fiction

MY SISTER'S WEDDING (2013-2014) // AMANDA CUNDARI

I sat at the bar stool and started feeling philosophical. I sensed that initial lift that I knew would only rise from here on. Captain Morgan has always been a very dear friend of mine since the day he was introduced to me in college...

COMPARING SCARS (2014-2015) // JAKE CLARK

Two hours and forty-four minutes after he appeared from beneath the inflatable archway, Dustin Bailey collapsed down on a chair so hard it slid back several inches from the table...

THE THINGS I SAW (2015-2016) // ALLISON DION

My father did not cry. My grandmother screamed as her knees hit the floor. My brother sobbed. My grandfather sat with his head in his hands, but my father did not cry. When a week had come and gone without a word, he did not cry...

Leave Tonight, Or... (2016-2017) // bobby bachman

She must've squirmed around back there for forty-five minutes straight before she finally decided it wasn't going to work. The backseat was only five feet long; the only solution would be to stick her feet out the window and sleep with her legs up, but she declined because the angle reminded her too much of the missionary position...

Que Sera Sera (2017-2018) // joanna damiani

“I'm calm. Oh, I'm calm. I danced with the devil. He knows where I am at all times. He's got eyes everywhere, even behind bars.” Ginger rolled her eyes and stood, placing her favorite bubbler, “Miracle,” on the etched wooden table...

Eyeless (2018-2019) // steve jordan

When the blind man arrived in the city, he claimed that he had travelled across a desert of living sand. He sat on the corner of the busiest intersection. Most people, busy people, passed him by, paying him no mind. The few that stopped to flick a coin in his, seemingly sorry direction, stopped to listen to his story...

The House at the End of Magcali LanE (2019-2020) // katie mcCauley