Emma Osborne | Don’t Pack Hope
The horde is attracted to bright colours, so when you put together your bug-out bag, you pack the drab outfits you’d sworn never to wear again once you’d finally, breathlessly, emerged as your true, r...
18 Apr 201816min
Adam-Troy Castro | Pitcher Plant
The mansion is a study in architecture at war with itself. It’s not just the windows that don’t match and the turrets that don’t overlook anything and the roof that sits flat here while looming at imp...
4 Apr 201846min
Lilliam Rivera | Crave
Taina crawls underneath the shack to unearth her wooden cigar box. She opens it and places the items in front of her: a piece of leftover mundillo lace from an unfinished handkerchief, an ivory ribbon...
21 Mar 201826min
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor | Mr. Try Again
Six-year-old Violet Wellington was the only child to come out of the swamp. The boys were gone forever. She sat on the side of a muddied dirt road, digging her nails raw against the gravel; her jeans ...
7 Mar 201841min
Emily B. Cataneo | Seven Steps to Beauty for a Girl Named Avarice
She’s born in a pine-wood cottage, birches tangled over its roof, snow burying the log pile. When she’s still young, her father disappears in a war of musket-shot and horses screaming into the gunpowd...
21 Feb 201833min
Theodore McCombs | Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women
Mill—a charmer and a rake of no respectable talent whatever—insinuated himself into the home of the widow Annie Holcomb and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alice. But Mrs. Holcomb turned him out, onc...
7 Feb 201841min
Vincent Michael Zito | The Owner’s Guide to Home Repair, Page 238: What to Do About Water Odor
Turn the crystal knob on your kitchen faucet and shut off the water. Step back. Wave the air in front of you, cough, snort, pinch your nose, do whatever you must to clear the repulsive smell clogging ...
17 Jan 201815min
Lori Selke | A Head in a Box, or, Implications of Consciousness after Decapitation
This is not about the movie. The movie that launched her career, where she played the pretty wife of a headstrong cop. Pretty, blonde, smart, convincing. Unhappy. The dutiful wife, killed, dismembered...
3 Jan 201839min
