Fiction
July Contributors
Nick Black, James Callan, Cristiano Cardone, Benjamin Drevlow, Chad Gayle, Colin Gee, Noah Giles, Casey Jo Graham Welmer, GRSTALT Comms, Doug Henderson, Ian Johnson, Patrick Johnston, Mike Lee, Priyanuj Mazumdar, Thomas M. McDade, Shaun Anthony McMichael, Odin Meadows, Tom Misuraca, Marshall Moore, Joe Nasta, Scott Ortolano, J.B. Polk, Alexei Raymond, Simon Read, Holly Redell-Witte, Karen Schauber, Marcus Silcock, Anthony Neil Smith, Michael Grant Smith, Chrissy Stegman, James Sullivan, and Michael Thériault
corpse flower
by Vivian Lawry
“As the spirits of the corpse flowers disappear there, only I weep.”
umbra
by Tiffany Jimenez
“I’d found a loophole. Sasha, who had been watching alongside the other doctors, watched my spirit become consumed in flames as I attempted to hold onto my husband’s soul.“
jimmy the fish
by Tony Cartlidge
“That git with the red pens and the dictionaries and the dandruff falling into his free-range salad? Who cares what he says?”
1962: it’s always the girl’s fault
by DC Diamondopolous
“In the classified section of the Daily Breeze, Donna had recognized a coded message with a phone number and called.”
the prophet of ezekiel, mississippi and the curse of bad love
by Mike Itaya
“He whispered to me that he and Rhonda had tried to steal the can of Cajun Boiled Peanuts from Piggly Wiggly, but the can began to whisper things―deep, dark things…”