Fiction
July 2018
Mason Binkley, "Mother Had a Strong Arm"
K.C. Mead-Brewer, "Why the Moon Wanes"
June 2018
Erica Peplin, "On The Nose"
Brett Stuckel, "Escapees"
Sophie Rosenblum, "Let’s Talk About What’s Between Us"
Mark Budman, "Love Stories"
Michele Finn Johnson, "Brittle Arms"
May 2018
Eman Quotah, "The Women Bury Qays Forever, as Told by My Grandmother"
David Hansen, "Valley of the Kings"
Lee L. Krecklow, "Ways in Which He Furnished His Apartment"
Kristen Holt-Browning, "The Wolf-Pit Girl"
April 2018
MJ McGinn, "I Wish I Could Put the Title at the End (Cousins)"
Dan Schwartz, "The Moths"
Dan Nielsen, "A Family Unit"
TM Upchurch, "The Whale"
March 2018
Carl Fuerst, "Whimper County, Wisconsin, Date Unknown"
Luca Ricci, "The Announcement"
Elise Blackwell, "Glass House"
Avee Chaudhuri, "The Regency Era"
February 2018
Carol Guess and Aimee Parkison, "Girl in Knots¹"
Erin Kate Ryan, "Natural Hazards"
Arthur Klepchukov, "Rivet Here"
January 2018
Ryan K. Jory, "Skimping on Postage"
Sara Brody, "On the Side of Leaving"
Ridwan Tijani, "The Nomenclature of Things Obtained"
Sarah Jane Cody, "I Was Burning Before This"
Maria Romasco Moore, "Mabel"
December 2017
David Braga, "In Silence"
Blas Ulibarri, "Glass, You Know What I Mean"
Christine Ma-Kellams, "Láng Lái Le (Here Comes the Wolf)"
Armel Dagorn, "A slow, unstoppable devouring of everything"
November 2017
JL Bogenschneider, "Alexanderplatz, One Afternoon"
Pablo Piñero Stillmann, "Ancient Cities"
Andrew Bertaina, "Of Lakes and Swans"
Dustin M. Hoffman, "When We"
Tori Malcangio, "To the woman"
October 2017
Alina Stefanescu, "Clutchings"
August 2017
Melissa Benton Barker, "The Cat"
July 2017
Marléne Zadig, "For Science"
Jonathan Crowl, "Hotel Inheritance"
Marsha McSpadden, "Life, Redacted"
June 2017
Brianna McNish, "The Sea Child"
Diana Clarke, "Wikipedia"
Jeremy J. Teague, "Riding the Wave"
Angela Mitchell, "You Are Not Like Other Children"
May 2017
Nicholas A. White, "Postmortem"
Michael Horton, "Old Smoke"
Jennifer Todhunter, "Matchsticks"
Alex Blum, "Somniloquy"
Becky Mandelbaum, "Future Kings and Sofas"
April 2017
Janelle Drumwright, "Reckless"
Austin Ross, "The Man For The Job"
Mike Minchin, "Birds of Prey"
Claire Polders, "Office Women: Three Portraits and Thirteen Questions"
March 2017
Kip Robisch, "Ambrosia"
Josh Jones, "The Truth About Goldfish"
Kate Myles, "Elegy"
Pete Segall, "Public and Private"
Jennifer Fliss, "Winter Rebirth"
February 2017
Craig Chanin, "Arden"
Michelle Syba, "Family Pack"
Liz Betz, "On Behalf of Women"
Paula Read, "Pillow Talk"
January 2017
Shome Dasgupta, "The Bullies"
Darci Schummer, "The Interloper"
Emrys Donaldson, "The Oracle of Exit 24"
Steve Edwards, "Heaven and Earth, Horatio"
December 2016
Jennifer Lynn Krohn, "Another End Of The World"
Catherine Sexton, "Berkshire Spor"
Matt Briggs, "The Fence Maker"
Tarık Dursun K., "Oh, My Life"
November 2016
Xenia Taiga, "Food"
Matt Rowan, "When the robots arrived"
Brandon Taylor, "Birds of the Air"
Christine Hennessey, "The Arborist"
Emily Livingstone, "The Magic"
October 2016
Anna Rowser, "Breaking Down"
