JSA Lowe‘s poems have appeared most recently in DIAGRAM, GASHER, Hobart, Salt Hill Journal, Superstition Review, Third Coast, and Versal, as well as previously in AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, and Salamander. Her chapbooks, DOE and Cherry-emily, were published by Particle Series Books (2008) and Dancing Girl Press (2017). She…
Category: Fiction
Two Short Stories by RL Goldberg
Hatred I do have an anticipatory view of my life. What I expect: someone, a woman, or maybe a very muscular woman, always waiting on the other side of the door. When I open it, she says, “I’ll give you something to cry about.” We begin to talk about this, my therapist and me. She…
“Comrade Naomi Bye” by Cynthia Dewi Oka
“We’ve exhausted all other solutions,” my protégé, Naya, is saying through steepled hands from the top right-hand box of the Zoom gallery. I’ve known Naya since she was a gangly teen shuffling behind her social worker into CHANGE’s then one-room office in Philly, wearing a too-big Free Mumia T-shirt. I took her on as an…
Uterus by Þórdís Helgadóttir Trans. Larissa Kyzer
Elí caught his wife sucking chicken with his best friend. Alís had told him she was going to the gym after work, but then he saw their car outside Óttar’s house as he was biking past. Elí knocked on the door; he tested the knob, found it unlocked, and walked in. There they were,…
Engineer’s Dream by Nick Arvin
Three years passed, and the doorbell rang. There was no warning, no call ahead, no email, no text, no mental preparation. I opened the door – Troy. My brother. Me and Troy. Here is the bitter, tedious backstory of fraternal debacle: Older brother stole younger brother’s girlfriend. And, yes, I despised Troy for it,…
Dog Tar by Trevor Shikaze
I swore I would never make dog tar. “Surely there are other animals,” I would say, “to capture and render in backyard furnaces. Surely we don’t need to resort to dogs.” The realists pushed back: “What are you going to catch, then? Deer? There are no more deer. Rats? Too small. Raccoons? You could…
In Which I Try to Save the World from Total Destruction Through the Power of Art by Emily Mitchell
The man in the apartment next to mine has come here from another planet to destroy civilization. His mission is to go to that facility in Arizona where the government keeps all the really deadly viruses and steal some to release at different points around the globe. Thanks to our modern, international transportation system, they…
Yohanca Delgado
Evanescent Dolores When the alarm bleats at five, she gathers herself, swings her legs over the side of her single bed, and slips her feet into waiting slippers. Her back hurts, and she’s still tired. But she shuffles across the room to the stove and spoons Bustelo into her silver coffeemaker. She turns on the…
M.E. Bronstein
The Electric Gate This is the cover of Ada’s copy of Beyond the Gate of Bone by Madeleine J. Anscombe. The important details: A stain born during a very boring dinner party. Ada always reads under the table even though her mother has told her not to be rude and could you please try to…
Morgan Thomas
Hitching Walk on the right side of the road in a taffeta dress with a parasol on your shoulder, and people will make assumptions. They’ll think you’re down on your luck. They’ll think you’re lost. They’ll think they’re doing you a favor pulling off the road to offer a ride. He pulled off. He pulled…