It was a year ago Sunday actually that the Ralfsons didn’t show at our weekly block party, and even though we thought it odd, we weren’t too concerned until late the following Tuesday, when we were al...

After the 1994 Arizona experiment in closed ecosystems.We are all dressed in red.I wouldn't do this if I wasn't in love.The man who stands in the centerof the press photos. His brawny bald head,his ab...

It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.

It is reminiscent of late-night Cinemax. It is a telenovela, juicy parts only. The book is rightfully missing from children’s early reader versions. It is making the youth pastor blush.

You don’t have to read very far into Kill Dick to notice that this isn’t your average whodunnit thriller. The characters are complex in the way that real people are: genuinely kind but also sort...

Kinga is 6 when she arrives in Newark, New Jersey. She pukes during the arduous trans-atlantic flight, and the motion sickness makes her forget her teddy bear on the plane.

Sure, he had separation anxiety but they took him out with them whenever they could, and when they did leave him in the house on his own they always put the radio on.

Hard to believe it’s been over a decade since I started using your password. I got it from our mutual friend Carie back when she and I were roommates. She said you two went to college together in the ...

Hard to believe it’s been over a decade since I started using your password. I got it from our mutual friend Carie back when she and I were roommates. She said you two went to college together in the ...

John built an inflatable bridge. The hubris of it, the sheer audacity. I told him bad idea but telling John anything is like arguing with weather. We went to look.

In the summer of 2024, I was going through a divorce and living with my mother… which feels like the first line of one of my short stories, but my life tends to repeat itself and sometimes my stories ...

In the summer of 2024, I was going through a divorce and living with my mother… which feels like the first line of one of my short stories, but my life tends to repeat itself and sometimes my stories ...

Aphrodite comes over to my house every day after school. Aphrodite likes Euphoria. Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater onl...

Roger Rabbit carries his belongings in a bindle like a fool / He left the door to his wife’s apartment open as he walked through to Toon Town but turned towards his favorite juice joint for a celery &...

Booby Traps — Ryan-Ashley Anderson THE FIRST TIME I KISS A GIRL, I’m nine years...

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The sun has an extra weight,a hammer that falls like hurricane when we make the sky quakeat least once per year. But now

The Mystic Pigman is barely special. No clear eyewitness accounts, no police record. The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s...

Pool Party editors share their top five "best-of books" from 2025 as well as a few reco's for 2026!

When my parents got divorced, my dad moved into a house three blocks away and left the shed in our backyard to rot. The kind of shed with cheap plywood walls, a warped door, and windows smudged with s...

When my parents got divorced, my dad moved into a house three blocks away and left the shed in our backyard to rot. The kind of shed with cheap plywood walls, a warped door, and windows smudged with s...

Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting our own extinction with significantly less flair. While the results of our warming planet are c...

Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting our own extinction with significantly less flair. While the results of our warming planet are c...