short fiction

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ByBenjamin DeHaan

Gim of P

I’m licking mala algae off a thin yellow and blue P sheet that says Nutterfinger when I notice the walls in my home are vibrating.

ByChristopher Rowe

Dolly Girl

Connie had been born with a Whisper Girl wrapped around her neck. This presented difficulties suffered by no one else any of those troubled, dark-eyed women ever knew.

ByA.V. Greene

The Monster Fucker Club

The six of us—well, five after Sophie left—were friends because we all understood why she kept going back, again and again.

ByTim Pratt

An Inventory of the Property of the Escaped Suspect, Confiscated at the Time of Her Arrest Following the Incident on Ash Street, with Annotations by Acting Sheriff Helena Fairwind

One purse, faux-alligator, with a broken clasp [Faux? Hmm. Alligator? Double hmm. Something with scales anyway.]

BySuyi Davies Okungbowa

a book cover with a picture of an egyptian god.

Lady Koi-Koi: A Book Report

At about 2:30AM on Saturday 16 February 2019 (I know because I always look at the clock when I wake up), I woke up in the hostel because my bed was shaking.

ByP.A. Cornell

I don’t know why my owner brought me to the abandoned scrapyard rather than trade me in. Nor why instead of placing me next to the compactor with the other machines, he walked me over to an old, metal bench and told me to sit before leaving me.

ByValerie Kemp

Smoke Fire Wind Sea

You think you are broken. Scattered into a thousand jagged pieces, but when you reach the sea you are whole. Painfully, heartbreakingly whole. And alone.

ByTre Harris Salas

the cover of apex magazine issue 138 with a picture of an egyptian winged creature.

Chupa Sangre

She mumbled about my mother a lot, dreaming of times before she died. Sometimes I waited and listened, eager to hear my mother’s name spoken in such a soft way. Other times I couldn’t stand the sound of it.

ByMarian Denise Moore

A Mastery of German

Somewhere in the world, there is a man, seventy years old, a native New Orleanian who has never left the city except for the occasional Category 5 hurricane.