Fiction
Granite by Zdravka Evtimova
Shon didn’t have enough money. All his friends had forgotten him. He couldn’t pay his sex tax and that meant that he could no longer be a man. He’d be processed into a stone, and he knew he’d be deaf and blind dust. Each particle of the dust he would turn into would [...]
Miles Davis in Blacksburg by Kyle Bradstreet
Their cell phones were still ringing. They were the EMT’s first words when hesitantly and anonymously telling his story to the local reporter.
Working inside the hall he had been assigned a wet body, a hole where a breast should’ve been, and closed the victim’s still horrified eyes—a terrifying sight which had caused him [...]
New Year’s Eve 1980 by Raanan Geberer
"Have you heard the story of Gunny Joe? Who lived way down by the Kokomo? Aaaah, Gunny Joe!”
Rob Rothstein bellowed the nonsensical rhyme at the top of his lungs, right in the middle of the sleazy donut place at 23rd Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan that he had entered to get [...]
The Lonely Life of a Federal Marshall by Paul Esposito
“Penn Station”
“Gotcha”
The passenger looked up to the second story of the brownstone building and pressed his window switch. As the tinted window lowered, his wife could be seen through the sun’s glare off the window of their second floor apartment. She held their daughter in front of her as she stood in [...]
Things That Shaped Him Thus by Jennifer Greidus
I. Hess Esser
Lunch with Lucas Milas was, possibly, one of the worst ideas Hess had in a decade. The man said three sentences in an hour. And he ate a chicken breast. Nothing else. Hess could not even talk him into an illicit beer. And he tried. He [...]