Issue 4

Jun 7, 2021

Oceanic Extremities | By Jason de Koff

The lagoon sipped simple syrup, from the incoming tides, and the marsh birds, cried for their dinner. The offshore breeze, seasoned their...

Jun 4, 2021

Thinking of You | By D.H Valdez

We used to have sleepovers at Alex’s house once a month or so. Less than at Jonathan’s house, but we enjoyed Alex’s best because it had a...

Jun 2, 2021

Battle of Grandparents Garden | By Mary Senier

tiny warrior whirls over battlefield fighting enemies unseen air nemeses slashed and gashed with plastic sword courageous protector of...

May 31, 2021

The Gambler | By J. Manuel Ayala

I see god as the ultimate gambler I see him as a R. Crumb comic, wearing a gray tweed suit with mustard And ketchup stains on his slacks,...

May 28, 2021

Ladies in Waiting | By Chella Courington

Aline stood alone with her manilla folder. Tonight the sun slipped into the Pacific at 5:30 as she walked into the Handlebar. No hipster...

May 26, 2021

Lady Penelope Goes to Town | By Sarah Wallis

The sizable goat in the front seat of the car is wild eyed at being allowed into my strange world, especially after I chased her out of...

May 24, 2021

Toasted Lincoln | By Marc Littman

“Jamie ate his toast, why won’t you eat yours?” I pleaded with my 6-year-old son. “It looks like President Lincoln,” Teddy pointed out...

May 21, 2021

Epstein Didn't Kill Himself | By Eileen Lynch

Sometimes I forget I’m a diva then I end up in line for some basement bar bathroom behind three Jewish girls clutching rum punch and...

May 19, 2021

Enter or Egress | By Edward Lee

I wake in a room full of doors, floor to ceiling, wall to wall, nothing but doors, and no handle on a single one of them. This isn't the...

May 17, 2021

Quiet Rooms | By Andrew Shields

You know I think it's fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms. (Mitt Romney, January 2012) We talk about these things in quiet...

May 14, 2021

Betting on Amber | By Christopher Mooney

The shit-eating grin never left the fat fucking face as he wrote the ticket and gave me the lecture about it being better to get there...

May 12, 2021

Animation | By David Galef

Stephen was an anime artist, the youngest brother of an Instagram star. He lived alone and had become expert at pleasing himself. He...

May 10, 2021

Laundry Day | By Florence Dunnington

It’s two thirty on a Sunday afternoon. The neighbours have hung their washing out, three white shirts dangling in a row. All clipped up,...

May 7, 2021

Thursday Show at the Electrical Gospel Club | By Joe Ray W

Mike Bad Taste, finally played at a venue I could get down and dirty at. The new album, 'Nothing Left To Say', might be all filler, no...

May 5, 2021

A Grammar Workshop | By William Doreski

The New York School of Poets has become a grammar workshop meeting in the diner’s back room. Ashbery parses favorite intransitive verbs,...

May 3, 2021

My Transformation into a Plastic Bill Murray | By William Musgrove

Six months ago, Bill Murray, the last of the real celebrities, perished in a hospital bed. The doctor overseeing this titan of...

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