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Inside the Dollhouse
by Amanda Gaines I didn’t want help. After all, I’d put together the matching yellow couches I’d ordered online in less than two hours, both of which managed to not only stay upright, but hold my weight. The apartment I’d moved into was open and wide. I’d hauled in all the clothes, books, shelves, and…
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Then Someone Moves the Ground
by Vinessa Anthony DiSousa My first tooth fell out on the last night of Grandpa Renzo’s wake in the late summer of 1978, four days before the start of second grade. Not a spindly bottom tooth like most kids lose first, but a fat top front one. In the viewing room of Maroni’s Funeral Home…
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Flight
by Laura Hartenberger Six hours after my sister’s plane departed from Tokyo and three hours from its scheduled arrival in Vancouver, oxygen masks dropped from overhead. It was just before sunrise and the cabin was quiet and dark. My sister was asleep, of course. She was proud of her ability to sleep on planes,…
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An Inch Too Tight
by Mary McMyne As I extract myself—muscle by muscle, inch by inch—from my husband’s embrace, my breath catches in my throat. I’m afraid each small sound will wake him. The scratch of the straw-mattress beneath my knee. The thud of my feet on the floor. His eyes stay closed, as I slip from our cot.…
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Strange Things My OCD Has Made Me Do
by Danielle Shorr Danielle is an MFA alum and professor of rhetoric & composition at Chapman University, forever trying to make the transition from poetry to fiction. She has a fear of commitment in regard to novel writing and an affinity for wiener dogs. Her work has been published by MTV, Maudlin House, Crab Fat…
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Pinot
by Mackenzie Moore Mackenzie Moore is a writer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. She currently writes for podcasting and television; her poetry collections Alms Basket for Your Heart and Bento Box were published in September of 2020. She has trouble drinking water and believes bagels heal most wounds.
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That Cloud in Your Skull Is Your Brain
by Leanna Petronella & Jen Julian Jen Julian is a writer, illustrator, and transient North Carolinian. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MFA in fiction from UNC Greensboro. Her debut short story collection, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, was the winner of Press 53’s 2018 Fiction…
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Sequestered with Noelle and the Dog
by Paul Zdepski Paul is a painter, cartoonist, illustrator, and adjunct professor of graphic communication at the University of Maryland Global Campus in Adelphi, Maryland, and an adjunct professor of illustration at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He also lectures at Shenandoah University, the Shenandoah Arts Council, and various public and private schools. He…
