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Root CanticleBe honest, now. What did you think you would find? You have ventured all the way to this cellar, meaning you must have first braved the porch...
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Media Review: The MenuThere exists an intermittent but very real phenomenon of movie critics, mostly male but some female, revealing---sometimes inadvertently and...
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Alternate Rooms“Alternate Rooms” was inspired by the duality of the perception of my being. At the tail end of my struggle begins a parallel eventide of my escape...
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Author Spotlight: Wen-yi LeeFemale sexuality has so often been designated monstrous in and of itself, and women have so much capacity for rage because of the way they’ve been...
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Laura Lau Will Drain You DryThe day after the picture of your boobs gets sent around the school, a mosquito lands on your tongue and bursts like a ripe cherry. You are crying...
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The H Word: The Monster at the End of This EssayI’ve watched monsters topple cities, scorch the countryside. I’ve explored the caverns they dwell in and swum the depths they arose from. When I...
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Terms of ServiceMany EULAs take seventeen (or more!) hours to get through. I always feel like I’ve signed away a piece of my soul after agreeing to a super long...
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Author Spotlight: Kristina TenI felt that thing a lot of first-gen kids talk about feeling: neither here nor there, too Russian to be American, too American to be Russian, both...
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The Dizzy RoomMom and Dad all but forced the games on me. It’s hard to believe now. All you hear about these days is how kids don’t want to play water balloons...
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Interview: Eric J. GuignardEric J. Guignard has gone from a short story writer to an acclaimed and award-nominated novelist (for his first novel, 2019’s Doorways to the...
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A Girl Defines HerselfYears ago, while working online in curriculum development, I was set the task of helping high school students understand Hamlet. Many approaches...
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Author Spotlight: Erik GroveI think fans can expect everything I write will have the weariness, dread, and anger of living on the knife’s edge of a failing world paired with...
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HomeOne could, if necessary, hide between the studs in your wall. Shoulders, narrower than the gap. Back against the plywood of the exterior panel;...
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The H Word: A Jaded Eye on Good Girls Gone Bad in Asian CinemaIt’s time to let the women with the long wet hair in Asian cinema and their Western remakes rest. They’re tired. Now I’m not saying the ghost...
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When At Last He Was EmptyI can’t recall the precise moment of inspiration that spawned this poem, but it’s a merger of two unsettling notions taken to terrible extremes....
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Editorial, February 2023I like to think of this issue as a bit of first aid for the cabin-feverish soul. We’re pulling out all the stops on ultraviolence and creepiness...
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Author Spotlight: Dominique DickeyI’ve always been interested in stories that begin after the epilogue---stories that acknowledge that life goes on, past the big moment of narrative...
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Who The Final Girl BecomesCinda begins the worst afternoon of her life by hiding in a closet. It’s spring break of her senior year of high school, and she’s rented a cabin...
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de•crypt•ed—Taylor on BulgakovMy quarterly review column “Read This!” is being replaced by “de•crypt•ed,” a space where guest authors revisit favorite books to decode their...
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FruitAs for the process of writing the piece---this was one of the pieces I wrote with fellow writers in a weekly writing session where someone gives a...
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Author Spotlight: Katherine QuevedoAs I thought about what I was trying to say in this story, to make it more than just a transcription of a bad dream, it occurred to me it was...
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Until It Has Your ReflectionI hold the crayon to the mirror, ready to swipe it across my reflection’s neck just as my husband, Tomas, instructed. Make a quick horizontal line,...
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The H Word: The Living Dead—Us Versus ThemDo the dead still matter? Years ago they did. Very much so. Especially in the horror genre. The dead---of the shambling, ambulatory, flesh-hungry...
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Last Night at the SideshowThis story started life just over nine years ago---October 30, 2013, to be exact---as an assignment in an online workshop taught by Craig...
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Editorial, January 2023Apparently after all the family-centered holidays in November and December, most people are sick of their families and ready to hang out with...
