Fiction

Tenterhooks

Summer Newett

I don’t know what duct tape is, but I know the sound of it ripped from a roll.

Grandma Orinka

Yurii Tokar

It doesn't matter why the trim, fifty-eight-year-old Sergei Viktorovich Krapchishin, in an elegant dark-gray suit, an ironed white shirt

Only the End of the World

Jean-Luke Swanepoel

It was following the Great Divide that men and women stopped cohabitating.

A Nice Place to Retire

Melanie Faranello

It was hot when they finally arrived in Jakarta

Between the Head and the Heart Lines

Alison Gadsby

Sibley notices immediately that Arianne Hebert’s life story is scattered across her palm like a handful of freshly tossed pick-up sticks,

//Glue

Matthew Thomas Meade

One of the greatest fears of your young life was of running out of glue

Shallow Wounds

Neema Samawi

I’m allergic to water. Not deathly, no anaphylaxis involved, just a skin-deep intolerance for that most life-giving of substances

Chirahora

Kelly Murashige

Chirahora (ちらほら): here and there; now and then; from time to time; occasionally

Nowhere on a Screen

Dustin M. Hoffman

Hector watched April suck down a Marlboro under The Strand movie theater’s yellow marquee dotted in scorched-black bulbs

Ten-Cent Outpost

Kate Henderson

An amateur might think of it as panic, but Estelle Marks didn’t

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