Bugs

Bugs

There are bugs in my apartment. There was a time when that sentence alone would have been the most horrifying thing I could imagine saying about a new home. Due …

The Self-Humiliator

Blocking his view of the gas pumps, gleaming in the bright morning sunshine, a Jurassic monument poses frozen mid-stride in front of the Sinclair station.  The green brontosaurus reminds Zayn …

star-crossed lovers

Star-Crossed Lovers

JONAH Today 1:45 AM Hey… Hey? You’ve been MIA for two months. Seriously? Look, I’m not supposed to be texting you… I really wasn’t. The pen pal assignment only lasts …

Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus and Eurydice 

What would you give to be loved like she loves her?  The music surrounded her; it lived in her, desperate and heartbroken.  Ada sang of her love; she sang of …

Is There a Word for Us?

Is There a Word for Us?

How do I describe myself? I know there are others like me and similarly have fundamental parts of themselves hidden, such hiding being out of necessity and inability to do …

A Whole New World

A Whole New World

“ID”? The person working the front desk asked. Sharon pulled out her ID and slid it to the front desk clerk, who promptly inspected it and let her into the …

Meow Wolf at Fan Expo!

NORM of Meow Wolf and Andrew Moyes, VP of FAN EXPO joint press conference On a brisk Thursday morning outside of Meow Wolf Denver, NORM, the intergalactic alien life form …

Creation of God

By Shimma Ali The ground was hard. I sat hunched on my knees at a rural crossroads in the dead of night. My fingers dug into the dirt, fingernails scratching …

Hello, Father Ernie

By Josiah Hesse Father Ernie was gasping his last breaths when the faces of the children he’d abused appeared before him. It’d been decades since anyone called him “Father,” but …

WTF!!! (in red)

By Roseanna Frechette Art by Lonnie MF Allen You drag yourself up the stairs like some kind of rock star zombie on Benzos from heaven. “WTF!!!” you have just texted …