The Night Shift by Catie Koch Six empty soda cans littered the desk when the phone rang. It was a strange hour for a call, going on four a.m., but Corey popped the tab of a seventh can and swiped the phone from its stand. “Y’ello, this is the Museum of Modern...
The Hope of a Swan’s Feather by: Emily Pinto Trigger warning: mentions of suicide “We are no longer giving you a choice.” I sank into a cold leather chair in the corner of my guidance counselor’s office; it had just become October weather, barely in time...
False Cowboy by: Lily Griffith I’d been watching the man across the bar for a while now. He was at the far end, and I cut him off about an hour ago, as he had been giving me and a few others a decent amount of trouble, shouting and muttering about some...
Grow Back by: Finley Witzke He arrived in the village as the sun peeked over the horizon on a crisp, clear winter morning. His boots crunched on the frosted grass, but only barely — he was as light-footed as a deer and moved as smoothly as a snake. He wore a...
The Guardsman by Ryan Zaff “Dawn at sundown! The king rides home!” Then sounded the horns, shrill and proud, as the watchmen in their towers shouted this refrain. In the city’s center, the forum bell was rung in its tower, the long toll punctuating every horn...
Playing House by Grace Poyta “Mary Kate, don’t you want to try being the sister this time?” “NO, I HAVE to be the dog”, she hissed on all fours. We eyed each other. Everyone knew the rules of playing house: you had to switch roles each time so that everyone would have...