Anotherealm: Zombie Meth
by Adrienne Ray
“Zombie Meth” raises some difficult questions for me as a reader and as someone who loves literature. Maybe that’s why I like it. It’s provocative in that it compels me to question my assumptions about writing and literature. Adrienne Ray’s “Zombie Meth” is not what I’d call literary fiction. It’s speculative, [...]

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anderbo: Night
by Jessica Pishko
It’s interesting how much pain can be packed into a human being. We’re dynamic creatures, if only insofar as we can suffer. We can suffer terrible pains and humiliations without even showing it. Youth can hide that pain. A smile can hide that pain. Numbers—just the fact that there are so many [...]

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The Mississippi Review: Public Display of Affection
by Laura Levin
Laura Levin’s “Public Display of Affection” examines change. More specifically, Levin looks at the changes we don’t notice, the little subtleties that we miss in the motion of days upon days. Perhaps more than anything, this story reveals that intimacy isn’t a state of being; it’s an [...]

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Pif Magazine: Kept
by Kirsten Clodfelter
“Kept,” by Kirsten Clodfelter, is short but sweet. This story doesn’t try to be an expansive epic condensed into jot of flash fiction. Instead it’s a piece of flash fiction that reveals intimacy, love, and the fear those things bring. From the opening line, “The girl was wearing one of his [...]

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Inkwell: In Transit
by Kristen-Paige Madonia
“In Transit,” by Kristen-Paige Madonia, is a look at momentum, how people move and how they stop, the forces that and impulses that guide our decisions. The main character, Sapphire, is a twenty-seven year old writer who has fled to California from a New York life of privilege and obligation. Now [...]

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Agni: Drama Kids
by Kate Williams
“Drama Kids,” by Kate Williams, is brief but potent. It’s a short story look at teenagers in drama—a class or club, it doesn’t matter—and how they straddle maturity and childhood. This story is special because of the images Williams uses to draw her characters and the world they inhabit. Williams doesn’t [...]

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