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The Party

Rion Amilcar Scott -

Rion Amilcar Scott's debut collection, Insurrections, is now available from University Press of Kentucky. Order here. "The Party" was first published on Joyland in winter...

Uncle Membrance Enunciates a Facelift

Zachary Tyler Vickers -

Memphis rode in the pickup bed with all the killed. In this latitude of Indiana, the hills blasted out for state routes, the embankments...

L.O.R.

Jocelyn Tennant -

Nina and Michelle are missing from the morning meeting. They’re usually in the back corner, angling their lips toward a window cracked just enough...

The Independence Shipping Company

Tobias Carroll -

From the collection Transitory, out now from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Buy it here. -1- Another long day's trawling. I am thankful for the ship. Thankful for...

Society and Others

Tim Conley -

There was a man stranded on a desert island. So we went and rescued him. It turned out that this was not to his...

When the Stillness Comes

Arjun Basu -

The noise from the neighbors’ party interrupted the father's slide show for the last time. A slide frozen on the wall: Furby on the...

Blossoms

Alice Kaltman -

Alice Kaltman’s debut collection of short stories, Staggerwing, is forthcoming this October from Tortoise Books. On the sweltering...

Ghosts You Loved More

Michelle Lyn King -

In late April of my junior year, a boy with intentions that at the time were still unknown to me (as opposed to unclear,...

The Enchantment of Alon

J.A. Bernstein -

1 Sgt. Alon Gar, Battalion 8110 (Reserve), was mystified by this one. He stood along the deck...

Your Children Are Not Your Own

Soili Smith -

Cherie says I’m too smart for my own good. I read too much, use too many big words from big books, she says. This...