Poetry
Creative Nonfiction

A Crappy Story for a Change

Bruce Decker

It’s 7:37pm, and I am standing on the arrow pointing the direction to shop in the aisle at Walmart. It smells like cleaner and cookies from the surrounding aisles. In my right hand I hold nothing ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

ANGELS

Amy Griffin

I used to be scared of angels and the way they keep records of your thoughts, because there's things they know that I'd be unequivocally ashamed of. But at length I've come to the conclusion that all ... [+]

Short Fiction

Weatherby's Justice

Samuel Shumway

I was passing through the alley behind the grocery store when I heard the shouts coming from behind the yellow row of dumpsters. I was curious, and so I stopped and leaned my bike up against the back ... [+]

Poetry

Hades

Makenna Smith

The pomegranate seeds you offered
turned me inside out.
My fibrous insides turned against ... [+]

Short Fiction
Poetry
Short Fiction

Half an Hour

Hayden Underwood

The nurse left work at five o'clock. She usually left around 4:30 and if she hadn’t taken that extra half an hour, perhaps the tragedy could have been avoided.
Kristie’s day was fairly normal ... [+]

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Short Fiction

The House of Escher

Santiago Blanco Torres

I arrived unannounced. The Alchemist’s house was dark and crowded with ornaments. “Tools” the man corrected as we entered deeper into the mansion. As I sat in my new room I marveled at this ... [+]

Poetry
Short Fiction

The Butterfly Monarch

Hyrum Jones

Day 1
My body's been changing recently; now I'm king of the world. It's been a crazy morning.
Let’s start from yesterday. Yesterday I was comfortably wrapped in a dangle-bed eagerly ... [+]