Maria Pinto, "The Barren Trophy Wife Makes Tea"
Mallory McMahon, "Just-in-Case Stones"
September 2016
Namrata Poddar, "Excursion"
Angélica Gorodischer, "Absit"
Michael Somes, "No Es Facil"
Peter D. Gorman, "Eyepatch"
August 2016
Sarah Beaudette, "Please Do Not Delay"
Dana Diehl, "The Boy Who Turns to Toads"
Tara Isabel Zambrano, "Anatomical"
Maureen Langloss, "Gifts from My Mother"
Anna Cabe, "Talk to Me"
July 2016
Shannon McLeod, "Point of Transference"
Virginia Konchan, "Winners"
Brad Beauregard, "Astronauts Anonymous"
Kathryn Michael McMahon, "You and Then Some"
June 2016
Rebecca Tirrell Talbot, "Cedar Waxwings"
Jennifer Fliss, "Degrees"
William Squirrell, "Jerusalem"
Michelle Ross, "Galactagogues"
Robert Shapard, "Lobster"
May 2016
Nancy Au, "Ephemeroptera"
Lori Sambol Brody, "River of Running Lava"
Wyatt Bonikowski, "After the Storm, The Cement Ship"
Doug Benerofe, "Kaddish For The Part Of Myself That Is Most Like My Father"
April 2016
Lynne Barrett, "Returning"
Marian Ryan, "SUV"
Alicia Bones, "Backscratchers"
Erinrose Mager, "Dream Date"
March 2016
Elisabeth Dahl, "Late Bloom"
Kate Russell, "Mountains"
Nina Ficenec, "By Morning"
Kathleen Rooney, "Le Retour de Flamme"
February 2016
Virginia Castiglione, "Corpseless Shrouds"
Caitlin Kindervatter-Clark, "Cashmere"
Sacha Siskonen, "Birthright"
Julie C. Day, "The Woman in the Woods"
January 2016
Mahesh Raman, "Swap Space"
Amy Silverberg, "Murder Sounds"
DeMisty D. Bellinger, "Cat, Catfish, Cat"
Jonathan Johnson, "Some For Myself"
December 2015
Ioanna Mavrou, "The Last Time I was Near a Volcano"
Lawrence Neil, "Glen Grove"
Elizabeth Green, "Thrill"
Carmen Petaccio, "Neighborly"
Leila S. Chudori, "Excerpt from Home"
November 2015
Victoria Miluch, "Postscript with Lost City"
Fiston Mwanza Mujila, "Excerpt from Tram 83"
Roger Real Drouin, "Birds of Dusk"
Erica L. Williams, "Keeping Up Appearances"
October 2015
Tim Raymond, "Moose"
Carlotta Eden, "Beehive"
Michelle Ross, "Like Pulling Teeth"
Julie McArthur, "Disconnect"
September 2015
Courtney Gustafson, "Countenance"
Jan Stinchcomb, "Purse Baby"
Meg Pokrass, "Too Easy To Touch"
Daniel Enjay Wong, "Coelacanth"
Nicole Simonsen, "When Men Hunted Polar Bears"
August 2015
Melissa McDaniel, "No One Left To Bury Them"
Garrett Biggs, "A degree of seismologic disorder"
Star Spider, "Must Speak Dove"
Jacqueline Kharouf, "The Jacket"
July 2015
Leslie Anne Jones, "Victim One"
Jennifer Christie, "Tying the Knot"
Jenny Xie, "People Mountain, People Sea"
Anita Felicelli, "The Lookout"
Louise Marburg, "Stick Shift"
June 2015
Michele Finn Johnson, "Lunar Facts"
Sarah Broderick, "The Salamanders"
N.T. Arevalo, "The Boy at the Embassy"
Anna Lea Jancewicz, "Twice, Three Times, Four"
May 2015
Gabriel Urza, "Baby"
Christopher Santantasio, "Hemisphere"
Regina Tavani, "Nights in Venice"
Timothy Schirmer, "Dance With Me Liar"
April 2015
Theodore Carter, "Shorebird"
Karen Munro, "The Dead Must Make Way for the Living"
Bree Barton, "The Sojourn"
Keith Lesmeister, "The Ice Silo"
Christopher DeWan, "Rapunzel's Tangles"
March 2015
