gone?… more