QUEER, FEMINIST, & BIPOC GOTHIC with fiction GUEST EDITED BY KIRSTEN IMANI-KASAI Flash Fiction Jezebel Harper Roadkill Mother Aimee Parkison Making Love to Mothman Tiffany Smalls Spector Chiama…

Submissions for Volume 8, Issue No. 4 (10/31/2025)–themed “Dark Numerology”–will open 2/14/2025 and close 6/30/2025. Numerology is the study of the occult significance of nu…

CFS: DYSTOPIA Issue Publication Date: 4/1/2024 We are seeking poetry, flash fiction, short stories, essays, and short criticism for Volume 8, Issue No. 2, themed “Dystopia.” The Merriam…

CFS: DYSTOPIA Issue Publication Date: 4/1/2024 We are seeking poetry, flash fiction, short stories, essays, and short criticism for Volume 8, Issue No. 2, themed “Dystopia.” The Merriam…

Alt: a flock of birds are flying over a group of people running away from the in front of a building, from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds

Ell Huang    I’d never interrupt when my mother talked in her sleep. Despite her tender touch stroking my hair, the fierceness of Nanay’s words tingled on the back of my neck. &#82…

Lio Abendan   Apollo’s hand closes on her wrist, making her bones strike together like a chord, and Daphne’s body splits open. Growth awakens in her ribcage. The tree begins as a nub lodged un…

Vanessa Reid     He broke my daughter’s heart that day. That’s how I ended up there, folded around her in her tiny childhood bed. One large spoon cradling a smaller one. She slept hard, and he…

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Greg Sendi   If you ask why Moss Sr. come down on me first like he done, I’d say I don’t know except maybe I might coulda, you know. I don’t know. You can jest imagine. After we come home, I t…

Tamara Burross Grisanti Founder / Editor-in-Chief Tamara Burross Grisanti is a writer, editor, poet, and publisher. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Coffin Bell Journal. Prior to founding Cof…

The old city district is infested with decommissioned angels. They scutter about on row home walls, a mass of eyes and teeth in search of orderly violence, but there is no longer any voice speaking pe...

You have never known love until your introduction to structuralism. You have never laughed as loudly as you laugh at Freud. You study for your literary theory class like you chew delicious morsels …

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