Bending at the Edges by Jamie McGillen
Sun blasts heat in yellow laughs but someday the sun will explode how all things do when they hold too...
The Hand by Brandon Mc Ivor
I knew a man, Mr. Marco Marsden, who lost his hand in a slaughterhouse. The story was different every time...
Big-Game by Chris Dungey
How long can it possibly take a supposedly motivated shop-rat to cash a paycheck, minus the $5 fee, knock back...
Equations for a Falling Body by Chloe Jory
It starts in Canyon Creek Hospital, where, on Sunday mornings, he waits for his mother to die. She rasps...
The Probable Aftermath of a Fistfight by M. Drew Williams
I’ll hobble into the foothills to stand half-blind in the lilted dark above the draw, looking out over the valley...
Ablutions by Dale Walkonen
My mother grows delphinium, foxglove, zinnia, plucks the dew laden morning. With a storm of petals, she anoints my waking...
Properties of Glass by Sherry Rind
Nothing stays at rest molecules of a crystal—table salt snowflakes, diamonds, quartz—repeat their patterns in tight formation like a platoon...
The Going Price For Venom by Gary Reddin
On the weekends the boys would take their bikes into the desert carrying wicker baskets and sharpened sticks in search...
I wake up to find out a guy who bullied me in highschool has died of an overdose by Jordan Ranft
The obituary talks of his smile. I imagine it breaking through his face like a thunderhead, frantic like a hunted...
Emptiness by Jared Pearce
Fire blight has touched the pear, and the bright leaves And rounding fruit crumble to ashes despite the sun, The...