Self-Portrait with Bandaged Penis
byI. OH, SURE, HE LEARNED FROM HIS BUDDIES. Once, when he was four years old, his best friend reached into the back of his teddy bear and extracted a flask…
Stories
Salt
byTHERE’S A LEGEND IN OUR VILLAGE. One that tells the tale of our founder, our beginnings, and what she left behind to protect us. Αλας, the woman made of salt….
Goulash for a Ghoul
byMY FRIENDS WILL TELL YOU THAT I’M ECLECTIC. I’ve had a varied career having been at one point in my life a Jesuit specializing in exorcism. But eventually the collar…
Return to Nowhere
byTWO RIDERS MATERIALIZE FROM A SHIMMERING MIRAGE of heatwaves that dance on the blasted surface of this desert wasteland. They are men of legend, El Sombrero Blanco, the Pistolero de…
Coins Over Flowers
byWinner of the Bridge Eight Summer Short Story Prize Estimates suggest Nellie Plink started sheening sometime in late December. Her husband of two years first noticed the characteristic iridescent film…
Picture 54
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize Content Warning: Racism, Death, Suicide, OCD, and Self Harm ALEKS WAS A BURDENED MAN OF TWENTY-EIGHT WHO GUARANTEED THE DEATHS…
How to Cut a Pomegranate
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize POMEGRANATE IS HARD FOR KIDS TO PRONOUNCE. It is difficult to wash the red stains from their fingertips and shirt…
Earthbound
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize TEDDY SENT A LEGO MAN INTO SPACE. He sent a pirate into the stars. The macabre, execution style method was…
ShantyLand
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize TODAY WE HAVE A VISITING CLASS OF THIRD GRADERS FROM SIMPLE MINDS MONTESSORI ACADEMY. As their Educational Liaison, I lead…
This Single Length of Rope
byNamed a Finalist for the 2022 Summer Short Fiction Prize MEET THE ROPE. Study with me its twisted construction, follow its long length all the way from London to upstate…