Issue 1

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
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wLjSbAsV-x0 Lucas & Derrick Cullen are twin gill-swimmers who have been striving against the current of banality for over two
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,”