“I WAS ABLE,” JAMES SAID, “to ignore it until yesterday; but last night, it was just impossible.” Sitting on his … More
Tag: Fiction
A Story from The Future: Leland Cheuk’s “Frontliners”
I SHUDDERED AFTER REBECCA SAID she’d ordered takeout and toilet paper again. I was getting nowhere with my intramarital campaign … More
Saturday Morning Chapbook: Chase Burke’s LECTURE (Paper Nautilus) reviewed by Nick Almeida
Chase Burke’s stunning chapbook Lecture (Paper Nautilus Press) is filled with tumbledown geniuses. Armor is a recurrent image, and penmanship … More
“Skullface” by Rick Claypool: A Novel Excerpt for The Future
1. A mutant wakes up screaming alone under harsh beams of laboratory light. The humanlike thing cries and clings to … More
The Future: “The Wormhole Nextdoor,” a short story by Tara Campbell
A story about potholes, black holes, wormholes, and cats, told in the form of a Nextdoor thread, in hope of … More
Side A Short Story: “Dolphin Adventure” by Robert Long Foreman
“Interview”: Ben Segal Talks to WORKS Author Grant Maierhofer
Grant Maierhofer’s Works collects four separate books into a sprawling volume that functions simultaneously as a compendium and a bildungsroman, … More
“Two Little Stories about Black Beans”: A Flavor Town USA Fiction by Eli S. Evans
1. I WAS IN MY TWENTIES and living in the sort of apartment one lives in in one’s twenties, ramshackle … More
“The Ocean Is a Desert,” a Side A fiction by Keegan Swenson
“My Mother Has Many Tricks”: A #NoMorePresidents Flash Fiction by Sacha John Bissonnette
In one of Grandma’s stories, she found my mother in the backyard, middle of the night, a blood-soaked possum neatly … More
“Same Green”: A #NoMorePresidents Short Story by Lucciana Costa
IF YOU STAY: IF YOU stay, it will kill you. You will wither, shrink, shrivel up like a slug in salt. … More
“Dyin’ Lion”: A Bad Survivalist Work Fiction by Jonathan Bluebird Montgomery
I KNOW EVERYONE THINKS I’M just a cabdriver, but I also work at the zoo. They pay me to … More
MM/DD/2020: Three Residuals from RESIDUE
These pieces are from the book Residue (forthcoming 05/01/2021), a text/image collaboration of dream-inspired fictions by DD that were prompted … More
“The Marienbad Disaster, Part I – The Doorways of Jadeaux,” a short story for Haunted Passages by Phil Shreck
Phil Shreck is a writer living in Connecticut with his wife and three children. His short fiction has appeared in The … More
BARDS & BREWS READER, a 2016-17 anthology of series performers
BNB logo designed by Emily Weddle Table of Contents FICTION “Shangri La Dee Da“ Dan Mancilla “Bigfoot’s Overcoat“ Matthew Fogarty … More
