A queer Lovecraftian love story
Fiction
Coffee Love and Curly Fries
Through a spiraling structure and stream of consciousness-style prose, a teenage boy grapples with his understanding of masculinity, love, and himself.
The Growth of a Nation
A speech on the greatest threat facing our country.
Mudman
Mudman follows a young man temporarily called Mickey attempting to escape his past and identity. But the past has a way of catching up, and in Mickey’s case, it may be particularly muddy…
That Old Serpent
In this satirical, post-industrial twist on the classic “Faustian bargain”, a young voice actor struggles to get her career off the ground while her missing boyfriend, a slow-witted careerist, unexpectedly lands a job buying souls for the Devil.
A Kinder, Gentler Impaler
Substance is immaterial. Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula, seeks an image makeover that appeals to mainstream society.
Remedial Class 1D
A short story about a classroom full of children whose heads explode when they are contradicted, and a teacher trying desperately to keep that from happening.
The Fantasy Truck
A man watches the world from his parking lot ticket booth, when one day a nationally syndicated television show arrives to deliver someone’s greatest fantasy: a ping pong table!
Saturn Devouring His Son
Two office workers at a tech company undergo an experimental procedure to eliminate hunger, and find themselves grappling with a hunger of a different kind.
The Bright Horses
“The Bright Horses” is a dystopian short story about a marshal returning a fugitive to Washington, D.C. Taking place on an Earth devastated by a cosmic event, the characters must sift through their grief for hope, justice, and connection. Will they find purpose in myth? Will they find it in laws and governments? Or does a desolated world leave us with nothing but hunger?
The Separation for Her Infirmity
Existential shenanigans in a maternity ward
The Horny Castrato
An orphan whose testicles never dropped is adopted by nuns. He pursues a musical career in Austria and New York but only progresses so far.
Jefferson Davis the Nth
Sublimation: to change the form, but not the essence. (Merriam Webster)
When we received this piece, we were told “Jefferson Davis the Nth” is a story about the sublimation of racism in the New South. It seemed a shame to have the word go to waste, so here it is presented to you along this short piece of fiction.
Lora Lee Broke Up With The Ocean
A short story about connections and romanticized ideas of people, about bodies, of water and otherwise, about understanding and what it consists of.
Detachment Takes All Of You
A man’s work life balance takes an interesting toll on his body.
A Perfect Storm
When weather reporter Ash Patel-Brown sets the unlikely precedent of making accurate weather predictions, people get confused and angry. Some are furious she’s breaking from an age old tradition, others are upset that they’ve made their lives more predictable and boring. Chaos ensues.
Are we still talking about the weather?
Carousel
A story about how people come in and out of our lives in both significant and insignificant ways. We hear this story told from three perspectives: one of a bus driver, and both members of a young couple.
Napoleon
A young boy wakes up one day to find that everything he touches turns into Napoleon.
Persian Looney Tunes
Torn between the constraints of old tradition and the radical modernism in a box set of Looney Tunes dvd’s brought to him by a cousin visiting from Miami, Amir reconciles the tension of his background within intransigent, punk art.
Deep Dive
How did I end up sitting across from an ostrich who asks too many questions? It’s Friday Funday!
We Can Forget It For You
An experimental fiction story laid out as a medical form for memory erasure, filled out by a person who has just lost their husband in a tragic way that haunts them. Highlighting the power of grief and memory, with some light critique on the American medical system, the author hopes readers will find familiarity, empathy, and a little bit of horror in Alex’s ordeal and what they are willing to sacrifice.
What Falls When We’re Not Looking
After hitting her head in an accident, a woman has a strange conversation with a fish about the limits of her life and ends up with a little more hope than before.
The Adventures of Isabelle Book II: Journey To Orphalese
Join Princess Isabelle of Xamayca as she answers her first call to adventure on the high seas to free the people of Orphalese from the sinister Captain Flint and his fleet of greedy pirates.
Rainfall
A short fictional piece in which two people debate about whether a painting of the real world is of any merit or significance.
Wasp Hour
A dejected child becomes distracted from their detached relationship with their mother by The Wasp—a grand, frightening, uniquely exhilarating onset in the child’s life.
Minutes To Midnight
A college new years party becomes a search for the perfect moment. A stage play about self discovery, maturity, and personal growth.
Idling
A play about gay yearning and missed timing, two college girls sit in a car waiting for a friend to sell them drugs and learn secrets about each other that they’ve kept hidden for years.
Reincarnation
Reincarnation explores natural cycles through a queer lens. The piece deals with loss, and rebirth, especially the losses and rebirths that are associated with queer identity; ostracization, internal conflict, self acceptance, and transformation.
