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The Tail by Kailyn McCord (May 2023)

The Space Between Heartbeats by Jessica Yen (May 2023)

B.I.W. Boys by Catherine Kart (May 2023)

July 2015: A Compendium by Daniel Garcia (May 2023)

Blow Up by G. S. Arnold (May 2023)

Río Negro by Lynn Sikkink (April 2023)

Homeboy by Nancy Garcia (April 2023 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Leap Year by Chloe Alberta (April 2023 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

The Distant Daughter by Brenda Salinas Baker (April 2023 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

The Sum of All Amazements by Lyndsie Manusos (March 2023)

Prelude to the Abyss by Daniel David Froid (March 2023)

Can’t Elope by Miriam Camitta (March 2023)

Ate Raw and Often by J.A.L. Martinez (March 2023)

You    Body by Rosalind Goldsmith (February 2023 – September Selects Second Person Winner!)

The Woman in the Tree by Lisa Beebe (February 2023 – September Selects Sudden Stories Winner!)

Behind the Falls by Paulette Pierce (February 2023 – September Selects Anti-Love Winner!)

A Dictionary of How Things Break by Nora Studholme (February 2023 – September Selects Hermit Crab Winner!)

Now or Never by Leo Ríos (January 2023)

Jaja-Haha by Madari Pendas (January 2023)

Used Scars by Patrina Corsetti (January 2023)

Fishing by Yiwei Chai (January 2023)

Out, Brief Candle by Hannah Rose Roberts (December 2022 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

The Physiology of Arriving by Michele Wong (December 2022 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

My Sister Versus Tomatoes by Kate Barss (November 2022 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Sealskin by Haley Kennedy (November 2022)

Russian Thistle by Laura Farnsworth (November 2022 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

A Single Mark by Reena Shah (October 2022 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Creeper by Taylor Sykes (October 2022 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

The Crown Prince of Koi by Daniel Abiva Hunt (October 2022)

Rosebell by Silvia Spring (October 2022)

Take Warning: The Ballad of Sammy Slug by Glenn Lester (October 2022 – Novel Excerpt Contest Winner!)

Hakuri by Jessica Cavero (September 2022 – Novel Excerpt Contest Winner!)

The Slapjack by Alan Sincic (September 2022 – Novel Excerpt Contest Winner!)

Red State by Allie Torgan (September 2022)

The Same Country by Carole Burns (September 2022)

Unmuted by Daniel Condict Moore (August 2022)

Shelly had pencils covered in teethmarks by Lindy Biller (August 2022)

The Blue Raincoat by Judith Cooper (August 2022)

Knitting Verse by Elizabeth Brinsfield (August 2022)

The Writer by Lyndsey Smith (July 2022)

The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies by Maggie Cooper (July 2022)

Hey, Stop Blaming Your Dead Father’s Fists by Vincent Anioke (June 2022)

The Picnic by Nathan Alling Long (June 2022)

In The New Year by Nicole VanderLinden (June 2022)

Hyenas Behind the Tombstones by Sam Berman (May 2022)

Land of the Midday Sun by Jeff Ewing (May 2022)

Carve by Kaushika Suresh (May 2022)

Picture This by Alicia Marshall (May 2022)

The Virgins of San Nicolás by Nicole Simonsen (May 2022)

Snow Angels by Noah Codega (April 2022)

The Rains by Rona S. Fernandez (April 2022)

a work of art by aureleo sans (April 2022)

An Essential Service by Joy Guo (March 2022)

Night Stencils by Sherine Elbanhawy (March 2022 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Wish You Were Here by Carlee Jensen (March 2022 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

All This is Yours to Lose by Marcus Tan (March 2022 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Degenerate Matter by Jennifer Galvão (February 2022)

Don’t Move by C.M. Lindley (February 2022)

I Walked the Dogs by Ai Jiang (February 2022)

SAGA by Joshua Nagle (January 2022)

