And now you should say goodbye to the ones you love. Loop a pair of clouded binoculars around your neck. Pack a peanut butter sandwich and a rusty apple and a bottomless bottle of water.

Short Stories Joel Hans 978-0-913785-69-0 Paper February 2026

Elegies for an Age of Disenchantment: A Review of Joel Hans’s The Bedtime Emptying of Our World

Well, I fell way behind on my short fiction reading over the last few months, for a number of reasons.  But here are a few stories that I ...

The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, winner of the The 2024 Moon City Short Fiction Award, is the debut short story collection from Joel Hans.

We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…

TERRESTRIAL by Suzy Eynon (Malarkey Books) is a psychologically rich portrait of a teenage girl suspended between the rituals of 1990s girlhood and the otherworldly possibilities that beckon her.

by Michael Czyzniejewski ‘What’s your hunting knife situation?’ is maybe not the thing to ask at this precise moment but I have this extra one on me and I like Lydia and she’s about to go home so I…

Your journey begins with… ☐ a stranger ☐ a damsel in distress ☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself ☐ all of the above Your transport of choice is… ☐ a tin on wheels ☐ ...