Issue.39

ITUA UDUEBO This is an excerpt from A Parade of Streetlights, coming May 2023 from Read Furiously. I wrote this on a rooftop. The stars were out, those specks of…

SWEDIAN LIE In this issue, we talk to Rizal Iwan, an Indonesian freelance writer and actor who has acted in short films, various web series, and on stage, including making…

ZACH BUSCH You never love a dog quite like your first. Mine was named Rocket. “He’s a good dog,” my father always said. “A good dog deserves a good life.”…

CAITLIN OUANO A shadow. ….what’s that? It looked suspiciously like a ghostly person, a Slenderman, lean with a round head on top, like something straight out of a Paranormal Activity…

NICHOLAS POPKEY You can read Part 1 of the story here. Cassie Drake was working a crossword when the knock came. She looked up from the table, waited, then took…

JOE MADSEN Mark Twain once called truth “stranger than fiction.” Fiction, he claimed, has to “stick to possibilities,” while truth does not, but his words point to a bond between…

In this issue — our second annual creative issue — we celebrate the many forms, styles, and themes that can be conveyed through creative writing — ranging from personal essays…