If I Plant You by Brian Franklin (January 2022)

The Getaway by Natalie Storey (January 2022)

Move Along, You by Snigdha Roy (January 2022)

The Tomb of Monsieur de Saint Colombe by A. Mauricio Ruiz (January 2022)

A Banana by Taylor Craven (December 2021)

Aprovecha by Mason Boyles (December 2021)

Humboldt Park Blues by Randy William Santiago (November 2021)

Agora é Sempre by Tanya Perks (November 2021 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Play That Again by John Glowney (November 2021 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

How to Develop (Film) by Candice May (October 2021 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Everywhere, All at Once by Emily Roth (October 2021)

Peer Melvin by Lily Meyer (October 2021)

Imagine This, Thaddeus by Brad Aaron Modlin (October 2021)

My Life Partner by Jack Cubria (October 2021)

Jackpot by Mike Nees (September 2021)

Lucky Elephant by Lynn Mundell (September 2021)

Masterplans by Nick Almeida (August 2021 – 2020 Chapbook Winner Preview!)

Trick by Vanessa Chan (August 2021)

Straight to My Heart by Dean Jamieson (August 2021 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Collection of the Artist by Corey Flintoff (August 2021 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

You’re Not the Only One by William Hawkins (July 2021 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Celestial Navigation by Heather Marshall (July 2021)

Psalms of a Charred Summer by Monica Brashears (July 2021)

Husband, Lover, He by Shastri Akella (June 2021)

A Taste of the Silence by Ajay Kumar Nair (June 2021)

What Made You This Way by Enyinna Nnabuihe (June 2021)

Fight, Bag, Option, Run by Jiaming Tang (June 2021)

The Men by Hayley Boyd (May 2021)

Maria Makiling Off the Mountain by Anna Cabe (May 2021)

The Rounds at Blanding by Tom Sokolowski (May 2021)

Isabel by Rachel Duboff (May 2021)

Pearl by Kwan Ann Tan (May 2021)

Paper Fan by Dinah Cox (April 2021)

Inheritance by Mary Mandeville (April 2021)

Rip Your Throat Out by Will Ejzak (April 2021)

Smith by Rob Franklin (April 2021)

Early Roman Kings by Rocco DeBonis (March 2021)

Burning by Adeline Lovell (March 2021 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Matchbox by Nancy Ludmerer (March 2021 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Como La Flor by Dayna Cobarrubias (March 2021 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Petrified by Clare Howdle (February 2021)

Gone Already by Kendra Y. Mims-Applewhite (February 2021)

47 by Shereen Akhtar (February 2021)

On the Verge by Andrea Malin (February 2021)

Sing Me a Happy Song by Tara Isabel Zambrano (January 2021)

Hungry Souls by Andrea Gregory (January 2021)

The Analyst by Jennifer Marquardt (January 2021)

Master Guns by Kyle Seibel (January 2021)

An Ordinary Ache by Bikram Sharma (December 2020)

Love is Such a Morphing Thing by Ugochukwu Damian Okpara (December 2020)

That Kind of Girl by Stephanie Wheeler (November 2020)

Shootout in Prospect Park by Chuck Nwoke (November 2020)

Crocodile by Ashleigh Pedersen (November 2020 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Consider the Shape of Your Fist by Leah Dawdy (November 2020 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Heirlooms by Amanda Jean Akers (October 2020 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Fire Season by Vincent Chavez (October 2020)

Trucker’s Notebook by Nicole Roché (October 2020)

Not Dead. Yet, (Golem Father) by Nathan Szajnberg (October 2020)

Escaping by Tom Lakin (September 2020)

Catch and Release by Grace Holtzclaw (September 2020)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by Rosemary Harp (September 2020)

Running From Blackness by Allen M. Price (September 2020)

Inheritance by Adam Byko (August 2020)

Different by Sindya Bhanoo (August 2020)

The Photograph on the Wall by Ope Adedeji (August 2020)

