Mr. & Mrs. Chaos ~ Katherine Joyce

By the end of the day, Billy felt so tired that he almost forgot to enter the apartment complex through the back door so that no one would see him in his work clothes. He trudged up the stairs slowly, as if in a haze, his leather-gloved fingers fumbling for the keys....

The Fence ~ Austin Allan

A boy stood staring out at a field in the night. The cold night air beckoned him to walk across the twilight-soaked field into the black forest on the other side. All of his life he was told never to enter the forest, never to step over that pristine-appearing white...

Paper Boats ~ Lance Colet

(Robert, you can’t make rent payments on time, you’re not worth any job above minimum wage, and you can’t even learn to fuck the right way no matter how many times I tell you to use your hips and stop wiggling back and forth like a worm. We’re done.) Robert blinked...

Planet EvoL ~ Kira Soricelli

Content Warning: This text includes topics surrounding domestic abuse (and rape). Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong body? At the wrong time? In the wrong place? Everyday I wake up and I wonder how this world is my world, how I fit into it, and if I...

Forlorn ~ Leah Hutchinson

I awoke in an unfamiliar hallway. I sat up from the cold concrete floor below me and tried to get my head to stop spinning.   “Where am I?” I asked myself.   “I can’t remember anything.”   I looked around to see the narrow hallway I found myself in was not just cold...