Stories
AFTER LIFE – Nicholas Clemente
NO CASH LEFT ON PREMISES OVERNIGHT – Patrick Daniel
Dead Vermillion Skies – Johannes Göransson & James Pate
NANCEY & HER VODKA – Brian Pester
The Valeries, Synthesizer Transmission (an excerpt) – Forrest Muelrath
St. Anne’s Day, or The Frog Funeral – Gabriel Smith
something like hope – Mike Canney
Two Eulogies – Matthew McGuirk
Drag it Out Back – Bryan Michael
On the Brutality of the Soul – Bailey Snow
Terminarch – David Vonderheide
Expat from Wuhan – Nathan Pettigrew
A Home for Jebediah – Gabriel Hart
A Tale of Crepuscular Summer – Peter Schutz
Yoked to Time – Rekha Valliappan
The Maggot in the Mind of My Room – Peppy Ooze
PROHIBITION AGAINST THE USE OF FORCE – David Armando Rosales Giron
evacuation proceedings – Judson Hamilton
When I Die I Want To Become A McDonald’s™ – Sean Chua
EVERYTHING YOU’LL EVER KNOW ABOUT ME
Post-Mortalism in Dale Caps – Peter Tyree Morrison Colwell
And what if Lolita had a Pen? – Marika Engelhardt
Bullshit Technician – Anonymous
Never Cursed – Isabella Israel
Mother Farmer Chicken Shiner – Steve Passey
Stacking Plates – Joshua Chaplinsky
The Hard Woke Tutelage of Okey Honkey – Tia Ja’nae
Looking for Color – Andrew Jacono
Can’t Find Chuck Berry on the Radio – John Crawford
INTRUDER! – James Krendel-Clark
Brainard Bullion: Creative Consultant – Mark Blickley
Pokémon Apocalypse – Yuya Sakurai
Happy, Ergo Futureless – Teddy Burnette
My Lived Experience – SG Phillips
Two for Eternity – Russell Thayer
In the Darkness Before Dawn – Wilson Koewing
Rose, An Epithet – Jane Copland
Whoever Suffers in the Body – Ann Manov
Pitchfork After Scythe – Gabriel Hart
a short story about the wolf at the bottom of my garden – Katy Naylor
Levitating Shards of Glass (IV. Seagate) – Waldo Pardon
A cup of flesh & bone – Kaisa Saarinen
Henry Kissinger Will Never Die – Daniel Lukes
This was a Performance – Teddy Burnette
Lend Me Your Light – Lindsay Temple
Land of the Free – Kyle Seibel
How Brave, to Predict the World’s End – Curtis Eggleston
Quantum Diaper Punks – Stuart Buck
Descartes’ Demon – Andrew Davie
Warm Sun: Los Angeles – Jiv Johnson
Heinous – Nicola Maye Goldberg
This Will Make a Man out of You – Gwen Hilton
AWS (Augustine Web Solutions) – J M F Casey
MONKEYSHINES – David Gianatasio
A Deserter Dreams of Tiny Dogs – Garth Miró
Burn Me To Ash – Chandler Morrison
Chasing the Suburban Dragon – Dutch Simmons
You Can Renew Your Vows at Chuck E. Cheese Anytime You Like – Claire Hopple
The AF Collective’s Ghetto Aristocracy [excerpt] – Mango Jones
Neighbor, Cousin, Writer, Patient – Allistair May
Boy With Antlers – Sean Duffield
The Slutz of Urik Petrushkevych – Colin Gee
Swan Necks Like Swords – Autumn Christian
I Thought I Left You In The Countryside – Keegan Swenson
One Tiny, Tiny, Tiny Move – Brendan Gillen
death driving to the taco bell to get a black cherry slushie – Aonghas Cameron
Homeless Enlightenment – Curtis Eggleston
Numerological Enlightenment – Curtis Eggleston
3 GRSTALT Fictions – GRSTALT Comms
Astrological Enlightenment – Curtis Eggleston
Turtle Enlightenment – Curtis Eggleston
The Devil from You – Max Thrax
Enlightenment^2 – Curtis Eggleston
What I Learned About Women in Las Vegas – Calvin Atwood
Arm Wrestling – K. Gene Friedman
Gloxinia Enlightenment – Curtis Eggleston
Frank Ocean Enlightenment – Curtis Eggleston
Steak Night – Joseph Marczynski
