Fiction



Ten Minutes
A siren warns of an incoming missile but the Lutsky family spot a stranger just as they are about to enter their safe room. They invite him in. By Ellis Shuman.

Ten Minutes
A siren warns of an incoming missile but the Lutsky family spot a stranger just as they are about to enter their safe room. They invite him in. By Ellis Shuman.

Father D
By James Cortese Childhood—here’s what I hated about it. I hated the way you had to be like everyone else. Hated the way you had

Novel Excerpt: (In) visible
By Ivan Baidak I feel that otherness is inside us—in what we think about, in what we consider important, in how we treat people around

Rattle
By Alex Dako, He checked his cellphone; he had two missed calls and a text message that read: “hey man… I need your muscles at

Pancake Day
By Sarah Edmonds They are perfect. Just how he remembers them—better, even. Circular and golden, with purpled unbroken globes all over, each evenly spaced from

Three Minutes
By Lillian Neal “Three minutes,” I say, struggling to keep the nerves from my voice as I start the timer. I use the mirror to gauge

Maybe Talk to Carl
By Derek Alan Jones Okay, look. I did push the button. Carl told me not to push it, but, I mean, have you ever been

You Make Yourself Amazing
By Sean Nishi It can get exhausting. The school kids. The team building groups. The seminarians. Especially the seminarians. Today we have a group of

Shigeru’s Shadow
By RICHSKI I conducted my interview with John Ashfield as part of a university-led project to record recollections of the last remaining World War Two

Real Friends
By Steven Daniel When I was a boy, my friend Ellie could almost fly. I remember the first time she showed me. We snuck up