Spring 2012 Issue Flash fiction by Rigoberto González, Stephanie Waxman, Jim Daniels, Michael Griffith, Robert Olen Butler, Amy E. Weldon, Paul Griner, as well as work from other notable writers. __________________________________________________________________________________ Fall 2011 Issue Flash fiction by Robert Olen Butler, Joyce Carol Oates, Donald Ray Pollock, Virgil Suarez, Josh Russell, Steven Barthelme, Ron Carlson, Aimee Bender, David Galef, Stefanie Freele, Paul Griner, Michael Martone, and John Biguenet, as well as work from other notable... Continue Reading

It seemed like a good idea, just a minute or two ago, but now, hanging by his cramping hands from the balcony railing of his hotel room at three o’clock in the morning, he begins to think it may have been a bad idea, a very bad idea. It isn’t the way he remembers it, this old prank they used to pull on spring breaks twenty years ago, Frank and his frat brothers, just to scare the girls. It was easy, the way he remembers it. You hung there for a couple of minutes, you pretended to slip once or twice, and then the girls would shriek that shrill scream that meant, OK, you stupid boys, you can have us tonight, just come back onto the balcony and stop this before somebody gets hurt. But now the only shriek Frank hears is the wind whipping off the Gulf of Mexico and whistling... Continue Reading

Robert Olen Butler “John the Baptist“ Joyce Carol Oates “The Journey“ Virgil Suarez “Black Horse Church“ Katie Cortese “Hide and Seek“ Peter Markus “Good, Brother“ Ron Carlson “The Gunslinger’s Lamentation“ Aimee Bender “Winter“ Donald Ray Pollock “Life“ Claudia Smith “Pillow“ Josh Russell “Moscow“ Aubrey Hirsch “Multiple Sclerosis FAQ“ Paul Griner “The bleating of the lambs“ Michael Martone “The Mayor of the Sister City“ Elizabeth Clausen “Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Guide to the Apocalypse“ John Biguenet “Grip“ David Galef “Question Authority“ Katie Manning “Dream... Continue Reading