Maintenance, a flash fiction by Sarp Sozdinler

The SLM FAM had a lot to celebrate this spring and summer.

Katherine Plumhoff Before Nico moved to this apartment She spent two years in a children’s home, where the police sent her after she called them herself, and before that, she spent six years alone …

The ERB is reading the 2026 World Cup and offering daily dispatches, in collaboration with Hazar Deniz Eker and Sander Pleij (one is losing his belief in football, and the other is mesmerized by it; i...

Katherine Plumhoff Before Nico moved to this apartment She spent two years in a children’s home, where the police sent her after she called them herself, and before that, she spent six years alone …

COVER ART BY CHRISTOPHER GARLAND   FICTION The Sex Appeal of the Blues by Deirdre Danklin In the Wind by Christopher Lee Chilton Zachary by James Keith Smith Lost and Found by Katherine Plumho…

Some of life’s mysteries, its truths, are so big we can only paw at them with metaphor.

Ready, Set, Go — Katherine Plumhoff 3. Go We are cheersing to the radiant bride...

Let’s agree that it was an accident, what happened when the tourist interrupted us choosing our king. All 12 of us boys were climbing on each other’s shoulders, turning our forearms into lances, charg...

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

Ready, Set, Go — Katherine Plumhoff 3. Go We are cheersing to the radiant bride...

I hate you like vampires hate garlic, like oils hate water, like dinosaurs hate meteorites—

by Mario Aliberto III

March 14, 2019 – In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match...

when the barn in the moonlight shot them down as all around nowhere the twilight cried for clergymen so lethal was the road he spoke before your experiment was your experiment it was my joke you

You don’t have to believe, Maggie. I just need you to come along, said my friend Betts. So we both got on a bus from Leeds to Lourdes. 650 euros; not including the paninis, the fruit juice, the nightc...

Here comes that buck again. Long flank, long shanks, big crown of antlers. Hooves cracking the ice-glazed early season snow in the yard, and on the other side of the grass there is a huddling confluen...