My Left Tongue
byEVERYONE HAS TO BELIEVE ME, I JUST CAME IN HERE FOR THE FOOD. I’ve been peckish all day long, and I’ve been thinking about chicken with rice pilaf. Are those…
Stories
River
byAN A-FRAME WITH FRONT GABLES. Outside: a chipped Hudson Commodore. It’s Florida, 1969. The dawn of Disney. The alligators are newly relocated to Lake Jesup. The palms sag with heat,…
The Woman the Spiders Loved
byThe following is a story from our upcoming release I’ll Tell You a Love Story by Couri Johnson, due out April 14th, and originally appeared in Penultimate Peanut. We hope you enjoy, and if you’d…
Marble and Mud
byHARRIET WHEELED HER BIKE OVER TO THE CEDAR SHED BESIDE THE CABIN and propped it against the shed’s gray shingled wall, spotted with holes bored by the bees who call…
Operator Get Me Jesus On the Line
byIt was a world of tired, antagonistic men and he was a kid. He hung out with his father a lot and would do most anything to please him or…
Fat Man in the Bathtub
byOne day Curly Mirrors woke up. He was cold as fuck with a headache that could split a locust stump. You’d think the headache would be a clue, but it…
Yeti
byIT LAYS DEAD BEFORE ME, ITS SKULL CRACKED. The tree bore no injury. Grasping the kill by the neck, I move toward the mountain. Little drops of red fall upon…
Subway Advice for LeBron James
by“OLDER BROTHER.” I STOPPED FOR A SECOND THE OTHER DAY WHEN THAT PHRASE SAT UP IN MY MIND. I was walking through Washington Square Park with a few slices of…
Orbit
byTHEY HAVE ERASED ME FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH BY NOW. The one they sent to the papers with all of us sat outside the refectory. They do that, you know. The…
Thrown Back into the Ocean
byHE EXPECTED TO SEE HER, IN A WILD DRAPE OF FISHERMEN’S NET, her mouth open for air, like the koi carp that ran up to you where large carp were…