Fiction

Bleat / Ernest Gordon Taulbee

The Billy goat ate three beer cans in the morning. By evening, it was on its side bleating in a slow and mournful cadence. It was as if...

Crescendo / Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos

Pianissimo > They were rehearsing a Mozart concerto. Viola had recently joined the orchestra. He wasn’t quite good enough, but the chair...

Sing It, Maybe They'll Understand / Timothy Boudreau

In the morning Eileen plays her late father’s piano, an improvisation in A-minor: the chord followed by a cluster of cascading notes,...

Fed / Michael Chin

Rosaline peeled back the tin foil on the lasagna. The mozzarella bubbled and steam rose. She smelled Sunday dinner at her mother’s house...

Turquoise / Charlotte Hamrick

Recuperating on a rubber raft in a motel swimming pool after driving 11 hours through the netherlands of south Texas, snorting and...

Rotolo / Joshua Vigil

Humberto hadn’t meant to become a faculty wife. He lowered his eyes after he said this, his fingers thrusting a looping straw to his...

By the Pond Back Home / Shome Dasgupta

You might already know, but Turnip Redd’s breakthrough performance came at the age of 22 on Conan. Shy, nervous, and overwhelmed, he was...

Mindy / Francois Bereaud

I’m doing the pole, the metal cold between my breasts and my g-string riding uncomfortably up my ass – I’ll never get used to that...

Doctor's Orders / Dan Russell

I’ve been lying here in bed for an hour or two, thinking about everything. I ain’t sure I’m gonna say anything. Talking about it won’t do...

Stung / Sheree Shatsky

Mary found her honey bee the same way as her momma and her momma before. She paid for him. She first saw the fine young man while...

Poor People / A.E. Weisgerber

I see a freshly fallen branch and pick it up. Black walnut. I squint at the cluster of male catkins and the single, delicate cup of the...