A City Surrounded by Forests – n mack
1974: The Ambiguous Character of a Woman Like Mitzi Hubbock – Braden Timss
Fiction Reader/Writer – Derek Maine
A Hot Knife Which Reveals a Disclosure Concerning Survival – Sam Heaps
Whiskey Tango Hotel – Jillian Luft
When Rob Got Hit by a Car – Dan Melling
Group Therapeutic Enlightenment – Curtis Eggleston
It’ll Find You All the Time – Jane Black
The Rotfrauder – William Tidwell
Mortality Signal – Brendan Williams-Childs
Speedrun Enlightenment – Curtis Eggleston
Excerpt from the Novel of a Forgotten German Modernist – SG Phillips
Strange Captive – James Nulick
Before and After the Flood – Troy James Weaver
I am a Glory Hole – Mark Wilson
Society of Sunseeking Individuals with Devil May Care Attitudes – Augie Cal
The Only Factory Man – N.A. Gleason
The Hoffler Journals 1 – Jai Knight
Lena & Valerie – Genevieve Jagger
The Floating Beast – Jon Berger
Arriving in Grand Central [excerpt from The Valeries] – Forrest Muelrath
Born for a Noose – Stephen J. Golds
dancing with a crescent knife and a skull full of blood – Joel Kopplin
AEROSMITH HEROIN – Shane Jesse Christmass
You Won’t Know You’re Dead Until You Try It – Heath Ison
Meth Love (excerpt from Gag) – Sybil Rain
The Disappearing Subject: An Excerpt from The Factory of Russian dolls – Daniel J. Cecil
Excerpt from Purgatory – Ian Townsend
fragments of CONTEMPT – Anthony Dragonetti
King Crimson, Lee from Asda, Optimus Prime, and The Abyss – Daniel Fraser
Back Alley Blues – M.E. Proctor
The Devil Reversed – David Peak
an organizational chart(poem) on being – Michael Farfel
Bruxism [excerpt] – Daniel Breuer
Saving Throws – Michael McSweeney
Ridge Ending – Curtis Eggleston
The Space Between Two and Three – Gabriel Hart
Birthday 2 – Manuel Marrero & plasticbagger
The Wrong Elevator – Karter Mycroft
Coda for a Killing – Reese Avery
Don’t Worry, I’m Clean – Chandler Morrison
Almond Milk Saves Lives – Alex Antiuk
A Gallon of Water – D.T. Robbins
King of the Castle – William Wright
Crowded Afterlife – Sean Ennis
The Consumption of the Vessel Sarah – Daniel Beauregard
Time to Dance – Bram Riddlebarger
Concentric Fizzles – Jonah Howell
Lieutenant Frotteur – Rose Landra
Things That Didn’t Happen – Sybil Rain
June 14th 1645 – Naseby, England – Stuart Buck
Something I Do Alone – Alisha Wexler
The Lone Palm – Jordan Sullivan
Black and White – Charlie Chitty
When Your Dad Isn’t Your Dad Anymore – Tim Frank
Pretending to Fence – SG Phillips
A Neighborly Assault – Dave McLeod
A S I N G L E L I G H T B U L B – Bill Whitten
Bar Rot – Felicia Rosemary Urso
As Long As You Need – Tyler Peterson
REVERSE-PLAY [excerpt] – Logan Berry
The Second Death – Jordan Sullivan
A Fun Dinner Date – Myra Glass
Flesh and the Material World – Gabriel Hart
Room for Good Food – Kenneth Randle Landers
Ripped in the Streets – bibles
Electric Funeral – Farah Rose Smith
And You a Surface Lie Flat – Derek Maine
Year of the Plague Rat [excerpt] – Randall Leong
Double Doom – Doom in the West
Averbroke Mountain (Time Glitch Shuffle) – Jai Knight
Friends After Fifty – Jane DIESEL
Preservation – Alexander Kattke
Ode to the Bennu Bird – Michael Savignano
Prayer Tones – Curtis Eggleston
Power Through Scent – Patrick Kilgore
Catfish Creepypasta (HAUNTED GAMEBOY ADVANCE CARTRIDGE) – Danielle Keller
Vegetable Humanity [excerpt] – Jacob Louis Beaney
Texts from an Ex-Wife on June 1st Through 6th 2013 – Jake Blackwood
