Three Things That Happen the Night My Dad Dies, by Isabel Cañas
SUMMER 2024, FLASH AH AH, 800 WORDS The night my dad dies, he’s not my dad—he’s fifteen years old, fluffy-haired […]
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The Handsome Men, by Richard Leis
I dance with the handsome men I do not knowthe music alive between their thighs, their liquid skin and hard
End-of-Life, by Lauren Ring
SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3100 WORDS The bicycle shed at the edge of Heaven was painted a different color every
Ask a Necromancer, by Amanda Downum
Mortui Vivos Docent This April I attended my first RavenCon, my new local convention (and one of my favorite avian
Rachel Is at a Protest, by Esther Alter
SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 4500 WORDS The Second Intifada, September 2003. There is a student protest in response to Israel’s
The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death, by Ali Trotta
This lesson I learned and relearned, recitingit like a spell, word after wordto call back my power,to soften the ache,to
The Rerebirth of Slick, by Stephen Kearse
SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3500 WORDS They buried us in Detroit. The plywood was thick as Aretha’s bosom, but I
Self-Chosen Burial Rites of a Bunch of Twenty-Somethings, Eleora Ryan
“So, what do you want to happen to your body when you die?” I had shown up to my girlfriend’s
Raising an Ancestor, by Kay Mabasa
SUMMER 2024, SHORT STORY, 3500 WORDS You’ve been angry for three full moons, but you don’t know this, or rather
Inverse Requiem, by Abhinav
for Sakshi Your face an oblong fact. Your hair a swirl of light in a jagged syntax. The curve of