Three Fictions by Megan Martin

Way Beyond Good and Evil I should be admiring and appreciating the Cloroxed whiteness of the shower curtain you Cloroxed … More

Essay: Excerpt from TINY GRADATIONS OF LOSS by Nicholas Grider

Tumors that couldn’t have grown fast enough to suffocate her. She died from cancer, she died from causes unknown. With … More

cut from fabric in a secondhand store, unravels our emptiness into closets of cotton, linen, nylon, and silk In the … More

Becky and Coach stand shoulder to shoulder at the sliding glass door and watch what is going on outside. Earlier, … More

I used to think I invented this one word. One day I looked it up and it turned out that … More

Scene 73: Check-in When no one is looking, I pry nails from the wall with my bare hands and I … More

[1] [2] [3] he was a film extra for about a month, driving his Jeep around down by … More

One Camper per Deck Chair One deck chair per camper. No running around the pool except during barefoot poolside relays. … More

At the Book Reading Petals of light from the disco ball lick the author’s forehead. The venue double-booked, a velvet … More

The year boils down (the temperature of boiling water is the area code of Manhattan) to the same forms. And … More

The pots simmered on the stove, and NPR babbled through their steam, cadenced voices delivering the day’s news in careful … More

Only when the last bureaucrat is hung from the entrails of the last capitalist will we realize we cannot eat … More