Tequan Is On Bicycle – Homeless
Scribble Daemon – Viv Cartagena
I Hate Walmart – Patrick Kilgore
The Poets Next Door – Josh Vigil
Election Correspondence – New York Team
Illuminato [excerpt] – Maté Jarai
Noises [excerpt] – Joel Kopplin
Crashed to the Ground – Dawson Wohler
Letter to Manuel Puig – Louis Armand
As the Curtain Falls – Tim Frank
club club heart club club club club – Jane Judith
Inherit My Life – Eric Aldrich
The All-The Way House – Gabriel Hart
every life is a closed universe – Darragh Savage
Bruce in his Chair – Derek Maine
Killing the Succubus – Ryan Madej
Twenty First Century-and-then-some Transcendentalism – Connor Davis
speedy and dumb (or infinitely numb) – Elizabeth V Aldrich
The No-Fly List [excerpt] – Alex Beaumais
*THE FAMOUS PIANO PLAYER CRASHED HIS CAR DURING A SNOWSTORM* – Bill Whitten
The Piss that Misses the Pot (Even Our Bodies are Disembodied) – Joshua Rodriguez
Nothing Ever [excerpt] – Michael Mc Aloran
Requiem for a Cat – Derek Maine
Jump [from PROWL] – Sean Kilpatrick
Circus of Perversion – John Downing
Meet Me at the Supermarket – Benjamin Welton
A Modern Romance (beginning/ending) – Jai Knight
advertisement3 – Marston Hefner
Abstinence Anna – Elizabeth V Aldrich
American Victim [excerpt] – Meg McCarville
Falling Sky [excerpt] – Jeff Vande Zande
Depression Recipe 1 – John Larson
Tar Plus Empire – Rachel Lilim
A Rash of Suicides – Alexandrine J. Ogundimu
Zone 4: Clinical Lycanthropy / La Bocca Al Lupo – Daniel Beauregard
In the Places of the Paths – Michael Savignano
whoops did too much – KKUURRTT
Sleeping Phoebe – Charlie Chitty
Anything That Moves – T.W. Selvey
The Dove Also Shall Dwell with the Dog – Réka Nyitrai
Black Echo Jungle – Jai Knight
doublewide book of the dead – Chris Benton
Excerpts from the Bacanora Notebooks: The Beast – Mather Schneider
Cult of Infants [excerpt] – Michael Savignano
Finn Almost Buys a Goldfish – Chris Cooper
Armed Response Raid 27.07.2020 – E.F. Fluff
Mill Town Maleficia – Scollay Under
a pale light from a window on high – Hestia N/A
The Head Commissioner’s Tale – Michael McSweeney
Thrash Metal Miniseries Pitches of Video Game Fanfic – Sean Kilpatrick
A Murmuration of Apples; Her Snowbanks of Lonely Night – Réka Nyitrai
Marauding Through the Night – J S Khan
Fluctuation [excerpt] – Kristina Golec
Revolution is not a Dinner Party – Hestia N/A
Conway’s Last Dance – Benjamin Welton
Shooting Blanks (Not So Super Now) – James Stelzer
The Most Fearsome Thing – Joanna Rafael Goldberg
The AF Collective’s Poison Path [excerpt] – Emanuel Magno
Fabrication [excerpt] – Kristina Golec
Schizoid Screaming – Hestia N/A
Why You Will Never Be Able to Endure a Chinese-Style Lockdown – Sean Bronson
The Gentleman Balloonist [excerpt] – Ian Kappos
Lost and Jealous – Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich & Tom Thirst
several feet above a river – Jack Joseph
the shock vortex – Jonathan Hine
please please – Lindsay Lerman
Ocean Condo 2005 – Chaotic Nightslayer
Whiteface [excerpt] – Sam Burnett
Jidohanbaiki Nightmare – Dale Brett
Science Fiction Double Feature – Alexandrine J. Ogundimu
My Suite – Joanna Rafael Goldberg
Worthless in Bangcock – Dale Brett & James Krendel-Clark
Red Riding Hood – Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich
It Lays Screaming Under Lochmere – Charlie Chitty
POSTURING: The Pursuit of Being [excerpt] – Teddy Duncan Jr.
