Out of Who-Ville, by Amber Sparks
The phone rings and the woman swirls her glass, watches wine the color of ruby coat the sides of the crystal. Wine is the only red she...
White Elephant, by Matt Perez
He won every time, which was part of the game. Because John McClane does not lose. Nor would we want him to. In the end, Uncle John...
Lumpy, by Phong Nguyen
for Nam “If there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet that it’s farthest from.” –Luke Dearest Father, Last year I...
Weirdsmobile, by Leslie Parry
The fight had left Betty with a cut on her hand and a speck of metal oxidizing in her cornea. It all started when Bob was rehearsing for...
A Note From the Wet Bandits, by Gina Myers
I’ve been sick for two weeks but America has been sick its whole life. America will always choose a rich white kid over two guys living...
The Gift of the (Da)magi(ng), by Alissa Nutting
Della and Jimmy fought all the time. People often told them, “You fight like a married couple!” This joke was usually told by a mutual...
Hermey in New York, by Ravi Mangla
For Hermey, those snowy, lamp-lit evenings had lost their luster. Once, as a younger man, he would frequent the queen bars in the...
Sometimes, a Rifle Really is Just a Rifle, by Erin Fitzgerald
The snowy December recess at Warren G. Harding Elementary School was only the beginning. Flick’s mother had re-bandaged his tongue after...
Good Grief: An Oral History of the Northfield Christmas Play Special, Brought to You by Coca Cola,
Charles Brown: I think it was called like the “Coca Cola Northfield Christmas Special” or something like that? And then the next year --...
The Snowman in Love, by Tom McAllister
Thirty years after the incident in the greenhouse, Karen would relate it to her second husband as a turning point in her life—an...
