A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews

Category: Fiction

  • Anita Harag

    Translated by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess The Name Whose name do you keep saying in your sleep, my girlfriend asked.  You kept repeating a woman’s name all night long.  … Read the rest

  • Kiran Kaur Saini

    The Iteration of the Crow and the Worm In this iteration of your visit, you are a crow. You are outside on the windowsill, one eye facing the room, watching, … Read the rest

  • Devon Halliday

    Work Experience In the intern cave we are hungry. It is Wednesday and we were promised pizza for lunch, but no one knows when it will arrive, or who will … Read the rest

  • Ji Hyun Joo

    Chubby Asian Superhero It’s the summer of 2010. Darwin is eighteen years old. There’s hope for change.Freshly emerged from high school, the lower part of his face is currently … Read the rest

  • Nur Turkmani
    My Sister’s Man

    from West Branch 104 Print Issue My sister is a serial dater. This year alone, a dozen lovers nested around her apartment like cheap furniture, taking up space and accumulating … Read the rest

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  • Brian Conn
    Griffin

    I first became a banker as an alternative to suicide. Sometimes in life it is best to consider an alternative. It’s OK if you hate bankers, I hate them too, … Read the rest

  • Michelle go-un Lee
    menagerie

    Read Guest Editor Juan Martinez’s introduction Mom says they are going on a vacation, just the two of them, but Henry knows it isn’t because they are packing in the … Read the rest

  • Matthew Lloyd Richardson
    4 Oxtail Dinner

    Read Guest Editor Juan Martinez’s introduction Puckett started to pick up his cane, then left it where it lay as a gesture of faith. Down the elevator, out of the … Read the rest

  • Mike Prask
    Burnpile

    Read Guest Editor Juan Martinez’s introduction The medevac choppers usually stopped coming when the snow vanished in spring. The ski resort behind us was rundown — the lift towers, the … Read the rest

  • Diego Lama
    Rebecca

    Translated by Rose Facchini I’m deeply in love. I’m very shy. I love Rebecca. I don’t dare tell her. I’ve written it on a piece of paper, but I dare … Read the rest