The Curtain of Oz – Dawson Wohler
Visegrad [excerpt] – Duncan Robertson
Study of a Virtual Headspace – MJ Szalay
The Horror and Monotony of Bees – Yuna Winter
the best of the bad places – Jonathan Hine
Learning to Live – Caleb Caudell
This One Thing – Daniel Eastman
asl – Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich
WHEN DID I FALL? – Jeremiah Benson
I WANNA BE YOUR DOG: An Excerpt from GITANES – Fawzy Zablah
Cracking Open a Cold One with the Void – Doom in the West
First Quarter 2020 – Cody Roggio
Tonight’s Notes on Iris (extract from Somehow Still Happening) – Sam Machell
Waiting for Lulu – Andy Martin
Salt of the Earth – Ted Prokash
Kinsbury Parish Sacrificial – Gregory Yelnish
Outtake from the Novel “Venice” – T.J. Larkey
LEFTOVERS or (A TAPEWORM IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST) [excerpt] – J.A. Rodriguez
Glasgow Grin – James Krendel-Clark
Birthday – plasticbagger & Manuel Marrero
The Keys to Beyond – Charlie Chitty
Untitled by Anonymous – Alexander Kattke
Double Standards – James Stelzer
BOB’S BOMB SHELTER – Matt Zbrog
The Further Adventures of Cancer – Jack Dermal-Kernels
A Lass of Cinnabar – Candy Rhizomatic
Heaven on Earth (Wandering Thoughts) – plasticbagger
Someone’s Blue – Joanna Rafael Goldberg
Lost in the Woods – Charlie Chitty
American Descendentalism – SG Phillips
9-5 at the Wey Forward Hive – Sam Machell
Robert and Marianne – James Krendel-Clark
THE GASLAMP BALL – Matthew Steven Birt
Blue Darkness – Nathaniel Duggan
The Small Sign Above the Door says ‘Sortie’ – Daniel Ross
Excerpt: Chapter II of Boingers! A Club for Gentlemen – Ted Prokash
hey universe long time no _ – Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich
I ONLY SAW YOU AFTERWARDS. – Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich
When death won’t solve your problem – Maggie Siebert
Independent Business Owner – Charlie Chitty
Meat Parts – Joanna Rafael Goldberg
PLEASE BECOME GOD – Jane Judith
Two Glass Tombstones – Sam Machell
Players in a Scenario – Joanna Rafael Goldberg
Reflections on a Novel in Progress – James Krendel-Clark
Yellow Hand \o/ – plasticbagger
Tera [from PROWL] – Sean Kilpatrick
LOL – Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich
Perfect Day in the Countryside – Charlie Chitty
Geo-Effigy Walkthrough – Mike Corrao
Fallen Children – Charlie Chitty
Gifted [excerpt] – Dennis Pells
Habibi Baby, Are You Listening? – Fawzy Zablah
a day in gay utopia – Corey Qureshi
My Name is My Name – Peppy Ooze
Nikki Land#Intervapeur – Kenji Siratori
Fascinating Friends – DJ Pendeja
Scaffold as Cold as Gdansk – Jonah Howell
Through the Screen Door – E.W. (ꈍᴗꈍ)
Salinger’s Cutpurse – Daniel Ross
RedBlackInfinite [excerpt] – Alexander Kattke
The Divine Order of Throbbing Violent Cosmic Love – James Krendel-Clark
Strip Club Train Station – Dale Brett
suicideolympix – Elizabeth Victoria Aldrich
The Marianas Trench [excerpt] – Ryan Madej
Space and Awareness of Space – Bobbi Lurie
Failure in Green – Jonah Howell
#DarlaPomPom [excerpt] – Suzanne Crain Miller
st1mulus z3r0 [excerpt] – Will Bernardara Jr.
Cocaine Doom Meet With Video On Zoom – James Krendel-Clark & Eris.exe
Efforts [excerpt] – Taylor Napolsky
Petulant Angel – Amie Norman Walker
SHATTERED STATE – James Krendel-Clark & W. Carter Halbrooks
Here Lies Pattie Walsh [excerpt] – Dennis Pells
Elves Included – James Ezra Krendel-Clark
Once Upon an Osama bin Laden – Fawzy Zablah
Merry Christmas Forever – G.P. DeSalvo
Famine or (Get the Hell Outta Here While You Still Can) [excerpt] – Joshua Rodriguez
My Father Kills Everything – Jon Berger
Barnable Crimmus – G.P. DeSalvo
92nd Street Speedheart – Eris Mohr
Tiger’s Sad Excuse for a Life – Maté Jarai
The Second Time We Tried to Escape Cuba – Fawzy Zablah
What Once Was & Will Never Happen Again – Kai Edward Warmoth
The Part About the Scratch [excerpt] – Fawzy Zablah
Vivo Fino Alla Fine – Tony Nesca
BAYWATCH AS A BIOSPHERE – Shane Jesse Christmass
The Story of Medved [excerpt] – Ted Prokash
MTV Impressionism – Marc Labelle
Cursed Tales – Zachary H Loewenstein
Your 7:45pm Class has been Cancelled – Dale Brett
Into the Vortex [excerpt] – Brian Eckert
Railway Sleeper – Calvin Westra
Four of Anything is a Frame – Theresa Smith
Temporary Like a Cheeseburger – Michael O’Brien
A Good Wife – César Valdebenito
The Slaughterhouse of Dream – S.M.H.