Emily Livingstone, "Transmutation"
Nichole LeFebvre, "Aberrations, Anomalies"
M.A. Kinghorn, "Searching for an Afterlife"
Crispin Oduobuk, "First Day"
February 2015
Dane Elcar, "The Legend of Monte Sur"
Deborah Steinberg, "A Certain Synesthesia"
Ashley Burnett, "Howling"
Megan Byrne, "The Tree Planted By Water"
January 2015
Tim Love, "Correspondence"
Chris Rice, "Another Dreamy Being"
Garrett Socol, "Thirty Thousand Feet"
Niyah Morris, "On the Mortality of Birds"
December 2014
Rob Roensch, "Burn This"
Amanda Leduc, "The Centaur's Wife"
Maia Nikitina, "Cossacks and Robbers"
Thomas Cardamone, "Say"
Dan Townsend, "Teacher of the Year"
November 2014
Dave Petraglia, "The Garden Sky"
Carroll Sun Yang, "Ghost Prostitute for War Vets"
Claire Comstock-Gay, "If You See Something"
Stephen Guppy, "A Murder"
October 2014
Linda Niehoff, "When You Carry Him Home"
Amalia Gladhart, "Contraband"
Meghan Lamb, "In Full View"
Mika Taylor, "Twenty Babies"
Thomas Kearnes, "The Hot Chick Dies at the End"
September 2014
Rene Cajelo, "Whaleworld"
Zach VandeZande, "Spite House"
Elise Matthews, "When the Seas Emptied"
Rebekah Bergman, "Teeth, or The Women In My Family"
August 2014
Daniel Enjay Wong, "Hide and Seek"
Hun Ohm, "Photographic Memory #11"
Gary Moshimer, "Bigfoot"
Kathie Jacobson, "Migration"
July 2014
Alison McCabe, "Dissolution"
Ken Rumble, "The Accountant Receives a Package"
Sara Mantooth, "Seasons"
Ella Bartlett, "Take The Piano"
Meg Tuite, "Lined Up Like Scars"
June 2014
Michael Kidd, "Point Past Which"
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, "Reruns: A Triptych"
Beth Hahn, "The Twenty-Third of June"
Andrew Davie, "Sissy Fish"
May 2014
Helen McClory, "Present"
Babak Lakghomi, "The Pilot"
Debbie Urbanski, "A Bridge To You"
Kim Winternheimer, "Stevens, then Margie"
April 2014
Travis J. Pike, "Bigger Things"
Sheldon Lee Compton, "Cards, Jacks and Wooden Guns"
Lane Ashfeldt, "Airside"
Kate Wyer, "Atlantic City"
Refe Tuma, "are u still there?"
March 2014
Jacob Guajardo, "The Day Would be Black, The Sun Blotted Out"
Rebecca King, "The Haunt-Away"
Michael Credico, "Amelia"
Caroline Kepnes, "Nobody’s in Love Anymore"
February 2014
Paula McGrath, "Tulips"
Matt Rowan, "Brilliant People Gone Haywire"
Sarah Prevatt, "The Arrowhead"
Claire Miye Stanford, "dreamPod™"
January 2014
Timmy Reed, "Birds And Other Things We Placed In Our Hearts"
Lara Markstein, "Abduction at the Deluxe Kwik-Trip Pump"
Keith Rebec, "In The Dead Air Of August"
Beau Golwitzer, "The Execution"
Maria Mutch, "Rubies"
December 2013
Rumaan Alam, "Maybe The Girl"
Rebecca Fishow, "Yes and No"
Catherine Carberry, "Serenity Prayers for Long-Distance Swimmers"
November 2013
Elisabeth Hamilton, "Boys and Girls and Women and Men"
Joseph Scapellato, "Fourteen Cowboys by the Fire"
Leeyee Lim, "Secrets"
Caroline Picard, "The Many Deaths of Summer"
October 2013
Eugenio Volpe, "Force of Nature"
Richard Carr, "The Big Thing"
Rebekah Curry, "But Now, Winter"
Leslee Rene Wright, "I've Got The Camera, You Bring Your Sisters"
Curtis Smith, "The Visit"
September 2013
Joanna Walsh, "And after..."