The Driver by Samantha Xiao Cody (August 2020 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Joe Blake by Raeden Richardson (July 2020 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

The Easiest Thing in the World by Taylor Grieshober (July 2020 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Rapture by Chloe Chun Seim (July 2020 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Compound Fractures by Alice Hatcher (July 2020)

Sorry About Your Bird by Kathryn M. Barber (June 2020)

The Road Takes the Shape of the Earth Beneath It by Jeremy Packert Burke (June 2020)

You Can’t Take it With You by Jami Kimbrell (June 2020)

This is for My Auntie Penzi Who— by Idza Luhumyo (June 2020)

The Monster in Back Bruly by Kailyn McCord (June 2020)

Taking Mr. Itopa by Caleb Ozovehe Ajinomoh (May 2020)

Rereading Stephen King on the Eve of My MFA by Steph Grossman (May 2020)

Salt-Sea by Zeeva Bukai (April 2020 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Shenzhen by Willa Zhang (April 2020 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

It Could Happen To You by Trent England (April 2020 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Genealogy by Nancy London (April 2020)

And Then? by Sara Brody (March 2020)

Skin Hunger by Melissa Goode (March 2020)

Obscure Sorrows by Ndinda Kioko (March 2020)

Jessica’s Body by Kit Mitchell (February 2020)

Russian Roulette by Lauren Green (February 2020)

Adult Education by Laura Maylene Walter (February 2020)

Ghost Story by Becca Anderson (January 2020 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Escape Velocity by Karisa Tell (January 2020 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Mutts by Shane Page (January 2020 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Terraforming Mars by Emmett Knowlton (January 2020)

The Basement Beneath the Basement by Dale Gregory Anderson (December 2019)

What More Do You Want? by Michael Ruby (December 2019)

Homecoming by Kathryn Phelan (November 2019 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

The Remains by Felicity Fenton (November 2019 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Simple Physics by Kevin Leahy (October 2019 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Observation Tube—McMurdo Station, Antarctica by Justin Herrmann (October 2019)

It’s All Perfectly Natural by Emily Chiles (September 2019)

The Danbury Firebirds by Andrew Erkkila (September 2019)

Premonition by Emily Dyer Barker (September 2019)

1961 by Laura Demers (September 2019)

Lost in Transformation by Nicole Burdge (September 2019)

Big Red Nation by Brett Biebel (August 2019)

The Engagement by Stacey Wang (August 2019)

Century Women by Maura Lammers (July 2019)

To Kill the Second by Di Bei (July 2019)

Another Life by Olivia Parkes (July 2019)

Damico by Joe Bond (July 2019 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Caretaker Needed by Meghan Daniels (July 2019 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Narada’s Ears by Sanjena Sathien (June 2019 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

At This Late Hour by Rebecca Turkewitz (June 2019)

IED by Neville F. Dastoor (June 2019)

Tropical Fascism by Gabriella Monico (June 2019)

Euphoria by Heather De Bell (May 2019)

Lessy by Jeremy T. Wilson (May 2019)

Seraglios of Night by Greg Sendi (May 2019)

The Plight of the Red-Feathered Austrian Goose by E. Y. Smith (April 2019)

Holocaust Jokes by Sarah Snider (April 2019)

A Sick Child by Dustin M. Hoffman (March 2019)

Year of the Snake by A.J. Bermudez (March 2019)

All the White People by Sue Granzella (March 2019)

How to Spot a Whale by Jacqui Reiko Teruya (March 2019 – Summer Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Two Kinds of Neighborhoods by Neil Cooney (February 2019 – Summer Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Rieb Kear (to Marry) by Adam Joseph Nazaroff (February 2019 – Summer Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Tilting at Windmills by Debbie Vance (February 2019)

Mercy by Carla Diaz (February 2019)

Casino Night by Gabriel Welsch (January 2019)

Confirmation by Alina Grabowski (January 2019 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

A Portrait of a Virgin by Rachel Cochran (January 2019 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

A Country Where I Am Beautiful by Patricia Smith (January 2019 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

A New River by Dominic Desmond (January 2019)

The Front Line by James Walley (December 2018)

Flight by Jennifer Jacobson (November 2018)

The Road to Damascus by Michael Broida (November 2018)

Ebenezer, Ebenezer by Ariel Chu (November 2018 – Spring Flash Fiction Winner!)

