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    But They'd Never Believe Me by Tommy Dean
    • 3 min

    But They'd Never Believe Me by Tommy Dean

    The water sloshed against the concrete barrier. How long would we have to stand there before erosion would let us slide right in?
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    THIS IS WHAT I WANT & THIS MEADOW by Despy Boutris
    • 1 min

    THIS IS WHAT I WANT & THIS MEADOW by Despy Boutris

    🏆 Pushcart Nominated THIS IS WHAT I WANT after Holly Prado uprooted trees filled with Earth’s art, music notes in each particle of...
    868 views
    More Americans Believe They’ve Seen a Ghost Than a Trans Person & Quars Poetica by Ally Ang
    • 2 min

    More Americans Believe They’ve Seen a Ghost Than a Trans Person & Quars Poetica by Ally Ang

    More Americans Believe They’ve Seen a Ghost Than a Trans Person “Nothing is more frightening than looking / and loving what you see.”...
    1,205 views
    No Cure by Lucy Zhang
    • 4 min

    No Cure by Lucy Zhang

    🏆 Nominated for Best Short Fictions The first thing I looked up was whether girls enjoyed giving guys blow jobs. If girls drank...
    680 views
    A process of cleaning out & Poem for some sort of security by Loisa Fenichell
    • 2 min

    A process of cleaning out & Poem for some sort of security by Loisa Fenichell

    A process of cleaning out Winter, then, kept the body cold. I was saved by a woman blowing some whistle & corn pipe. My voice was dead. I...
    282 views
    God Save the Forest by Ashia Ajani
    • 3 min

    God Save the Forest by Ashia Ajani

    I didn’t intentionally spurn the forest rather it became another question of Southern belonging I didn’t have the patience to unravel....
    232 views
    Take Me Out by Sarah Perret-Goluboff
    • 8 min

    Take Me Out by Sarah Perret-Goluboff

    Jerry’s leaning against the doorframe. He has one arm crossed against his waist, the other propped up holding the phone. His face is...
    498 views
    Redacted Love Letter, May 31st by Chloé Allyn
    • 1 min

    Redacted Love Letter, May 31st by Chloé Allyn

    I wonder Frances, will you love me? This day has a bad feeling, less bad than the last few days, Frances because today I woke up thinking...
    291 views
    Epicaricacy by Mandira Pattnaik
    • 7 min

    Epicaricacy by Mandira Pattnaik

    “A sharp and precise incision—you’d think he was a surgeon! Gouged out the animal liver, put it directly into his salivating mouth—warm...
    447 views
    Poky’s Levitating Grandmother by Jonathan Baker
    • 20 min

    Poky’s Levitating Grandmother by Jonathan Baker

    The first time Poky Jernigan told me about his levitating grandma, I thought he was full of shit. He mentioned it so casually. I figured...
    221 views
    Be Mine by David Desjardins
    • 14 min

    Be Mine by David Desjardins

    When he got his first look at it, Frank wanted to turn right around and let the tax agents keep the dump. The lawyer had warned him. What...
    155 views
    John in Concord by Chris Sheehan
    • 2 min

    John in Concord by Chris Sheehan

    The house was a sprawling ranch cut into mustard grass and adobe. Oak scrub and manzanita kept a vague property line, stunted and twisted...
    151 views
    Nicer than a Gold Watch and Easier to Get, Too by Stephen Kyo Kaczmarek
    • 4 min

    Nicer than a Gold Watch and Easier to Get, Too by Stephen Kyo Kaczmarek

    The zombies rattle the high school’s doors or as close to it as something deceasedly lackadaisical can. Mostly, they’re just bumping into...
    212 views
    Prophecy (Judgment Day) by Angela Wei
    • 2 min

    Prophecy (Judgment Day) by Angela Wei

    Where there is grass, sin. All flesh and fat fish snapping in the pool. Here I come to lull my head and wallow waist-deep in the sweet...
    165 views
    Like Any Other Vice by David Carrington
    • 18 min

    Like Any Other Vice by David Carrington

    🏆 Pushcart Nominated The Vagrant still felt an urge to eat, though his body rejected even the blandest food. Crackers, cornflakes—minute...
    2,466 views
    Backstory: Guest Art Director, Russ Rubin
    • 1 min

    Backstory: Guest Art Director, Russ Rubin

    By Russ Rubin Immediately I was struck by the color and rawness of emotion in all these poems and stories and by the idiosyncratic...
    48 views
    Professional Lola by E.P. Tuazon
    • 18 min

    Professional Lola by E.P. Tuazon

    🏆 Pushcart Nominated When my mom told me that we were hiring a professional lola for my nephew’s party, I pretended to misunderstand her...
    502 views
    Backstory: "Like Any Other Vice" by Mina Manchester
    • 2 min

    Backstory: "Like Any Other Vice" by Mina Manchester

    I read many short stories, both in my capacity as an MFA student at the Sewanee School of Letters and as the Fiction Editor of Five South...
    57 views
    • 3 min

    Backstory: “Nicer Than a Gold Watch and Easier to Get, Too” by Kristen Simental

    “Nicer Than a Gold Watch and Easier to Get, Too” appears in Issue Two Spring 2021 I want to take a look at “Nicer Than a Gold Watch and...
    113 views
    halloween ritual by Lip Manegio
    • 2 min

    halloween ritual by Lip Manegio

    she drags the needle though the red body of the thread, back stitches my shoulder blades, my sacrum, the pulse points at the corners of...
    324 views
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