Joel Hans, "Day 4,372"
Apryl Lee, "Tonight, I Built a Kite"
Krista Mann, "Missing"
August 2013
Philip K. Zimmerman, "Human Translation"
Rebecca Meacham, "Beached"
Lillian Fishman, "Glass"
Cezarija Abartis, "The Shore"
July 2013
Dariel Suarez, "Sweet Saltwater"
Caroline Kepnes, "Frontstabbers"
Laura Miller, "The Lovely Beanstalk Goes Away"
MH Rowe, "Baby"
Matthew Vollmer, "Town Trip"
June 2013
Stephanie Austin, "The Accident in Five Small Parts"
Thomas Michael Duncan, "Borderline"
Rebekah Matthews, "Mild As May"
May 2013
Nicholas Rombes, "Black Star"
Juliet Jacques, "'Nazimova'"
Caroline Beaton, "Wet Meat"
Tyler Koshakow, "The Moment in 19"
April 2013
Charles Walker, "Open and Shut"
Aaron Larson, "The President In His Labyrinth"
Amalia Gladhart, "Falls Only A Collector Could Love"
Gabe Durham, "Fun Camp"
March 2013
Eric Thompson, "The Wrong Bird"
Gabrielle Hovendon, "Anatomy of Flight"
Delaney Nolan, "World That Owes"
February 2013
Rebekah Curry, "Instructions on Leaving the Communist Party"
Justin Lawrence Daugherty, "The Molting"
Kate Folk, "Open House"
Elliot Sanders, "A.P.O."
January 2013
Cailin Barrett-Bressack, "What A Dead Elephant Weighs"
Eliza Smith, "Crocodile"
Ryan P. Kennedy, "In The Distance"
Matthew Burnside, "For Mom"
December 2012
Corey Campbell, 'The Meteor', "The Meteor"
Nathan Tavares, "Me and Eurydice"
Kate Petersen, "Why No One Writes Lyric Realism Anymore"
Edmund Sandoval, "Tom-tom"
November 2012
Steve Karas, "Not Like The Movies"
Eric Lloyd Blix, "Indian Summer"
Liz Betz, "Flashover"
JP Kemmick, 'The Fights', "The Fights"
October 2012
Lisa Nikolidakis, "Time Travel, Avoidance, Options"
Christopher DeWan, "An American Dream"
Sarah Overland, "The Weight of Meat"
James Claffey, "the birdcage"
Kevin O'Cuinn, "While Oliver paints"
September 2012
Amy Butcher, "Rodent Sounds"
Adam Fishbein, "Moving In"
Nora Maynard, "1:42 pm"
Sam Martone, "Coburg Castle"
August 2012
Claire Hennessy, "It wasn’t the suit"
Sarah Marshall, "Nevada County"
Devan Goldstein, "The Specialists"
Andreas Trolf, "Things We Have Tried Unsuccessfully to Purchase on eBay"
Zack Wentz, "My Fingernails"
July 2012
Kristin FitzPatrick, "Center of Population"
Andrew Sullivan, "Cloud"
Matthew Jakubowski, "A Disturbance in the Herd Affects the Flock"
Karissa Chen, "The Emperor's Malady"
June 2012
Jeff Ewing, "Jacklight"
Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, "Debris"
Steven Casimer Kowalski, "The Old Fire Eater, Downsized"
Susan Rukeyser, "The Worst Girl's Best Day"
May 2012
Frank Haberle, "South of Hartford"
Jeanne Holtzman, "You Don't Defriend Them"
Christopher Lee, "Arithmetic"
Andrea Mason, "Black Dog"
Matt Rowan, "The Sidewalk Ends"
April 2012
Michael Beeman, "How Our Family Survived The Financial Crisis"
Kelcey Parker, "Janie (novella excerpt)"
David Cotrone, "My Brother the Painter"
Emily Koon, "Moss"
March 2012
Nathan Holic, "Peeling"
Molly Laich, "Forget About The Animals"
Ryan Shea, "Inventory"
Alex M. Pruteanu, "The Rubber Penguin"
February 2012
Peter Kispert, "Animal Control"
Melanie Page, "Battle In The Suburbs"
Helen McClory, "Excerpt from Kilea"
