Portuguese Paradise | Carlo Matos

"...my feet aching still from all those polyester dirges on streets covered in flower petals like byzantine tiles..."

The Hole | Cheryl Jacobs

"She spends a lot of time alone, especially when he’s home..."

Antinomian | Joseph Harms

"He washed his windows often, liked them fogged: / how analgeses anaphyl and lust- / rums will nychthem; sodality’s enjoin- / ment reified each day, too aporets..."

Six Words | Ty Phelps

Winner of the Winter 2016 Six Word Story Contest with guest judge Margaret Malone.

Bad Girl | Kate Jayroe

"Helen lives in my frontal lobe. Sometimes, though, she enjoys lobe-hopping. Full-on parietal. Occipital, every blue moon..."

Bad Water | Katrina Carrasco

"It’s weird, right, that I chose a town on the water? That’s a form of therapy, though. I think it’s called exposure therapy..."