Issue 1 - Third Point Press

Google 1

By Paul Fauteux As a less-than-stellar youth I googled “shaving pubic hair” and found a man who said “I want

Hawking and Squawking

By Daniel W. Thompson I told them birds to shut it up. I said, you can’t be hawking and squawking

I Watch Dishes

By Alina Stefanescu the woman is a blend a detail-buster harem moving with duster memory being flummoxed feeling I’m watching the

Doll

By Elizabeth Mercurio she sighs when I take her out the same dumb doll who bleeds for me she has

Sub Rosa

By Tantra Bensko When weird things happen to me, sometimes I wonder. Is it because my Palatine German ancestors kept

Timeshare

By Dolan Morgan I open the deer with a knife and put my bags inside. It’s dusk in the cul-de-sac.

The Meyers Briggs

By Arielle Lipset I know I exist. Yours are the eyes carving my dust into small piles of nothing You

oedipus / body imaginings

By Cliff Lynn oedipus I could never be sure but I grew up with an idea that the woman who

Where We Bury Our Dead

By Robert James Russell When I was a girl my mom would tell me stories about her people. They came

Swollen River

By Fikret Pajalic The hand-written sign taped to the sliding doors of my local supermarket said Night-filler Wanted – Apply Within.

A Murmur at Nevermore by Jenn McCreary*

By Travis Macdonald He melts through time like a statue. & he breaks at the bloody riddle with his boomerang

Houses

by Samantha Sweigert I named the light switches. Said goodnight to little things. (Green Street) We didn’t talk about the garage

Cold Earth

Lucas & Derrick Cullen are twin gill-swimmers who have been striving against the current of banality for over two decades.

Glow in the Dark / Our New Business Model for the Second Half of this Decade

By Michael Salgado Glow in the Dark Sample Specialist 9 walked into the lab and said, “We’re missing a radioactive

You Have What I Want (An Excerpt)

By Chelsea Laine Wells Jodi: seventeen and itchy hot restless, her heart revving high and hard like a machine about

Masc 4 Mask

By Tyler Gillespie Told myself I’d never fuck a married MAN, but now on my knees, can’t keep my word.

Taking Care

By Al Kratz It was my job to take care of the dead animals and I was a dedicated worker.

Tribal Luminescence

By Gillian Ramos My grandfather is dying in a crowded room, surrounded by sons and daughters, doctors and nurses, a

Summers

By Madeline Anthes In Indiana there were fewer people than cornstalks and everyone looked related. The boys scared me. They

About Planet You / To the Telemarketer at the Other End of the Ringing

By Le Hinton About Planet you Maybe I know a problem I

Economic Update

By Vanessa Jimenez Gabb Working class wages have risen by 5-6% in China, where billionaires exist more than anywhere else,

Editor’s Note

A few things about this process are, and I suspect will continue to be, weird. First, I didn’t realize that

Silver / Fleet Street

By J. Bradley Silver Neil uses me as a booster seat, grips the steering wheel. “You know what to do, right,”