“#6” By: Thomas Husband
I sat alone in a car on the midnight A train. My phone started beeping. I picked it out of my pocket and looked at the screen. There was a text message for me. ...
Tag: discovery
“I’m Afraid I Let It Bloom” By: Azia DuPont
I grew up in a white skinned bubble I grew up breasts cupped in a white man’s hands I grew up and the bubble stopped feeling safe I’m still realizing the bubble...
“The Burning Truth” By: Victor Clevenger
“I carried out three,” said Dorsey, “I think that it was two girls and a boy, but with the long hair and make-up that these kids wear these da...
“The Organist’s Grandchild” By: Adreyo Sen
Many winters ago, my grandfather lived in Prague. He was a boy then and perhaps, like all boys, a little too apt to be pleased with himself. On the way to schoo...
“Unmasked!” By: Ashleigh Rajala
In a wingback armchair, the kind seen in old drawing rooms and thrift stores, sits a man with a face that had always been hidden. But here I have come, out to a...
“I Want to Leave” By: Hope N. Griffin
Twenty-minutes passed, he had become completely involved. Twenty minutes ago, she had lost interest. She had plans, reservations for dinner and then the theater...
“Bridle” By: Jessica Evans
Darkness comes through the decaying wooden slats of the pen you forced me into last night. It’s time to wake up. Long before I hear your boots plodding along th...
“A Charismatic, Brutal Mormon Boy” By: Amasa Guy Larkins
Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, arise...
“This Is Not a Cake” By: Kate McCorkle
On the final stretch of her eight mile run Morgan became fixated on the last slice of pumpkin praline cake leftover from Thanksgiving—a significant wedge lying ...
“Certain truths of being cynically disillusioned” By: Nicole Johnson
I can tell you why I compare to her. Why I’m just as good as she is. She isn’t any better than me, I’m most certain of it, well nearly. I don’t see why Sammy le...