09.14.2023 by Roman D'Ambrosio 09.14.2023 by Roman D'Ambrosio Air Tokyo: A One Act Play We’re both in Tokyo at 4am? There must be something bigger than us, holding a moment between two people. How could you leave a world like that? - Roman D'Ambrosio
09.04.2023 by Juan Emar 09.04.2023 by Juan Emar The Waiting Room Let us begin by delimiting the fat man: to the north, the tip of his bowler; to the south, the tips of his boots; to the east and west, the far edges of hat, ears, neck, shoulders, arms, hips, thighs, legs, feet.
08.02.2023 by Anika Jade Levy 08.02.2023 by Anika Jade Levy August This man was unbearable, but because he was the first person to be sufficiently violent with me during sex, I let it go on longer than I should. - Anika Jade Levy
05.24.2023 by Dan Callahan 05.24.2023 by Dan Callahan The Queen of the Aragon Ballroom Broke and half-starved, Mary has one key consolation: her music is everywhere.
02.17.2023 by Christopher Stoddard 02.17.2023 by Christopher Stoddard Mrs. Diet Coke "The whole he-had-his-whole-life-ahead-of-him sob story is such a cliché. The only difference between croaking young and dying old is your adjectives: pretty with potential or wrinkled with regret. At least Bryce looked hot in his casket."
11.28.2022 by Tim Loperfido 11.28.2022 by Tim Loperfido Emergency Contact "Our mother had taught us something that many people don’t realize—it takes work to become a drunk. It’s no easy endeavor."
08.30.2022 by Meredith Talusan 08.30.2022 by Meredith Talusan The Perfect Length The line between life and fiction is blurred when an MFA student turns her writing class into a short story
08.15.2022 by Blake Butler 08.15.2022 by Blake Butler Two Stories If you change, you’ll save everyone. If you don’t change, then this is hell and will remain hell for forever left to pay. Just nod your head if you comply. - Blake Butler
08.08.2022 by Brad Phillips 08.08.2022 by Brad Phillips Diary of a Dipshit "I used to think as a young teenager that certain types of women only lived inside the television, or that if they were real, they were remnants of a great and now extinct world."
07.22.2022 by Isaac Babel 07.22.2022 by Isaac Babel The King In this 1921 story by Isaac Babel, a “king” of gangsters is informed of an imminent police raid as he prepares to host a Jewish wedding feast.