This issue of Flight marks one year of sharing what we think is some of the best damn writing and art out there. Flight 1 landed in August of 2025, which means that by now we've passed that one year m...

In Sean Ennis’s Rat Aesthetics, we meet the Old Rats: a mysterious motorcycle gang that has quietly infiltrated Bramble, Missouri. They aren't your typical outlaws. They eat duck confit croque madames...

Its Powerful Parking Lot I did not sleep like a winner. Yes, I had watched Vivian turn one hundred dollars into almost three hundred thousand dollars at the craps table. And yes, we had made love i...

When I Knew Nothing Some Saturdays Meg woke up with a stranger she’d hooked up with at The Red Raven. I wondered— did he make her a Prairie Oyster for her hangover like I did when I stayed over in ...

Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...

Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

Rarely Somewhat Acceptable Matthew Jakubowski (he/him) is a multi-genre writer based in Philadelphia. He is the author of a chapbook of micros & flash, Ghost in the Rain: Stories (Bottlecap Press, 20...

What Ben Said Sarah Said The opening piano run ascends and descends at once, like rain on a windshield, the way it creeps up as it falls down. My body follows, heart accelerating while my breath sl...

The Marshmallow Story To stick it to management, I clocked in wearing a navy plaid three-piece with a matching tie instead of my normal T-shirt and apron. I’d bought a Goodwill suit because Bob had...