Adam-Troy Castro | The Arm Ouroboros
I take the hammer in my right hand and raise it up over my head to bring down, screaming, against the left hand I have placed flat on the tabletop. My knuckles do not break. My skin does not tear. I d...
17 Aug 202219min
Endria Isa Richardson | Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You
We came down to Independence in the afternoon. The sky as we descended was white, gray, pink smeared on a dirty canvas. I had the sense---because that morning we had been very high, above 13,000 feet,...
3 Aug 202235min
Laura Blackwell | What the Dead Birds Taught Me
The first time I saw him, I was crouched in a ditch by the highway, lancet poised, holding a crumbly-paged book open to the words to reanimate a dead owl. Anne leaned against our dad’s old car on the ...
20 Jul 202236min
Robert Levy | The Closet Game
You know the game, don’t you? All you need is a closet, and a book of matches---and a willing participant. Not much to it, considering. Jesse first heard about it at twelve from his older sister, afte...
6 Jul 202237min
Lavie Tidhar | Dr. Wasp and Hornet Holmes
Dr. Wasp and Hornet Holmes were gathering nectar one day when Holmes made a startling observation. “The Queen has been behaving rather oddly in recent days,” she said. Dr. Wasp pulled her proboscis fr...
22 Jun 202229min
Alex Saint-Widow | The Last of the Juggalos
My grandfather was a clown prophet. I mean he was a clown. A literal clown. He wore clown makeup. And he foretold the end. Accurately. John, the Puranas, Snorri Sturluson, Nostradamus, any of those ap...
8 Jun 202237min
Juan Martinez | Esther (1855)
The Saints saw nothing but rock and scrub, the one lone Joshua tree dead, its arms defeated. They traveled by wagon, the four still alive, their clothes stiff with their own stink and with the smell o...
18 Mai 202217min
James L. Sutter | And All Their Silent Roars
“But why?” Charlotte whined. In the front seat, our mother consulted the map. “I’m not going to keep answering that.” Anyone who’d come within shouting distance of our old house the week before could ...
4 Mai 202238min
