“from WINSOME SCHERZOS”: Two Haunted Passages Poems by Adam Strauss

Stylus Harbinger of what’s to come and what’s coming pure shitty.Peerless ditty at the end of JuneWhen the swans … More

“The Human in Me”: A Haunted Passages Nonfiction Essay by Amanda Gaines

THE ROOM WAS STACKED FLOOR to ceiling with antique dolls. It was the summer of my senior year of … More

fruit i adopt a cat from the shelter,then forget it in a box.the way it stareswhen i remember. the … More

I LIFTED THE VEIL AND saw ten-thousand writhing maggots. I had found an old, white sheep lying on her … More

MY DOUBLE IS BORED; I tell him it’s not my fault—he still looks at me judgmentally.So we have a … More

The legend is that a bus from the insane asylum crashed near the bridge and patients escaped. One patient … More

In which the monster emerged sludgehearted and fond of hares.And triplets were born of a wish that blew itself … More

MY MOTHER CARRIED BRIGHT COLORED candies with her everywhere. Usually Skittles or M&M’s. It didn’t strike me as odd … More

Chill November On a chill November afternoonmemory of colorclings to skylike pitch dark twigs alivereaching for a summer sunlong … More

“THIS IS YOU,” SHE SAYS, with a riiip to the Styrofoam cup.“When you start out, you are pure and … More

I how the quiver of the camera makes it all seem so mine—my body flying over the bonnie green … More

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

Works of cosmic horror threaten to consume their characters by the end. We expect an ultimate resolution, not necessarily through … More

The Moon Lays Down a No Trick Hand When father left office a rag of colts followed on their … More

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