Robin Becker, "The Ultimate"
Stephen Langlois, "The Look-alike"
January 2012
Myfanwy Collins, "An excerpt from Echolocation"
Lindsey Gates Markel, "Night"
Lori White, "The Contraindications for Respite"
Rijn Collins, "Splinter"
December 2011
Amber Sparks, "They Have Only to Say They’ve Missed Us So"
Grant Bailie, "The Magician's Feet"
James Warner, "Kublai Khan's Five Stages of Grief"
Daniel Davis, "Big Ugly Punch"
November 2011
Rebekah Matthews, "Growling"
Kara Vernor, "Usually on Sunday"
Kim Chinquee, "Excerpts from Historic District"
Matthew Olzmann, "Lightning"
Court Merrigan, "Some Place"
October 2011
A.K. Benninghofen, "Before We Were Almost Lovers"
Ian Sanquist, "Barefoot and Penniless"
Laura Ellen Scott, "An Excerpt from Death Wishing"
Laura Ender, "Forty-five Seconds"
September 2011
Christina Kapp, "Bombs"
Damon Barta, "Veterans"
Casper Kelly, "The Sensitive Person's Joke Book"
Sandi Sonnenfeld, "Junket"
August 2011
Sharon McGill, "Half-Light"
Paul O'Reilly, "Crosses"
Rayne Debski, "Support System"
James Dunham, "In Winter"
July 2011
Cat Ennis Sears, "Stamped"
Chad Halliday, "Rhonda Belle and the Butterfly"
Claire Huxham, "Bad Star"
Woody Skinner, "A Thousand Distant Radios"
June 2011
John Haggerty, "A Hole In The Head And The Beekeeper Girl"
Laura Adamczyk, "They Will Leave From"
Michael Sheehan, "To Whom It May Concern"
Sarah Salway, "Per·cus·sion"
Ethan Chatagnier, "419"
May 2011
Brian Mihok, "Pill"
Faith Gardner, "Mada's Debut"
Ross McMeekin, "T-Minus"
Spencer Wise, "Freida"
April 2011
Eric Beeny, "Tattoo"
Chad Simpson, "Adaptations"
Justin D. Anderson, "Colloid"
Shelagh Power-Chopra, "Childbride"
March 2011
Stace Budzko, "Are You Ready?"
Janet Freeman, "Good Boyfriend"
Devan Goldstein, "How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog"
Andrea Kneeland, "Crush"
Buzz Mauro, "Game Theory"
February 2011
Hailey Heikkinen, "It's A Family Thing"
Patrick Allen Carberry, "Still And Gilded"
Becky Margolis, "Our Own Flesh And Blood"
Angela Woodward, "A Story"
January 2011
Gary Moshimer, "The New Year"
Tawnysha Greene, "Eskimo Days"
Vanessa Carlisle, "Excerpt from A Crack in Everything"
Casey Hannan, "Before And After Your Cat Died"
December 2010
Cortney McLellan, "Moss"
Nick Ripatrazone, "Righteous"
Gary Percesepe, "Why I Sing Such Good Songs, Coyote"
Colin Winnette, "Monday—Sunday"
Doug Bond, "Where the ocean ends"
November 2010
Marcelina Vizcarra, "Fugue For Miners Dead"
Timmy Waldron, "Beachfront"
Savannah Schroll Guz, "The Fascinator"
Daniel W. Davis, "They Do This Kind of Thing"
October 2010
Len Kuntz, "One Out Of Two"
Bonnie Zobell, "Serial"
Joy Lanzendorfer, "Swat"
Timothy Raymond, "The Best Man"
September 2010
Jeff Vande Zande, "Marriage With Time Lapse"
Joe Kapitan, "Three Prayers For Rain"
T.L. Crum, "How To Become An Optimist"
Jennifer A. Howard, "Maybe Gravity Is"
Nick Ostdick, "On The Coast"
August 2010
Gary Percesepe, "Scripts"
Jen Gann, "Funny Bones"
Frank Hinton, "All of the people in these pictures are dead now"
Jennifer Marie Donahue, "Resting In Place"
July 2010
Peter Grandbois, "Toilet Trouble"
Greg Gerke, "Would You Please Let Go, Please?"
