Thriving amidst a pile of dead leaves, the white-capped mushroom looked like a tasty find. Travis glanced between the living specimen to...

you said i would unravel without you, but i’ve never been so tightly woven within myself as the day there was no more us and i knew your...

For the carnivore, the smell of cooked bacon is a stimulant. It activates the salivary glands and awakens the stomach. Serotonin fills...

I blinked and said my silent thanks to the stars for giving you a receding hairline and bloodshot eyes: subtle signs you weren’t actually...

I love the handful of earth you are as you lay on your back on the ground under the angel oak tree in the morning sun I lay between your...

I fell in love with a boy made of broken glass Bound together by chicken wire and Bid to stay upright by those who call on Sundays. I...

From dusk to dawn, I think of you. I sit in my room and write letters on top of letters, Full of feelings I have tried to construe. From...

The wound has teeth, the wound has a voice, the wound is treatment-resistant, the wound flakes and peels, the wound sings in the shower...

You could Break me right in half with A million filaments of Something like a siphoning; perhaps more of a Carjacking; blighting A most...

he opens the windows, because the brick walls seem to love trapping in [ the heat ] reminiscent of his mother’s arms in youth; [ but the...

She flew to Montreal to end it in person. After all that they had been through with her baby and his wife’s, she knew that it had to...

*This is the winning selection of the Fall 2022 $300 Fall Short Story, Fiction, & Non-Fiction Contest. The first sound was snow falling...