Custom / Conditional
Zach VandeZande
The Rodeo Queen disappeared. This happened during the parade. She felt so wonderful, everyone in town watching, she deer-legged and waving from the back of a Fo...
micro fiction
Sapphires
Melissa Goodrich
You realize suddenly that you are made of sapphires.It is the middle of the night and the wind shuffles across the complex lawn and the fridge hums and the ...
Last Inspection of Mount Vernon by George Washington, Gentleman Farmer
Karen Craigo
At every turn on the deer path, I drop a serrated pearl.They’re the breadcrumbs of the breadless and birds eschew them. Barring more snow, this ivory should...
I Have to Ask
Jan Stinchcomb
I want to ask the man standing in line in front of me where he’s from, but people don’t do that anymore. This was always a big city with no small talk. The fact...
Rarely Have We Seen a Person Fail
Sean Ennis
We are here because we have made mistakes. Depending on who you ask there is either something medically wrong with our brains or we’re ungrateful scumbags, liar...
Collage
Ashley Hutson
Eileen possessed sub-par legs. She was born with weird, fragile bones that kept her inside when other children were outside. She strove for positivity. She love...
The Girl Who Had A TIE Fighter For A Nose
Jonathan Cardew
Kissing was a problem. The dimensions of the TIE fighter made it almost impossible to do it erotically, if that’s what she had a mind for.Finding a boy who ...