A MOMENT The ground is shaking beneath his car but that’s not what wakes Max up. It’s hot, dry, and nearing sunset, the complete opposite...

NY152 fuck it, let’s be corny. let's day drink through the farmer’s market, let’s juggle mangoes without paying for them. let's nap in...

BOUNTY [CW: ABORTION; STALKING; ALL-AROUND SHITHEADERY.] Serious, perhaps. This new lead was a doozy, and not in the way that had Petra...

CONFESSIONS IN THERAPY dear nobody, she said “man, I felt mixed. almost gone. look and imagine dusk. a shadow or a song. always swollen,...

HEALTH AND HAPPINESS The slasher flick I downloaded yesterday is running laps around my local park in flip-flops and a gas mask....

GEMINI/CANCER CUSP tell me where the mouth was supposed to meet with the words. tell me where the physical connection is meant to find...

THE PRIEST We called Garth “The Priest,” and even though it was meant to be ironic, the rest of us, swaddled in our student deferments...

THREESOME in my dream there was a sex convention, but it was really just a book fair and they were out of wine. i was nervous. you were...

WHEN THE WORLD ENDS IF I'M STILL ALIVE THEN I won't be--I'll be dying with it, it doesn't seem fair, other folks before me got to die and...

MUD BATH “no business like show business” Around half past eight in the evening, the ragged man stepped into the waterfront bar and, for...

A RIGHTISH-LEFT I write, I write, I write Then I try to remember what it was that I wrote I ask them if they understand - they don't Read...

FROM THE DINING ROOM I watch deer jet across Cumberland Avenue through the window – give them all a name and a reason. Willow got lost...

ALL I WANTED WAS A CHEESEBURGER So, I gomt to the remstauramnt anmd was all limke, “I wamt a cheemsburmger,” and the sermver was tamken...

GO FREEZE SOME GRAPES Sometimes, you’re an emotional mess and you can’t write and you feel bad about that cause you’re like damn this is...

LOOPS KILL US The Heroine is the one to save the goddess of water and beauty and joy and love. The one whose heart is gold and whose...

CALL GIRL His room stunk of Arabian incense, puke, and lava lamp juice. He’d knocked it off the side when his legs started kicking. They...

COUNTERFEIT PEARLS Dean marched into the waiting room, the young woman at reception nodding with a phone pressed to her ear. She holds up...

I HEARD THE WORLD OFFER ITSELF AND MY MOM SAID NO You can’t offer the world. Some people take it like greedy toddler fingers. There’s so...

MARTINEZ The dim light at the wine bar painted mysterious portraits of its visitors. “Make it a double,” he heard her saying. It was her...

ONE JUST HAS TO BE SO VERY CAREFUL Several statues of white angels have gone missing from the Angelenos Cemetery. I had been sleeping in...

LOX, CAPERS, HONEY BUTTER There's faux- Vineyard Grapes up on the wall from when this place was an attempt at a classy Italian restaurant...