Out of the Fields by Bryna Cofrin-Shaw (October 2018 – Spring Flash Fiction Winner!)

Spies by Timothy Schirmer (October 2018 – Spring Flash Fiction Winner!)

You-You by Grayson Morley (September 2018)

Edged by Casey Guerin (September 2018)

Trash by Lindsay Reid Fitzgerald (August 2018)

The Dumpling Makers by Kristina Ten (July 2018)

The Art of Ending by Olivia Parkes (July 2018)

My History With Careless People, and Other Stories by Christian Winn (June 2018)

Luces by Ran O’Wain (June 2018)

The Visible Spectrum by Carlee Jensen (June 2018)

Drop Zone Summer by Nick Fuller Googins (May 2018 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

A History That Brings Me to You by Katie M. Flynn (May 2018 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Birth Stories by Sarah Harris Wallman (May 2018 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

The Deca-life Crisis by Jessi Lewis (April 2018)

The Monsters by Paul Crenshaw (April 2018)

If I Could Have Anything, I’d Only Choose This by Jill Rosenberg (March 2018 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Lepidomancy by Maria Lioutaia (March 2018 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Together, Maureen by Amanda Emil Anderson (February 2018 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Mistakes of Thought by Youmi Park (February 2018)

Night Vision by Glori Simmons (January 2018)

Private Affair by D.S. Englander (January 2018)

Demonman by Julialicia Case (December 2017 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

The Devil is a Liar by Nana Nkweti (December 2017 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

Iron Boy Kills the Devil by Sheldon Costa (November 2017 – Summer Short Story Award Winner!)

A Pack a Day by Betty Jo Buro (November 2017)

Katie Flew Again Tonight by Trent England (October 2017)

Out and Out by Latifa Ayad (September 2017 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

Lions in the House by Beejay Silcox (September 2017 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

The Wheelchair by Mahreen Sohail (September 2017 – Flash Fiction Contest Winner!)

The Cock in Cadwalader Heights by Ariel Delgado Dixon (August 2017)

Balter Cafe by Elle Flythe (August 2017)

Road Trip by Rachel Attias (July 2017)

For Danny, Twelve Years Old by Lucas Loredo (June 2017)

Longshore Drift by Scott Broker (June 2017)

Operation by Scott Gloden (May 2017 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

White Out by Caitlin O’Neil (May 2017 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Malheur Refuge by Rick Attig (May 2017 – Winter Short Story Award Winner!)

Everything is Fine by Alissa Johnson (April 2017)

According to Their Kinds by Kit Haggard (April 2017)

Night Beast by Ruth Joffre (March 2017 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Family, Family by Jeannine Ouellette (March 2017 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Good Creatures, Small Things by Cate Fricke (February 2017 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

My Sam and I by Nick Fuller Googins (February 2017)

The Drownings by Brenda Peynado (January 2017)

Babyland by Steve Edwards (January 2017)

The Harshest Landscape We Know by Lindsay Tigue (December 2016)

Rattlesnake Valley by Sorrel Westbrook (December 2016)

Mix and Match by Katherine Rooks (November 2016)

New Shadows by Kaj Tanaka (November 2016)

The Boomslang Coup by Joel Hans (October 2016)

Red by Katie Knoll (October 2016 – Short Story Award Winner!)

Ledgers by Claire Boyles (September 2016 – Short Story Award Winner!)

The First Location by Molly Reid (September 2016 – Short Story Award Winner!)

