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The City Above and Below
by Matthew E. Nesheim

Excerpted from The City Above and Below: Song of the Weaver - Book One (2018, Lamplight) 12.11.2387 – Planet Vellus, just outside Alba … read more about The City Above and Below
by Matthew E. Nesheim

A Painter’s Secret
by Matt Whelihan

I met Toad during a rough time. I mean, I wasn’t sick or addicted or anything. Nobody I knew had just died, and I wasn’t living on the streets. It was … read more about A Painter’s Secret
by Matt Whelihan

Recognition
by Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio

[Editors' Note: An embryonic version of this piece, titled "Me, the Other," was originally published in Spanish in a small circulation magazine. The … read more about Recognition
by Ignacio Ortiz Monasterio

february: still definitely not thinking about you
by Mel Gross

I exhale fogged frost, trying to mimic the way smoke slid from your chapped lips. goosebumps rise like braille across my … read more about february: still definitely not thinking about you
by Mel Gross

Army Mail
by Chad Foret

1 We rented dentist chairs & got possessed. Listening to paratroopers suffocate, I was like a guesthouse … read more about Army Mail
by Chad Foret

On Visiting Oscar Wilde’s Cell in Reading Prison
by Stephen Gibson

They sold at auction Wilde’s cellblock key, the one for C wing in Reading Gaol— Wilde’s name was his cell number: … read more about On Visiting Oscar Wilde’s Cell in Reading Prison
by Stephen Gibson