4 min Up in Light by Daniel Takeshi Krause We had to take a step, hold a pose, take a step, hold a pose, on and on like that to get anywhere.
16 min Kiss Me by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer “And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
12 min Every Living Thing in the Desert is Afraid by Julia Dixon Evans “Are you ready?” Samir asks, not looking up from his phone.
20 min George Bull by Erika T. Wurth (from Buckskin Cocaine) For some reason it’s the sound of the big, grey van door sliding shut on her face that dusty
6 min berlin : skin waving goodbye Lance Olsen (excerpt from My Red Heaven) Every evening the dead gather on rooftops across the city.
6 min METALHEAD by W. Todd Kaneko Metalhead swaggers through the mall, a giant crumpled and stuffed into a sixteen-year-old boy’s scrawny frame.
4 min The Last Polling Station Reporting By Jenny Ferguson I’m watching him at the bus stop. Smells like piss, but this is the only place out of the rain, under here.