A SHORT STORY BY NARINDA HENG: “She was able to forgive herself a little for their current situation: the two of them, vaguely stoned, undressed on his bed, kissing.”
FICTION BY MATT GAJEWSKI: The final installment of the serialized story
FICTION BY GREG TURNER: “He can’t stand her sadness, the way her eyes look when she says it, the way it deflates her figure. Her shoulder slump, her elegant neck forward and plucked. Hates himself, then turns his hate on her.”
FICTION BY LELAND CHEUK: “In my class, Oscar is the ringleader. I imagine him growing to be a morally challenged authority figure: a crime organization don, a politician on the take, or an investment bank executive – hypercompetitive and lawless like the people I used to work for”
BY MATT GAJEWSKI: Part seven–the final installment of the Mt. Olympus, Miami series
FICTION BY KJ HANNAH GREENBERG: “Charlene exhaled noisily as she willed her flexors and extensors to move her hand toward her face. She imagined her biceps also aiding that effort.”
MT. OLYMPUS, MIAMI BY MATT GAJEWSKI: Part six in the summer serial
FICTION BY MICHAEL ZAPATA: “Being sixteen is a disease. Money is a disease. So are cities. Then there are diseases which are like chain reactions.”
FICTION BY MEGAN STIELSTRA: “Here’s the thing: I make nine dollars an hour copying keys at Ace Hardware.”
FICTION BY HUNTER LIGUORE: “In Macedonia, there lived a shield maker named Solomos.”
FICTION BY VASUDHA PANDE: “The baby and I didn’t have much time left together. Once out, it would belong to the Millers. Forever.”
FICTION BY MATT GAJEWSKI: Part two in the Mt. Olympus Miami summer serial
FICTION BY BOBBY PAYNE: “an opportunistic misfit, begging to be caught.”
FLASH FICTION BY KJ HANNAH GREENBERG: “Ever since the partial core meltdown of Unit Two, those creatures had seemed edgy.”
SHORT FICTION BY LELAND CHEUK: “Finn knows what the people in the office call him. Tool. Douche-bag. Sycophant. He’s heard it all before.”
A STORY BY MEGAN STIELSTRA: “This past semester was especially rough and on the last day, as I was packing my things for winter break, I thought: I could walk away. What if I walked away?”
FICTION BY MANDY MIKULENCAK: “Though impeccably tailored, I find it a tad ostentatious for a morning meeting at Starbucks. Still, I’m not about to comment on the Devil’s attire.”
A STORY BY PAUL M. DAVIS: “The zombie apocalypse lasted decades longer than it does in the movies.”
Paul M Davis