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Vicarious Transubstantiation

By Emilee Prado

Ann and Andy have a small, quiet apartment. They live tucked into a nook in a towering building, which is filled…

A Matter of Survival

By Stephanie Yu

1. You are six, and your brother is four. The sun is so bright compared to the lush New Jersey…

romantic connecticut

By Dani Blackman

there is no romantic connecticut the text says, but I don’t take this as rejection. I don’t blame autocorrect. I…

Tiny Little Goat

By Jasmine Sawers

After you left, a goat took up residence in the left ventricle of my heart. I didn’t know about my…

Boy

By Tochukwu Okafor

Boy, on the night your mother brought you into this noisy, miserable world, at exactly 11:18 pm, on a rainy…

A Middle Finger Flipped on a School Bus

By Davon Loeb

On the school bus you should have seen them, monkeying around about wheels, bottles of non-alcoholic beers, Rock-Paper-Scissor, two kids…

Cheerleader

By John Haggerty

Alison was a cheerleader, and the second-prettiest girl in our class. These qualities seemed extremely important to us at the…

No Matter How Pretty They Look

By Kristina Saccone

It was our first once-a-month grandmother-granddaughter date at the JCC. I hopped on the treadmill while you did Jazzercise, all…

Your Lover, The Clown

By Iona Rule

You meet him at your niece’s birthday party, where the kids run feral, coked-up on pink juice and icing. While…

Remember Your Goals

By Michele Zimmerman

Write down your goals for tomorrow. Write down your goals on a small pocket-sized notepad so that you can take…

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