Issue 5 | Burnt Breakfast

‘Ceramic Giraffe’ by Ryan Keating

I keep a ceramic giraffe standing guard in front of the wooden wine rack on top of the bookshelf full of other bottles in the corner of...

‘The Class of 2007’ by Lauren Gorski

Amped and emo, we grew our limbs from wine coolers dripping wet after teen idols and hip-hugging capris. During the election, we voted...

‘Say Nothing’ by Phyllis Ritter

We met in the ladies room of her advertising firm. She was applying mascara in the mirror. I was filling the paper towel dispenser. She...

‘Surprising Birds’ by Dave Clark

I walked past a dead pigeon today. It was on its back, Both legs stuck up And its toes spread out. As though it died surprising someone....

‘The Time My Uncle Whipped a Knife at Someone’ by Zeke Jarvis

I have this uncle who absolutely swore that one of his coworkers was secretly a superhero. To be fair, his coworker did look a little...

‘One Bullet’ by Daniel Farkas

A kilometer away, the sniper found perfect rooftop camouflage. The Geheime Staatspolizei, the responsible body, ignored the area beyond...

‘The Long Lie In’ by Matthew Wright

As I lay in the dark with you, my love, at my side, our old digi-clock struggles to remember that the new day starts in zeros. Funny old...

‘Bias Binding’ by Karen Mooney

I helped her pin on the pattern, marking it out with chalk before making the cuts, binding the edges then stitching it all together on a...

‘Flea Bitten Unicorn’ by Dominic Loise

There was a cheap rate UHF airtime commercial during my youth repeated in between after school cartoons that heralded the return of a...

‘Quiet’ by Donna Ghassemi

It had been quiet for a while. Things have been quiet before. There was a time in December when the air had become heavy with the...

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