Book Your Injectables | Jennifer Robinson

"Side effects may include: conflating appearance with self-worth, emotional regression, decreased compassion, and debilitating perfectionism..." A micro essay by Jennifer Robinson.

Willing | Michael Levan

"She has given / over to the probability of loss, which is enough / to make one ask, How shall the heart be / reconciled from this feast? How shall it / remain intact to keep her going wherever she needs to go?"

Perceptions Shift | Wendy BooydeGraaff and Susan Wider

"I tell my friend something she wrote shifted my thinking. She tells me back she wants to know more about this. What is the more?" A collaborative flash piece by Wendy BooydeGraaff and Susan Wider.

Albany en Recto Verso | Ted Jean

"1. you are headed south to be with your dying sister; while 2. your idiot heart rises toward bliss to be sailing like an improbably bulky bird across this heartbreak beautiful pedestrian winter Western Oregon farmland..."

Coot Feet | Amanda Jaffe

"One minute I’m watching a small, black duck make its elegant approach toward the shoreline, barely a ripple on the water in its wake. The next minute, that 'duck' hops ashore on a pair of phlegm-colored legs that give way to three angst-inducing toes..."

Tectonics | Edward Ahern

Edward Ahern has had four hundred stories and poems and six books published so far. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of nine review editors.