Soupçon Morningstar, the local human resources employee, was attacked by a Pitbull. The Pitbull’s name – appropriately enough …
Flash Fiction
DUMBO Press: Tell us about your latest release, The Idiot’s Garden!Kyle E. Miller: The earliest appearance of TIG in …
Interview
She always imagined herself as the beam holding up her family’s sky. But now she sits curled up …
Flash Fiction
(For Renee Nicole Good, murdered on Jan. 7, 2026) Fuckin' bitch Had some nerve Fuckin' bitch Pissed me off Fuckin' bitch Thought she was better than me Fuckin' …
Poetry
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i hunger for the moment of entry for expansion yielding all pretense all carefully constructed indifference to a muted question of permission may? i?
Poetry
Janice learned early in her journalism career–when she still had a career, or access to that grand ladder of …
Short Story
subjugation wait, i can explain -- i used to be feral, chewing raw meat with sugary teeth, sucking on a carcass during sleepless nights, trying to fend off boars and …
Poetry
Leonard and I had laughed hard first, then with trepidation, when Caroline, at five years old and in …
Short Story
Sunny And now the sun appears – an arrogant schoolboy staring through my window – What am I doing? Just looking.
Poetry
Now, with your temporary elopement drawing to an end, every minute spent together was, for both of you, “worth …
Short Story
1793The hickories and black gums done been naked a piece, and Christmas come and went two months past. …
Short Story
There once was a father who tried his hardest to achieve his goal of teaching his son to …
Flash Fiction
Just below the fine white linen tablecloth, on his lap where only she could see it, he held …
Short Story
I like to walk fast and imagine minutes falling away on the other side of whatever journey is unfolding. …
Flash Fiction
I lived in a town where starving girls weaved Paper chains from heartstrings and gum wrappers, Staving off reality with cheap spirits coaxed from older lovers I lived …
Poetry
Peeling oranges with our eyes closed, on a rooftop lidded with stars Moon scrapes away a crescent of the sky and we cut away pounds of Our flesh …
Poetry
Ketamine kisses douse a blazing girl with the sick tang of gasoline, heartthrob, dementia She droops, star splayed and eager in her drowsiness, sped by the rhyme …
Poetry
Other Faces shift in my dreams from us to them and back. They are with me, free in that place: my people, cast out as Other from this …
Poetry
Candy wrappers slathered onto wooden tables and chip bags’ potent smells wafted through the air and around the …
Flash Fiction
Blind Man in the Snow I was troubled about something, I can't remember what. It might have …
Flash Fiction
It Will Come Back we say (fingers crossed, knock on wood, salt over shoulder) because it always has, because we don’t know what we’ll do if it doesn’t. Spring, …
Poetry
On the rare occasion when I dine with friends, I find that not only I, but also Lan, …
Flash Fiction
Meal Time Each morning, I boil the ocean to make my tea. I season my eggs with just sea and I eat it with a side of …
Poetry
Must be sixteen or older and show valid identificationI don’t personally have a problem with younger boys, but rules …
Short Story
Cosmic Joke I’m dying. screamed out into windowless night before being coaxed back to a confused bed.
Poetry