“Bear Control”: A Short Story by Jennifer Lynn Christie for Bad Survivalist

Part I: The Beginning WHEN I WAS SMALL, I had dreams of the zoo. Putting mammoth-sized kibble in a … More

“Owls in the Palms : The Uninspired Apartment : Notes from a Lost Decade (1)”: A Bad Survivalist Short Story by Reagan Wiles

THE POLICE LEFT MY iPOD behind on the hillside in front of Red Lobster with my red leather journal, … More

Loie Rawding grew up on the coast of Maine. Her personal work exists as hybrid monster, a cocktail of prose … More

Polling Error THEY CAME IN WITH GUNS and tactical vests and smoke bombs. Shouting about Valhalla or uhuru or liftoach … More

MERLIN KLOTZ SWEATED THROUGH HIS T-shirt with giant lettering that read, “OK BOOMER.” He questioned why he wore it … More

… kill Christian finds itself the happy owner of several (perhaps meaningless, but nevertheless) distinctions in my career, so-called. Perhaps … More

AT NIGHT IT FILLS MY mouth, this unnamable, unmournable ghost. I don’t know who it is, but on calm … More

IT WAS, AS IT ALWAYS is, the cat who first noticed that the number of ghosts squeezing themselves into … More

THE MAN THREADED HIS WAY down the long rows of bodies with an old wheelbarrow, careful as he rolled, … More

OH, JESUS. JUST TRY TO relax. You’re okay. God. You’re okay, I’m right here with you, just like always. … More

Tara Campbell (taracampbell.com) is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse. She received her MFA … More

I have started in with Audio production (freelance for other people and doing my own projects) and my first … More