Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets
Excerpt From the Title Story Zigfrīds Imants Lenc did not have a name on his home planet, because names were superfluous, but in Lummings, Alabama, where he operated the Latvian restaurant opposite the...
View Article2015 Big Moose Prize – Finalists & Semi-Finalists
We’d like to thank all of the writers who participated in the 2015 Big Moose Prize, and we are pleased to present the semi-finalists and finalists: Finalists Dream Museum by Michelle Blake Girl from...
View ArticleThe Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers
There are women writing short stories today that take chances, risks—you might even call their work provocative. The Lineup is a collection of twenty of the most compelling, powerful, and honest...
View ArticleBlood: Stories
Sharply strange and eerily familiar. Absurdly funny and terrifyingly serious. Surreal, fantastic, gritty, real. The stories in Matthew Cheney’s Hudson Prize-winning debut collection range across...
View ArticleWhere We Go When All We Were Is Gone
“You should be here; he’s simply magnificent.” These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju...
View ArticleThe Big Book of Sounds and Other Stories
Excerpt from “I Want This Always” # 41 – A gentle late spring wafting with overtones of 2 AM on the stretch of grass adjacent to the University library one block from your dormitory, coupled with a...
View ArticleTrue Ash
Microchips that don’t know when to stop, pop culture clones poised to take over the planet, a mysterious burial in a popular park, candy cigarettes wreathed in sugary ash. In these interlocked short...
View ArticlePrimitivity
Excerpt from “Spirit Transcript #41: Liberty Briscoe, retired madam, death 1882” Working girls never shed a man’s skin. You can wash his scent from your sheets. Wash inside and out, but the next thing...
View ArticleSomething Like the End
Winner of the Fall 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition Laced with foreboding and propulsive menace, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier’s new collection of short fiction reverberates with the clang of alarm...
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