![Now, What Do You Want?](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.09.03.story_Fay_Loomis350.png)
The sophisticated lady sees the small helpless child contained in a steel cylinder. The child’s anxious upturned face is …
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Before the game I asked my Girl to stop cheering for Doofus Danny, the roided out linebacker all the …
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Man hurtles himself headfirst at his 15th-floor window, all the unwavering self-hate Man can muster.Window doesn’t shatter, doesn’t shudder, doesn’t waver.Window is no Hollywood pussy break-away glass window.Man is no …
Flash Fiction
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![Rock Bottom](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.29.poem_Hannah_Woodvine350.png)
I am at the bottom of this bottle but love is nowhere to be found. The rocks spiral in the glass, illuminated by morning sun shade on me fool me …
Poetry
![Magic Slippers](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.03.28.story_Michael_Riordan350.png)
He climbed the steps of a multicolored storybook Victorian house and shuddered. David Benson was worried about how …
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![Masks & Figures](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/essays/24.03.28.essay_Chris_Daly_artwork_DALLE350.png)
So on the eleventh or twelfth day finally get out to the street action carrying a small burst of …
Essay
![So Slowly Goes the Day](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.03.27.story_Kyle_Miller_Artwork_Kyle_Miller350.png)
Which of the torchless roads calls his name? The Emperor's head of trivia announces the death of choice.
Short Story
![Love’s Nightmare](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.27.poem_Lauren_Minor_3_artwork_DALLE350.png)
I didn’t know it was you until it wasn’t. I didn’t know pain until you left me, face down, wallowing in a deep ocean of my tears You …
Poetry
![To The Survivor of a Tattered Mind](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.27.poem_Lauren_Minor_2350.png)
The keeper of my heart and fallen dreams; the tormentor of my shattered soul I need you to stop erecting mansions of doubt in my mind ... to …
Poetry
![Portion Control](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.27.poem_Lauren_Minor_1_artwork_DALLE350.png)
I must ration my (affections for you so I do not gorge myself on heartbreak (all in one sitting. I must spoon feed myself morsels of time, so …
Poetry
![The Preacher Before His Time](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.03.25.story_R.P._Singletary350.png)
He thought he knew these people. Through the lens of his cracked shield needing a wash to better shine …
Short Story
![How to Love a Rotting Thing](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.03.25.story_Elinor_Bonifant_reel_artwork_Elinor_Bonifant=www.elinorbonifant.com350.png)
BEFOREI was the one they called to the morgue to identify Davis. My phone rang just as I was stepping out of lecture hall.
Short Story
![Friends of John, Songs I didn’t fuck to](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.25.poem_Cameron_Tricker_artwork_DALLE350.png)
Friends of John Can’t clear the arterial detritus, nor shake the dull ache in the pickled kidneys. They float by my bedside, in piss-golden stasis.
Poetry
![Town Centers aren’t Shopping Malls](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.03.22.story_Michael_Mulvey_reel_artwork_DALLE350.png)
“It’s a doctor’s appointment,” I speak loudly to make sure my colleague hears me on the speaker because traffic’s …
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![Mountain Girl Poems](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.21.poem_Brynn_Staker_St._Clair_artwork_DALLE350.png)
Mountain Mother I learned to map the cardinal directions With the Mountain as my East, The same dirt that crowns her noble brow Scatters at my feet. I grew up …
Poetry
![The Small Horseshoe Bay](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.03.18.story_Fiona_O'Brien_artwork_Lucy_Pook=instagram.com-pookpayingattention350.png)
She cried as they made their way down to the small horsehoe bay, on the stony path through the …
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![On Filling Cups](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/flash/24.03.18.flash_Mia_Herrera_artwork_Mia_Herrera=instagram.com-mia.hrrera350.png)
Last spring, I decided to make the inane decision to write a love letter every day to my ex. …
Flash Fiction
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These overpriced, one-use icky organic wares stubbornly resisted my attempts to elicit a response. I prodded and jabbed at …
Short Story
![RUBY RUBY](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/flash/24.03.15.flash_Sarah_Butkovic_artwork_Sarah_Butkovic=somethingwrittenbysarah.blogspot.com350.png)
Limerence like wine, pouring over me in shallows of sparkling ecstasy, draining my veins of their blood until they …
Flash Fiction
![Where She Went When She Was Gone](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.03.13.story_Dylan_Reber_artwork_Heather_Lim=instagram.com-heathers.marker350.png)
There was a woman who came sometimes to the back door of my club. She would knock four times …
Short Story
![By Lamplight](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.11.poem_David_Capps_artwork_DALLE350.png)
In my old age before my old age I reach for a glass of water, a book on the nightstand. The Inferno is popular.
Poetry
![On Reincarnation](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/essays/24.03.11.essay_David_Capps350.png)
Thoughts accumulate, and memories such as encode oppositions to oneself, the way which, when thoroughly lost in the forest, …
Essay
![3 Poems](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.09.poem_Sean_Murphy_artwork_DALLE350.png)
------------------------------------------- Elon Musk’s Money ------------------------------------------- What’s the point of having all those billions if you’re not willing to invest most of it to develop a kind of liquidated virtual reality …
Poetry
![Urban Odyssey](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/stories/24.03.08.story_Stewart_Bellus_artwork_DALLE350.png)
The bagel rolled out of my sweatshirt pocket and spun to a stop in the bus lane. That was …
Short Story
![Z](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.04.poem_Ash_Conrad_artwork_Ash_Conrad350.png)
do you ever feel like a half a grapefruit at breakfast A sharp metal spoon keeps asking digging and scraping the sides of you and everything You’ve made and the …
Poetry
![706-343-7***](https://nydumbos3bucket.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/static/images/webfeatures/poems/24.03.03.poem_Ash_Conrad350.png)
an uneven stone word round in & out but still hard to bite on. (scared it slips out my mouth) I miss your hands the leather the grease the ink …
Poetry