Bad Survivalist: “What Makes You Feral,” a short story by Julie Wernersbach

What Makes You Feral PIPE BURST. COME EARLY. She rushed. What did she expect? A pipe shattering in mid-air, hard … More

Side A Short Story: “Adults Told Me” by Mark Benedict

Adults Told Me 1. My science teacher told me that life was slapdash. I talked to him after class sometimes; … More

The Tunnels They say the tunnels were built between two wars, but no one knows for sure. To know for … More

Casey Reiland’s work has appeared in trampset, On the Seawall, The Puritan, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC, and you … More

Ghost of Girl The house is beautiful they say but bathtub flows over water spilling in drops then steady stream … More

Dad’s House I go to the café with my machine, but I’m followed by a smell. No one else around … More

Lurking For P.A, C*, J, P, D, and friends The campus’ hallway remained silent since the university’s closure earlier this … More

Ghost Town We stayed in the van while our mom gave the ghost tour. These nights scared my sisters. They … More

Catalog of Nameless Girls I have been sleeping with a married man for the past few months. I know, I … More

Bear, Flower, Ferryman For a long time that morning, the bear occupied herself with a cardboard box. Its walls were … More

Widower One spring afternoon, while Widower was gathering lettuce from the garden, his daughter Lew called out from her siblings … More

A story about potholes, black holes, wormholes, and cats, told in the form of a Nextdoor thread, in hope of … More

Dolphin Adventure Stan arrived home late and flopped like an upright dolphin into his and Linda’s house. Dolphins are almost … More

Dyin’ Lion I know everyone thinks I’m just a cabdriver, but I also work at the zoo. They pay me … More

Phil Shreck is a writer living in Connecticut with his wife and three children. His short fiction has appeared in The … More