A speech on the greatest threat facing our country.
Flash Fiction
A Kinder, Gentler Impaler
Substance is immaterial. Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula, seeks an image makeover that appeals to mainstream society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
