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Fiction

In the Kingdom of Toads & Bones
by Rick White

November 14, 2022 Contributed By: Rick White

Talking to Ghosts at Parties book cover

– CONTENT WARNING: Animal Abuse –

In the mornings — before school — there was always tea. China cups, whistling kettle, hot metal stove. Warm smell of butane, blackened matches, crunch of buttered things. Now there is only steam. It pools on every surface and spit-trickles down black windowpanes, shiny tears.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: November 14, 2022

Winter by Jasna Dimitrijević
translated from the Serbian by John K. Cox

November 7, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Jasna Dimitrijević, John K. Cox

"Iota" by Elizabeth Johnson

Since I moved away to a bigger city, I seldom come back home. Only for holidays and the anniversaries of a few people’s deaths.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: November 7, 2022

Islands by Elena Varvello,
translated from the Italian by Jennifer Panek

October 24, 2022 Contributed By: Alan Bern, Elena Varvello, Jennifer Panek

"Bubblusion" by Alan Bern

On dark days, days when she thought there was really nothing important to be done, she had the impression that for women like herself, the world might just keep shrinking down until it was small enough to fit into a shopping list. And then everything would seem to contract, to the point where she couldn’t breathe any more, as if the walls and the ceiling were closing in on her…

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: October 24, 2022

Command Hook
by Thomas Mixon

October 13, 2022 Contributed By: Thomas Mixon

Kat Smith on Pexels

There’s nothing less than a relationship at stake, when one opens a package of LED white star lights on green wire from Target, and another opens an identical package, and both get frustrated trying to untangle the strings.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: October 13, 2022

Every Kind of Woman
by Kristine Morgan

September 29, 2022 Contributed By: Kristine Morgan, Marie-Julie

Taste by Marie-Julie

The first casting call was a genesis. I’m sure of it now. I walked into a warehouse on the southeast side of town.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: September 29, 2022

Fountain of the Dying
by Austin Sanchez-Moran

September 12, 2022 Contributed By: Austin Sanchez-Moran

"Birds and Dots" by Kirk Sever

On a whitewashed island in Greece, where the brass church bells chime out into the sea
every evening, there is a slender old woman in a red head scarf who yells out, “Soup! A scoop of
soup!” while banging her tin drum with a ladle and wandering the cobblestoned alleyways.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: September 12, 2022

Extract from X by Valentina Mira
translated from the Italian by Sean McDonagh

September 1, 2022 Contributed By: Dianne Corbeau, Sean McDonagh, Valentina Mira

"Introspection" by Dianne Corbeau

When it’s my turn to sleep, I dream of a wolf. It follows me around the rooms of the house. I have no idea what it wants with me, nor who is hiding beneath that fur. I wake up with my heart beating in its ribcage; it’s weird, it seems almost like it intends to take flight as if it were a hummingbird. And unfortunately, it’s a heart instead.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: September 1, 2022

Shit Cassandra Saw: A Unique and Thrilling Debut
by Angelina Mazza

August 29, 2022 Contributed By: Angelina Mazza

Shit Cassandra Saw cover

“Women can never be emancipated from the stupidity of men.” For MAYDAY, Angelina Mazza reviews Gwen E. Kirby’s remarkable, dark, biting feminist project, Shit Cassandra Saw.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Fiction, Reviews Posted On: August 29, 2022

Out of Body
by Liza Olson

August 22, 2022 Contributed By: Howie Good, Liza Olson

"Unplugged" by Howie Good

I am lying flat on the ground in a quiet living room in a quiet home in the kind of quiet suburb everyone’s at least driven through, if not lived in. I am breathing deeply, from my diaphragm, like the VHS instructed.

Filed Under: Featured Fiction, Fiction Posted On: August 22, 2022

Mr. Z by Grzegorz Wróblewski
Translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński

July 21, 2022 Contributed By: Laurie Marshall, Peter Burzyński

Indoor Pets 3 by Laurie Marshall

Mr. Z opened the door to a preacher of the One Truth: the man in a hat looked around the room.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: July 21, 2022

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