Friendly Crossroads by Lydia Conklin (August 2016)

The Cultural Ambassador of North Beach by Ezra Carlsen (August 2016)

Living Things by Landon Houle (July 2016)

At The Dog Park by Yasmina Madden (July 2016)

Summer, 2002 by Nancy Ludmerer (June 2016)

The Kingdom of Amateur Gods by Brad Eddy (June 2016)

Miracle Factory by Carmen Petaccio (April 2016)

The Split by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam (April 2016)

A Particular Woman by Molly Jean Bennett (March 2016)

When You Lived Inside The Walls by Krishan Coupland (March 2016)

Linger Longer by Vincent Masterson (February 2016 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Pool People by Jen Neale (February 2016 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Animalizing by Marisela Navarro (January 2016 – Fall Fiction Contest Winner!)

Sarajevo by Samuel Jensen (January 2016)

Bay Rhum Christmas by Frances Key Phillips (December 2015)

That Was Me Once by Megan Cummins (December 2015)

A Suggestion by Lee Conell (November 2015)

Illumination by Denise Schiavone (November 2015)

Clean Hunters by Lena Valencia (October 2015)

Double Exposure by Megan Giddings (October 2015)

Hildy by Tom Howard (September 2015 – Short Story Award Winner!)

The Golden Arowana by William Pei Shih (September 2015 – Short Story Award Winner!)

Do You Believe? By Tina Egnoski (September 2015 – Short Story Award Winner!)

The Uncanny Valley by Matthew Pitt (August 2015)

Trespassing by Emily Wortman-Wunder (June 2015)

The Light of Jackie Onuma Kennedy by Johnny Day (June 2015)

House Hunt by Jessica Lee Richardson (May 2015)

Some People Belong Inside by Shannon Peavey (April 2015)

Shine by Ron A. Austin (March 2015)

Someone to Listen by Phil Quam (February 2015)

A Thing of Little Consequence by Torrey Crim (January 2015)

Calculus BC: Final Exam by Abigail Hodge (January 2015)

Tierkling by Justine McNulty (December 2014)

Here on Out by Jesse Hassenger (November 2014)

Midlife Crisis by Angie Pelekidis (September 2014)

O Fortuna by JT Townley (September 2014)

Twelve in the Black by John Thornton Williams (August 2014)

The Mothers by Amy Scharmann (August 2014)

Pete Macaroni by Justin Thurman (July 2014)

Instruments – by Zana Previti (July 2014)

Raw – by Alex McElroy (June 2014)

Wasted Wishes – by Tara Campbell (June 2014)

The Orchard – by Matthew McKenzie Davis (May 2014 – Short Story Month)

Goose – by Theodora Zilokowski (May 2014 – Short Story Month, magical realism)

Unabomber for President – by Logan Murphy (May 2014 -Short Story Month, genre)

The Boy and The Bear – by Blake Kimzey (May 2014 – Short Story Month, flash fiction)

Linda Peterson Sounds Like A Reasonable Name – by Jennifer Dupree (May 2014 – Short Story Month)

Vegetables – by John Oliver Hodges (April 2014)

Outside The Window, The Savage Rain – by EC Belli (April 2014)

Stay – by Zachary Amendt (February 2014)

The Brothers Wham! – by Megan Giddings (February 2014)

Cousin – by Rolli (January 2014)

A River, Breaking – by Brianne Kohl (January 2014)

Plenty of Room With Nowhere To Go – by Nicholas Teeter (November 2013)

The Funeral – by Rinat Harel (November 2013)

Life After Men – by Dale Bridges (October 2013)

NUT Junction – by Davis Slater (August 2013)

Killing Jessica – by Brian Foster (July 2013)

Whiskey Over Barbed Wire – by Kiik AK (June 2013)

Roadside Cotton – by Alayna Palmer Hanneken (May 2013)

The Writer Who Slept for A Hundred Years: A True Story – by Hunter Liguore (April 2013)

Patron of the Arts – by Kate Finlinson (March 2013)

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