Fiction

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"

Emily Coon, "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"

Joe Kapitan, "Three Linked Micro-Fictions Prompted by the Discovery of Kepler 186f"

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"

Ryan Werner, "A Comprehensive List of the Least Worst Way to Do Everything"

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"

Katy Gunn, "Your house requires you to adopt the habit of preserving"

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

Matt Baker, "A bit about Le Pue, the imaginary friend Patrick had imagined as a boy and then forgotten, and what Le Pue was up to now"

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"

J.A. Tyler, "the wolves, the zebras, the ostrich, the water buffalo"

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"