I Never Learned to Shuffle Cards cling together,but break in collidingwaterfalls of cardboardnot ending in orderbut creating chaos of redand… Read more I Never Learned to Shuffle by Jordan Mattox

I.  The Skareen came for the women of the Duilane the night they met in council, butchering them in their… Read more The Riches of Olim Gor by Greg Sendi

The girl glanced over her shoulder, her red sweatshirt clinging to her sweat-slicked back. Clutching her backpack closer to her,… Read more Teeth and Bones and Little Red Coats by Emma Deimling

New Sun The light switch in the basement Turns off the sun It’s now like a bowling ball A sickly… Read more Selections from “Another Talley Mark” by Angelo Letizia

All the house is creaking calm, lightless except dim squares of nightglow seeping in at the windows. Just the two… Read more The Boy-Thing at Sea by Jason Baltazar

It had rained great gray sheets of rain since they’d arrived in Prague the day before, but now the sun… Read more Marionettes by Sara Connell

There was a frog sitting near a river, looking for bugs and worms to eat. A scorpion walked up to… Read more An Aesop’s Update: The Scorpion and the Frog by Zeke Jarvis

The sun crests the treetops on election day in Rogers Park. Duna stood faithfully inches from the door, waiting for… Read more Hologram the Vote by Patty Nicole Johnson

The sword is heavy now. He forgets why he is there, in the cave, in the first place. He wants… Read more A little FLASH Fiction from Coleman Bomar

When Frank’s family moved into the apartment downtown, his daughter swore it was haunted. Not with anything to back it… Read more The Life We Left Behind by Craig Steven

Tommy’s crowbar tore through the old drywall, spilling a crumbled section of blackened rot to the floor. He wiped his… Read more I DON’T GRANT WISHES by Jeremiah Kleckner

Claudia circled downward on the spiral staircase into her bakery. Flaming orange rays of sunrise licked lace curtains in the… Read more Blueberry Scone Clippings By LC Treeheart

WHAT THEY DIDN’T SEE   She lies there in the street, emitting green smoke through the pores in her skin.… Read more Three Poems from John Grey

The dogs started barking long before dawn. Buck Stevens opened one eye and shut it again quickly. He’d stopped by… Read more The Ugly Indian by Rhema Sayers

Allison felt eyes on her, peering through her window as she was jotting down the finishing touches to the latest… Read more Offspring by Tim Frank