Identity Theory has published original literature—fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and more—online since 2000.Based in southern Nevada and featuring an international staff of three dozen editors, ...

Reflecting on friendships at 35

Product Details: Paperback : 156 Pages ISBN : 9781951631314 Cover design: Gwen Grafft About the Book: From the tale of Lady, the mare who read a Duke University psychologist’ s mind, to te...

In fifth grade we had a school-wide read-a-thon for 33 minutes. Every class from K-12 stopped what they were doing and read their book from 1:00 – 1:33. Mrs. Carney and all the other teachers encourag...

With each pass around the center of the store we must circle the giant Ferris wheel situated in the store’s heart like a monument, shrieks of glee playing as a soundtrack over this consumerist para…

Her dad brings her to a Royals game. They're playing well this year, the first good year since the 2015 World Series. It's good to see, good for Kansas City. Bobby Witt Jr., right? But she isn't having it. Her dad is trying too hard. He's wearing a jersey, slides, no socks, no hat. He's going to get sunburned for sure.

I should’ve been compost, in and out, no strain on this world I can’t seem to love any more nobly than a pig-loving bacon-eater.

The UPS driver doesn’t even get the chance to ring the doorbell. I’m already on my front porch, in my socks and jeans and an old, faded t-shirt. I tear the box open and slide the boots on. The fit is…

Broken pens, Bic lighters, and sticky dimes and pennies floated up through the cushions of the sofa and pinched the thighs of the teenagers who were all supposed to be somewhere else. Someone fiddled ...

There’s this 1995 Batman Forever pinball machine for sale on Facebook marketplace, which I know because in the evenings my fiancée, Liz, likes to steal my phone and “take a stroll through the market” ...

There’s this 1995 Batman Forever pinball machine for sale on Facebook marketplace, which I know because in the evenings my fiancée, Liz, likes to steal my phone and “take a stroll through the market” ...

There’s this 1995 Batman Forever pinball machine for sale on Facebook marketplace, which I know because in the evenings my fiancée, Liz, likes to steal my phone and “take a stroll through the market” ...

There’s this 1995 Batman Forever pinball machine for sale on Facebook marketplace, which I know because in the evenings my fiancée, Liz, likes to steal my phone and “take a stroll through the market” ...

The roomba has locked itself in the bathroom and isn’t coming out. Keeps banging from wall to bathtub to cabinet to shitter. I keep waiting to hear vomiting, toilet flushing, toilet seat smashing back...