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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
by Ian Cumings illustration by Lonnie MF Allen As always, I’m screaming when I wake up. Above, my husband offers Ginger her breakfast, a glass of pink Moscato. She sips …
by Jesse Livingston Outside, it was a beautiful spring afternoon. Inside, the cat was floating about eighteen inches above the kitchen table. Kelly and I were standing in the kitchen, …
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 …
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 …
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 …