I found a piece of myself in the dryer, shrunken from the heat yet muscular and sweaty. It was my dream of being an Olympic gymnast, and all the power that nailing a routine instilled in me until it tore like my...
Going to Pieces
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Chelsea Stickle
Chelsea Stickle is the author of the flash fiction chapbooks Everything’s Changing (Thirty West Publishing, 2023) and Breaking Points (Black Lawrence Press, 2021). Her stories appear in Passages North, Fractured Lit, Identity Theory, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and others. Her micros have been selected for Best Microfiction 2021 and 2025, the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2022 and the Wigleaf Longlist in 2023 and 2026. She lives in Annapolis, MD with her black rabbit George. Learn more at chelseastickle.com.
The Blob Takes Manhattan
Now that the Arctic isn't cold anymore, The Blob is awake and tearing through malls like a post-breakup trust fund baby. After it drinks the oceans dry, The Blob returns to North America. The 24-hour news cycle was...
Ghost Girl Ballet
After Edgar Degas’ “Dance Rehearsal, 1874” People say ballet theaters are haunted by the dancers who died tragically young, but that’s not true. Theaters are haunted by bored ghost girls. They’ve spooked everyone worth...
Quarantine Reading with Chelsea Stickle
There are collections that are so good that instead of ripping open the packaging they come in and reading until my eye sight’s blurry, I carefully set them aside. Knowing that one day soon, I’ll need them and they’ll...