Dawn West, "The Architecture Of Two Closets In America"
Thomas Cooper, "Big In Japan"
June 2010
Katrina Gray, "Sectioned"
John Minichillo, "The Last Pool Party"
Roland Goity, "From the Ruins"
Susan Miller Silva, "Jolt"
Gary Moshimer, "The Other Guy"
May 2010
Will Buckingham, "How the Revolution Began"
Christy Crutchfield, "The Future of Family Radio"
Matthew Salesses, "two from Our Island of Epidemics"
Naira Kuzmich, "How To Date A White Guy"
April 2010
Heather Fowler, "Three Views You Might Have Taken At Pond's Edge... Or, Quack"
Kevin Spaide, "The Beard"
Meg Pokrass, "In This Light"
Ben Loory, "The End Of It All"
March 2010
Ben Tanzer, "More Than Anything"
Len Kuntz, "Mockingbird"
Tara Laskowski, "The Etiquette of Adultery"
Charles Dodd White, "Carrion"
Robert Swartwood, "An Insurrection"
February 2010
Ravi Mangla, "Obelisk"
Jacqueline Vogtman, "The Gift of Mourning Imagined Losses"
Marianne Villanueva, "Witness"
Robert Kloss, "The Man Who Lived Amongst The Cannibals"
January 2010
Ethel Rohan, "Endangered"
xTx, "While She Is Dying"
Jeff Vande Zande, "The Major Players"
Jen Michalski, "P.E."
December 2009
John Givens, "The Plantain"
AD Jameson, "Waste Extraction"
Doug Paul Case, "Jumping Rooftops"
Gary Moshimer, "Birdman"
Adam Moorad, "Five Years"
November 2009
Amber Sparks, "The Chemistry of Objects"
Yvette Ward-Horner, "Dogs and Refugees"
S. Craig Renfroe, Jr., "Herman and the Elephant"
JA Tyler, "of wood"
October 2009
David Erlewine, "who stormed the beaches"
Shellie Zacharia, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
Anne Valente, "May This Strap Restrain You"
Michelle Reale, "Save Me"
September 2009
Tim Jones-Yelvington, "Slime Me"
Erin Fitzgerald, "Fraud"
Jensen Beach, "Family"
Timothy Raymond, "House of Skeletons"
Angi Becker Stevens, "What It Means To Disappear"
August 2009
Ethel Rohan, "Rocket Into A Pocket"
Jamie Iredell, "The First Colony Inn"
Jeff Vande Zande, "Inside Job"
Shya Scanlon, "Forecast: Chapter 7"
July 2009
Steven J. McDermott, "When a Furnace Is All That Remains"
BJ Hollars, "The Friends"
Peter Grandbois, "Carpentry"
Paul Toth, "And Took Him Down Where He Got the Bends"
Carol Novack, "Four Variations"
June 2009
Michelle Bailat-Jones, "Excerpt from Fog Island Mountains"
Matt Bell, "How I Started Going To Meetings"
Stefanie Freele, "600 Turkey Basters, 200 Tongs"
Beth Alvarado, "The Motherhood Poems"
May 2009
Julie Babcock, "Over Easy"
Roxane Gay, "Things I Know About Fairy Tales"
Peter Markus, "The Moon Is A Star"
April 2009
Matt Briggs, "The Bay"
Kathy Fish, "Cure"
David Erlewine, "Marionettes"
Rachel Yoder, "Arizona's Lonely"
Sara Levine, "Baby Love"
March 2009
Savannah Schroll Guz, "American Soma"
Jimmy Chen, "Life Would Be This Way"
Frank Haberle, "Beauty"
Elizabeth Hall, "Rosalind"
February 2009
James Stegall, "Third Order Effects"