Keith Rosson | Primal Slap
Jeffrey, chin glazed in grease, leans his head over my cubicle wall and asks me what I’m working on. He slurps something from his bento box---the one with his name supposedly written in kanji on the s...
3 Touko 20231h
James Tatam | Jumper
The Rampart Hotel towered into the sky. It was hard to believe the building was once considered the flagship symbol for a new boom in southeast tourism---a boom that lasted as long as these things usu...
19 Huhti 202339min
Natasha King | Root Canticle
Be honest, now. What did you think you would find? You have ventured all the way to this cellar, meaning you must have first braved the porch balustrade of milk teeth, skirting the welcome mat that pa...
5 Huhti 202318min
Wen-yi Lee | Laura Lau Will Drain You Dry
The day after the picture of your boobs gets sent around the school, a mosquito lands on your tongue and bursts like a ripe cherry. You are crying in the disabled stall of the girls’ bathroom where yo...
22 Maalis 202322min
Kristina Ten | The Dizzy Room
Mom and Dad all but forced the games on me. It’s hard to believe now. All you hear about these days is how kids don’t want to play water balloons anymore, don’t want to do sack race, how every year th...
8 Maalis 202348min
Erik Grove | Home
One could, if necessary, hide between the studs in your wall. Shoulders, narrower than the gap. Back against the plywood of the exterior panel; chest, when fully inflated with breath, pressing against...
15 Helmi 202322min
Dominique Dickey | Who The Final Girl Becomes
Cinda begins the worst afternoon of her life by hiding in a closet. It’s spring break of her senior year of high school, and she’s rented a cabin with four friends using money she saved from her job a...
1 Helmi 202352min
Katherine Quevedo | Until It Has Your Reflection
I hold the crayon to the mirror, ready to swipe it across my reflection’s neck just as my husband, Tomas, instructed. Make a quick horizontal line, then break the crayon against the glass. Snap it lik...
18 Tammi 202320min
