At the Florist Shop | Nicki Youngsma

"I want to be drenched in flower musk, breathing it to bind what’s broken; today is April Fool’s, but all jokes have become decrepit; the bouquets with roses are too neat, too coiled, too circular..."

Instincts | Lillian Durr

"...she looks naïve. It’s sweet. But that sweetness is as brief as a camera flash capturing her. We lean to the side and see all at once how brief this moment is..."

November 6th, 2024 | Ethan Stanton

"I woke up it was Wednesday and I made the coffee and prepared the lunchboxes, brushed the ants off the counter and the lunchbox was pink and plastic and needed extra scrubbing..."

The Birth of Evil | Rob Swystun

"Other like me has sky brightness. He showed me. It was like many sky brightnesses, but small. They are in a piece of hard ground. They move like sky brightness on water..."

Re(Evolution) | Nathan Tompkins

"you're a fungus expanding your fibrous tendrils across dead skin and decaying organs; sing in the language of hunger, the words an ancestral memory buried in the genetic code..."

Put Your Lips Together and Blow | Tate A. Geborkoff

"A man stands in front of a mirror wearing last night’s makeup. He knows he should have taken it off, but he didn’t. He was having a good time, living his truest self, and he got home so late (so early)..."