READ SOME BULLSHIT

Jul 7, 2022
6 min

A STORY by STEPHEN BAILY

DEAL-BREAKER After a strenuous night on the town—think snorts, tarts, water sports—I was just drifting off into a dream when Mater burst...

Jul 6, 2022
1 min

TWO POEMS by VICTORIA TOYKKALA (v.m.t.)

MINISTRATIONS originally published in DREICH 10 (Season 4), May 2022 her voice her presence a malignancy invading my happiest thoughts...

Jul 5, 2022
3 min

THREE POEMS by OLIVER MILLER

THESE BE THE LINES Forget-me-not is my flower that splits the rocks, or should I say rather — and as I said to my ex-girlfriend...

Jul 1, 2022
1 min

TWO POEMS by SAMUEL STRATHMAN

AIR CONDITIONER SONNET It’s not another used air conditioner I want so much as need. I go through the leagues of neighbours and find one...

Jun 30, 2022
1 min

A POEM by AUTUMN C

WHATEVER BUT I WANT YOU TO light me on fire i will emblaze you my ashes clump and clay to form the shape of (man) tell a tale ...

Jun 29, 2022
21 min

A STORY by ELIZABETH HOYLE

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...

Jun 28, 2022
1 min

A POEM by ASHLEY VARELA

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...

Jun 24, 2022
9 min

A STORY by SEAN MORRISSEY CARROLL

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

Jun 24, 2022
1 min

THREE POEMS by FAITH BENAVIDES

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

Jun 22, 2022
2 min

SOME FLASH by TIM FRANK

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

Jun 22, 2022
1 min

A POEM by ANNA ARDEN

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...

Jun 17, 2022
2 min

THREE POEMS by CHARLES RAMMELKAMP

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...

Jun 16, 2022
9 min

FOUR THINGS by KAT GIORDANO

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...

Jun 15, 2022
3 min

FIVE POEMS by GALE ACUFF

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...

Jun 10, 2022
9 min

A STORY by T.R. HEALY

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

Jun 9, 2022
1 min

FIVE THINGS by JASMINE KAUR

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...

Jun 8, 2022
2 min

THREE POEMS by MAGGIE FULMER

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...

Jun 4, 2022
2 min

SOME FLASH by JOSH DALE

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...

Jun 2, 2022
1 min

SOME PROSE by SAGE PANTONY

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...

Jun 1, 2022
3 min

THREE POEMS by HALLE PRENETA

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...

May 27, 2022
3 min

A STORY by COURTENAY S. GRAY

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...

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