Naomi Kanakia
“These days, all stories need to be adventure stories.”
Sarah Heying
Sarah Heying is currently working on a PhD in Oxford, MS. She received her MFA from McNeese State University, and her short stories have previously appeared in The Greensboro Review, Broken Pencil, Kestrel, and elsewhere.
Carolyn Zaikowski
Carolyn Zaikowski is the author of the novels In a Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013.) Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared widely, in such publications as Washington Post, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, DIAGRAM, Huffington Post, and Everyday Feminism. She holds an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Find her online at www.carolynzaikowski.com.
Andrés Reconco
La Creel
My mother was obsessed with soap operas and pan dulce. One day, after my photo shoot, I went to a panadería she likes. It’s a Cuban place with … Read the rest
Case Q. Kerns
Protected Land
My share of the morsel should have lasted for at least a week or two keeping me nice and steady— two or three days if I really … Read the rest
Lillian Cummins
First
Hot, dry Friday night, late September in Texas. Callie, Mina, and Emma get ready for the football game. Constrained during the week by the plaid skirts and button-down shirts … Read the rest
Kelsey Peterson
Elin, with Pliers
Elin, with pliers, pulled an old nail from the floor of the deck. She had cut her heel on the nail the day before; there was no … Read the rest
Jake Zucker
Two Robberies
They found themselves standing over a burglar in Cape Cod, attacking him, crouched over his body like football players in the foyer of the beach house they’d rented … Read the rest
Sarah Norek
Sarah Norek's stories have appeared in The Cupboard, The Collagist, Juked, and elsewhere. She lives and works in Oregon.
Kate Wyer
Kate Wyer’s work is forthcoming inEgress and has been featured in The Collagist, Necessary Fiction, Unsaid, PANK and other journals. Her novel, Black Krim , was a finalist for the Debut-Litzer from Late Night Library. Wyer was also a finalist for the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction contest. She is the director of a nonprofit that serves people in the public mental health system of Maryland.
