Bus Stop | Samantha Steiner

"...if you saw me you’d just think, hey, there’s this kid with curly hair and big headphones and maybe he’s on his way to school, and maybe he’s a skateboarder..."

Selected Flash | Peg Alford Pursell

"Unable to sleep, I read the ancient texts while the skies lighten to day, yellow with smoke from the burning redwoods..." Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest (Dzanc, 2019) and Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow (WTAW, 2017).

Best Forgotten Monsters | Alex Dannemiller

"I’d taken hole in the small ceiling corner away from the door. Kept myself wedged above the lumpy, yellow car. I became intimate with the decayed roof above me and the grain of the wood beams..."

Swing | Rosalind Goldsmith

"You look up at the coroner behind her high desk and say: 'Listen to me. I’m breathing. I’m here.' But she looks doubtful..." Rosalind Goldsmith's stories have been published in the USA, the UK, and Canada.

We All Fall Down | Alissa Hattman

"...in another’s hands are her hand and someone else’s hand. In someone else’s hands is another hand and, also, my hand. Like this, we go around and around..."

5 Signs Your House May Suffer From Possession | Meredith Smith

"They found the pamphlet in the seat next to you, crumpled and bruised, covered in your blood: 5 Signs Your Spouse May Suffer From Depression..."