Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Short Fiction

Self-Portrait with Side Effects

Lucas Thornton

Ten years from now, I will be thirty-one. I picture this future person as someone who clambers out of bed every morning, wearing only boxers. His joints are stiff, and his newly-wedded wife will hea ...  [+]

Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction

Tied Down

Maia Sichitiu

When Gary asked politely if she wanted him to tie her to the bedposts that night, Sybil politely declined. Polite, polite, polite - she was sick of it, the way he always asked when it was a nightly ...  [+]

Poetry
Short Fiction

The Timefang's Prowl

Renton Christensen

‘Getting old', Vyncor thought, ‘has been my worst decision yet'. He stretched and felt each of the gnarled knots of pain that ran through his back and neck, twisted up like tangled fishing lines. He ...  [+]

Short Fiction

A New Resident to Darkness

Vanshika Ghai

"The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you."
― Rainer Maria Rilke

I sit in front of him watching him like the painting that hangs in a ...  [+]

Poetry
Short Fiction

Falling

Aidan Hardy

Close your eyes...

Be in the moment...

Breathe in and out...

Feel the air against your body...

Just take it all in...

Keep breathing...

Stay calm...
...  [+]

Short Fiction

Origami

Elizabeth Bryan

The boy is obsessed with origami, his mother tells her friends. He sits at the kitchen table for hours at a time, folding and pressing and creasing and fitting. Microscopic tucks and pleats – tiny ...  [+]

Creative Nonfiction

Hypochondria

Elizabeth Bryan

I'm a hypochondriac.
Although wouldn't it be just like a hypochondriac to try and diagnose themselves as a hypochondriac? A medical and philosophical conundrum, to say the least.
My dread of ...  [+]

Short Fiction

The Fucking Jasper

Freya Emery

"Where the hell are we going anyway?" Cynthia asks Jess in a stern tone.
We've been on the road for several hours, stuck in Jess's mini cooper listening to nothing but Harry Styles and Miley ...  [+]

Poetry

love drum

Vivien Cheng

Feel the pain the yearning the disbelief at promise of paradise
This is love, it is strong and ...  [+]

Poetry
Short Fiction

Rock Candy Sweetness

Mia Maxwell

My bloodless white fingers grasped my thighs, squeezing away like Sunday lemonade. I gasped, letting my head fall back. I thumbed the lining of my shorts, finding a loose thread and pulling hard. No ...  [+]