Fiction by Marcus Pactor: “Cake”

—after Blake Butler The cake reminded me of the twins’ wet sludge food. I could never shovel it well … More

Two Surreal Fictions by Michael Trocchia

The Uninvited It was the scene outside that would be of great consequence, yet they crowded around the uninvited guest, … More

MY SKIN Because I dream of you as skin and door … I know you have been sublime … More

The explorer wakes up on a strange planet with no memory of how she got there, clawing at the … More

Amazon’s warehouses are warehouses of commerce. Every item an American might desire, shelved and organized from floor to ceiling … More

Up in the corner, above my bed, a spider floats in the air. I’ve been watching it for an … More

When the fireplace was so full that the air grew heavy and beads of sweat broke out across his … More

Mike Corrao is the author of Man, Oh Man (Orson’s Publishing) and Gut Text (11:11 Press). His work … More

I. When I was in third grade I got my first job. I helped my neighbor roll all the coins … More

We’d run out of things to blame. Our country, its leader, the economy, cults and crusaders, past lives corrupting … More

The music is quieted and leaves him in an inelegant sprawl. He is my minuet, so stately and the … More

We buy an old house in some up-and-coming Portland neighborhood (see: gentrification; also see: we are the problem, not … More