Role of the Victim and/or Survivor – Damien Ark
Fluorescent Insects – Matthew Lovitt
How to Fake It – Theresa Smith
Stench of the Snake – Joshua Rodriguez
Lost in Translation – Manuel Marrero
The Intricate Voids – John Whitman
The Missionary Killings – S.M.H.
Fucked Up [excerpts] – Damien Ark
Well This Trip Fuckin’ Sucks So Far – Homeless
The Olive Farmer – Fawzy Zablah
Old Damage – Anthony Dragonetti
Baby Head Baseball – Ted Prokash
A Brief History of El Salvador Circa 1981 – Fawzy Zablah
Kaddish for Saddam Hussein – Fawzy Zablah
Glory Hole Apartments – Meeah Williams
Land of 1,000 Lousy Ideas – Ted Prokash
The Sentinel – Anthony Dragonetti
Two Poems, One Story – David Estringel
The Kings of Salsa – Isabella Esser-Munera
What Type of Cheese are You? – Marisa Crane
The Miracle Wagered – Joseph Harms
What We Do With Our Bodies – Stephen Mortland
Chicory Knife Slave – Bibles Appropouture
Stephen Hopkins – William Bardot
The Electric Jailhouse Acid Test – Ted Prokash
Eject me a Cigarette – John Fowora
Continuing Unscientific Postscript on Time – Theresa Smith
Taking a Semester off to Drive Around the Country in a Monster Truck – Blake Middleton
The Object of this Story – Theresa Smith
This Hasn’t Been a Very Magical Journey So Far – Homeless
Dear Marshall, Language is Our Only Wilderness – Heather Sweeney
The Dying Princess – Kyle Hemmings
Turn a Mirror Back in on Itself + A City Bound by the Corpse of the Habitual – Meg Tuite
Casino Non Grata – Nooks Krannie
Maybe If I RT Myself Some More, I’ll Feel Better – JM Dalton
Who Among Us Has Not Stepped Through This Door? – Theresa Smith
The Cycle of Swords – Ryan Bry
Kecked Out – Bibles Appropouture
Smith Shuts His Eyes (Life or Death – Final Installment) – Patrick Pineyro
You in Other People – Jennifer Gruber
Story of the Aurochs (Life or Death – Fifth Installment) – Patrick Pineyro
Or What If (Life or Death, Fourth Installment) – Patrick Pineyro
Potential Energy (Life or Death, Third Installment) – Patrick Pineyro
How Very Urbane American of You – Manuel Marrero
It Won’t Stop Bleeding – Wyatt Noble
The Certainty Principle: A Possibility (Life or Death, Second Installment) – Patrick Pineyro
Life or Death, First Installment – Patrick Pineyro
Thousands of Lies – Manuel Marrero
. . . baptized in the fuck zone 1934 . . . – Manuel Marrero
“Notes from the Pokey” – Tiger Moody
The Best Algo I’ve Ever Seen – Theresa Smith
Compliments of Bath & Kitchen Palace – Theresa Smith
City of my Life: Stories about Maiami III – Dan Brat
The Double Bass – Miguel Vidal
Blank Engines of the Spirit – Theresa Smith
(but it just don’t work on you) – Ian Phlegming
The Most Vulnerable Brains – Cory Popp
I am a Tetrahedron – Theresa Smith
The Most Vulnerable Brains – Cory Popp
The Most Vulnerable Brains – Cory Popp
City of my Life: Stories about Maiami II – Dan Brat
A Goddamned Dream – Eric Cecil
City of my Life: Stories about Maiami – Dan Brat
The Third Timekeeper – Theresa Smith
Anything You Want – Foster Siren