Existential shenanigans in a maternity ward

Existential shenanigans in a maternity ward
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.
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.
A short story about connections and romanticized ideas of people, about bodies, of water and otherwise, about understanding and what it consists of.
A man’s work life balance takes an interesting toll on his body.
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?
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.
A young boy wakes up one day to find that everything he touches turns into Napoleon.
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.
How did I end up sitting across from an ostrich who asks too many questions? It’s Friday Funday!
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.
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.
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.
A short fictional piece in which two people debate about whether a painting of the real world is of any merit or significance.
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.
A college new years party becomes a search for the perfect moment. A stage play about self discovery, maturity, and personal growth.
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 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.