A Contract Overseas

Fiction
By: | April 4, 2016

With Andoy unemployed and my mother scraping to feed us, I couldn't go straight to college, even with a scholarship. We both spent the next twelve months mopping floors More

The Buffalo

Fiction
By: | March 1, 2016

Though no one was paying attention, she smoothed her skirt again, did what she could so no one would notice how weak and disgraced she was, haughtily protecting her… More

Maureen

Flash Fiction
By: | February 4, 2016

Instead of looking at his face, she looked outside. It was raining, what looked like yellow rain on a darker yellow sidewalk. I'm getting married again, he said. We're… More

Grace

Fiction
By: | December 10, 2015

The first night at our house dressed in red like that, with her long black hair, with her shining black eyes, though one was bruised, I thought she’d start… More

Grace

Flash Fiction
By: | December 4, 2015

The first night at our house dressed in red like that, with her long black hair, with her shining black eyes, though one was bruised, I thought she’d start… More

The Name

Flash Fiction
By: | October 9, 2015

Despite his best efforts, the Author’s name began to slide down off the top of the book’s cover where it had been printed. The Author’s self-confidence had died long… More

Love Me Back

Fiction
By: | June 4, 2015

At ten a.m. I hadn’t come down even after smoking a joint and taking five sleeping pills. In the mirror I had no iris, I was all hole, falling… More

Retrospective

Fiction
By: | June 4, 2015

Boaz understood that while he respected Eva’s utter ease with herself—the woman had lost her entire family at an even younger age than Boaz but refused to act like… More

Frago

Fiction
By: | June 1, 2015

Maybe we should all breathe out tonight as a squad. Get drunk off Listerine and deal with this shit. But I don’t want to pull that trigger unless I… More

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