Team Splonk is nominating two stories from Issue 8 for Pushcart prizes: In This Tale of a Suburban Tiger, the Part of the Mother is…
The name jellyfish, in use since 1796, is traditionally applied to medusae and all similar animals. The new girl in our class is very fat.…
The gentleman has seen I saw him sink a chainsaw into another man’s chest cavity, even if I ducked behind my caravan window at the…
When visiting my grave, dance on it so I can feel the vibrations from your feet waking me, so your energy knits my bones together.…
In This Tale of a Suburban Tiger, the Part of the Mother is Played by a Bird – Gillian O’Shaughnessy
Your mother flies away today. She rugs up in her warmest feathers, her favourite yellow cardigan, worn soft in the wash, and her best plaid…
Sometimes fish swim around in the dirt. We squat down in the heat of the earth and watch them whizz by, small and shiny as…
Wrinkles, he explains to her. Craggy driftwood deposited on a windswept shore, twisting clouds reflecting the waning light at dusk, the exquisite randomness of the…
Omar, poet, calligraphy student, lover, dips his pen in the night sky, drawing down inky swirls to coalesce on a moon-silvered page. His flowing letters…
Mom and me, we moved here from Boston. Left Dad with his Cuervo Gold and broken dance academy. In that rich-fucks’ town, I tried not…
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