ISSUE № 

11

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Nov. 2024

ISSUE № 

11

a literary journal in multiple time zones

Nov. 2024

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Coyotes

The reason I ended up alone in Marta’s closet was that being caught by her parents would have changed everything, and in those days...

The Best and Most Intense

The hypnotist knows what he’s doing. The woman in the bed with him has her eyes closed. She was very susceptible. Not everyone is....

Cut

San Francisco (1997) She’d hurt herself in small ways. Nobody knew about it. She’d take a knife and slowly deliberately gently slice her thigh....

Toof or Else

A few days ago Toof started up again, eating only a bit of dog food at a time. He’d race in from the living...

Park Rats

On 420 a guy in a pink bathrobe and magenta boxers runs up and down the bleachers at Ridgeland holding a baseball bat over...

Plan Ahead

Getting knocked up wasn’t part of the plan. I told Hamish, the black guy with the baby bird eyes, that I was going to...

Work

It's Monday and the commuter train is barreling through frigid Chicago suburban morning like a silver thermos, pounding diesel into miles and miles of...

The Lodger

The basement lodger comes packing precious metal. Plastic sheets of commemorative coins. Heavy bars in a duffle bag. Shiny wafers wrapped in thin velvet....

ooo4

They stand in doorways and in corners, leaning against walls in practiced poses of authoritative nonchalance. Their hands are crossed at the wrist behind...

Our Children Would Not Kill Us

I don’t want to give the impression that I was special; yet this was an extraordinary time in my life; I was a wreck,...