“Chrysalis Skin” By: Megan Wood
I tug at my dress as I swing my right leg out of the car, quickly followed by my left. I stand up and caterpillars are crawling beneath my skin as I connect eye...
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“The Girl Who Chopped Off Her Wings” By: Iryna Klishch
Her mother sold her to the circus at a young age. When we first saw her, we were surprised to find a pair of golden wings growing from her spine. When asked abo...
“Obviously In Love” By: Catherine Plath
“Have you ever been in love?” he asked, greedily, expecting an answer that without a doubt would include himself. He was a horrible romantic, emphasis on horrib...
“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...
“Dinner for Two” By: R.J. Fox
In an ordinary suburb like so many countless others, Jimmy and Chloe set out for the mundane task of grocery shopping. They did not arrive together. They didn’t...
“The Good Friend” By: Alexandra Stanislaw-Bennett
I’ve made mistakes, plenty. I’m not afraid to admit it. I take responsibility for all of them, even this one. She has brown hair and brown eyes and looks ...
“Son of Man//Sans Mains” & “Lint” By: Connor McGaha
Son of Man//Sans Mains jesus christ drinking on trashbag mountain next to gutter on central. i threw loose change at him on the way to my fucking ...
“Taste” By: Sharon Kurtzman
Margie and I huddled at my kitchen table. “Taste this,” she said. Blindfolded with a cherry-patterned dish towel, I opened my mouth and something lumpy landed o...
“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...
“I Never Went to that Lacrosse Game” By: CLS Ferguson
We stood at the top of those stairs; the ones that led from the major street below, steeply up the hill to the Souplantation parking lot. The stairs where I had...