Jeremiah Tolbert | The West Topeka Triangle
As much as the other kids in my neighborhood like to tell me I’m a know-it-all, I realize just how short the list of things I actually know is one cold winter morning in 1987. I know my vocabulary wor...
17 Jan 201754min
Adam-Troy Castro | The Whole Crew Hates Me
They hate me. They have told me this, again and again, starting from almost the first day of the mission, and continuing every day since then, carrying their hostility well outside the confines of the...
10 Jan 201726min
Kat Howard | Seven Salt Tears
When I was a child, my mother would tell me stories of the sea. When I couldn’t sleep, when I was restless, when I burned with some childhood fever, she would sit by my side, and conjure something won...
3 Jan 201723min
Charles Payseur | The Death of Paul Bunyan
Paul Bunyan has died. Paul Bunyan has died and Johnny Appleseed is heading north. Not for vengeance, like Paul would have wanted. Not to beat the hills red or divert a river over those responsible for...
27 Dec 201623min
Violet Allen | The Venus Effect
This is 2015. A party on a westside roof, just before midnight. Some Mia or Mina or throwing it, the white girl with the jean jacket and the headband and the two-bumps-of-molly grin, flitting from fri...
20 Dec 20161h 3min
Carlie St. George | Every Day Is the Full Moon
There are things you know and things you don’t know. You find it helpful to make lists. For example: THINGS YOU KNOW: — A Wrinkle in Time is bullshit. You don’t care if it’s Riley Chu’s favorite child...
13 Dec 201644min
Rich Larson | The Cyborg, the Tinman, the Merchant of Death
Sarge knew before I did, of course, but I still had to take him the transfer orders. I didn’t know how to feel on my way to the officers’ mess. I would miss my unit and I would miss my Sarge, but it w...
6 Dec 201630min
Helena Bell | I’ve Come to Marry the Princess
Before Jack can apologize to Nancy, she has to believe that dragons exist. Nancy’s mad at him because they were supposed to perform a skit at the talent show and he stood her up. They’ve been practici...
22 Nov 201639min
