BRUISER

PARADE by Sydney Maguire Aug 22, 2024 Fiction

The first m&m hit the back of my eye, I saw green and fructose. Everything was sweet, including the pain. My little sister grabbed them by the

MANIC PIXIE DREAM HELLBENDER by Emily Baber Aug 21, 2024 Fiction

“She’s hot but she’s fucking crazy,” one said to the next, a refrain so common he digested it like soup let out too far. He winced down the rest of

IN by Lily Herman Aug 19, 2024 Poetry

Xaghra, above a beach of imported sand, we see the visitations one island makes upon a smaller, we pay for water, we watch the pitch where one old

Two poems by Annie Williams Aug 15, 2024 Poetry

"Elsewhere" & "Coda"

A RETURN, RETREATS by David Hay Aug 14, 2024 Poetry

Words don’t just mirror, they fist a flower victorious through deep cave apertures, suddenly ripened by a lonely sin, nourished continually with a

MY BACKYARD, IN THE FLESH by Alan Keith Parker Aug 13, 2024 Fiction

The flesh crept in about a year before my diagnosis. At first it was just a mound of muscle tendons on the other side of a fallen silver maple that

PERMISO by Carson Jordan Aug 8, 2024 Poetry

In hot outbreath, I eat crow. Oh, to be the sunbeam and the air conditioning, the Heinz honey packet and the violet vinegar. I’m both, I’m sorry. I

FESTIVAL by Tim Frank Aug 7, 2024 Poetry

There’s a festival floating like bubble wrap on the edge of Wednesday, and it’s always Wednesday. Fill up your cup, we’re going in. Liminal clowns

2:49 THEME AND VARIATION by Audrey Coble Aug 6, 2024 Fiction

In October, in the Fairbanks dark, a person can get lost. When I’m shaken awake by the racing of my own heart it’s 2:49 AM and everything is still

KILLING A DOG by A.W. Donnelly Aug 5, 2024 Poetry

Some kids from down my street killed a dog and left it by the drain concrete escarpment, a humble temple for those vestal gronks. Ants, in their

REEK by Rayna Perry Jul 11, 2024 Fiction

The man behind the convenience store counter took all of fifteen seconds to find and scan the barcode on Stevie’s bottle of Mello Yello, waving it

FIVE FRAGMENTS by Tim Frank Jul 10, 2024 Fiction

#1 Say farewell in a coffin of law. Reluctance to comply will lead to a wiretap crash, swooping like a dream in a blender. #2 Trust no one but the

Two poems by Isaac James Richards Jul 9, 2024 Poetry

"In Tennis, Love Means Nothing" & "Rodin in the Park"

TCHOTCHKES by Gabriel Campos Jun 28, 2024 Poetry

I am in no hurry to dream When my waking breaths are precious. Here are the dimensions of my anchorage: i. Calacatta marble, with idillio streaks

THE OGRE OF CASCADING ACRES by Danny Anderson Jun 27, 2024 Fiction

On the side of a mountain, at the southern edge of town, we built a shopping plaza, knowing damn well that an ogre lived in those hills. If, years

THE BOX CONTAINING GOD by Jordan Ferensic Jun 26, 2024 Poetry

After Anna K. Crooks You don’t hear people say no offense, but… much anymore you don’t see people rub their tummy in a circular motion to

AN UNSPOOLING OF GLASS SELVAGE by Daniel Dykiel Jun 26, 2024 Fiction

In deep dreams sink the crater-lake that doesn’t drown. The us that sinks is Gregor Valentine. He falls cylindrically, space darker than space. He

GREAT PLAINS SIN-EATER DROPS THE GLOVES by Rifke Vatsaas Jun 25, 2024 Poetry

Whitefloat beneath my feet skate by n a blinkofaturn, hip droppd, semicircle carvr n I’m aftr ’em shovl in the

VOLTA (FOR BAUDELAIRE) by Noah Rymer Jun 20, 2024 Poetry

(for Baudelaire) the days go by screaming like madmen with axes cockroaches pinned pirouetting feeble legs overturned life opens her languorous

13 ANGELS BEAT YOUR ASS TILL YOUR ASS STARTS TO LOOK LIKE A FLOPPY SACK by Tyler Dempsey Jun 18, 2024 Fiction

The angel reaches in my coat in a crack between the buttons of my shirt into a scab I haven’t stopped picking into the interveinal meat separating