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 ...  [+]

Poetry
Short Fiction

Forgotten Eyes

Aiden Jones

Mallory Johnson lived in the suburbs behind a white picket fence and a dark pine door. Her husband called her "Mal" when he trudged in late on the weekends, drunk and tired. David Smith was a working ...  [+]

Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction

A Tale of Three Friends

Miriam Arce

A long time ago, in a lonely forest, lived three unlucky friends.

Vanished into the land of the lost souls, they were outcasts left to perish—left with nothing but regret and anguish.

It ...  [+]

Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction