“By the next week/month, you’re back in the pattern. By the next month/year, the pattern has changed again. Now it’s Tears+Sex. Does your partner find your grief beautiful?” Meg Toth in Pithead Chapel pitheadchapel.com/you-will-not-c…

“I wanted so badly for him to need what I needed. Wanted him to be as weak as me, or weaker. He was looking up at the sky, though, looking at it like it’d just proposed to him.” Brian Benson in Pithead Chapel pitheadchapel.com/are-you-okay/

“She has been here since the 70s and says the neighborhood has changed, but she’s discreet enough not to tell us that we, the only non-white folks on the block, are part of the change she speaks of.” Michael Copperman in Pithead Chapel pitheadchapel.com/something/

“‘What happened? Why did you and your father drift apart? *I can’t just drop the phone at this point.*'" ‘I’m afraid I don’t have enough dimes for that story.’ ‘I understand. People just drift away sometimes.’” David Fowler in Pithead Chapel pitheadchapel.com/cornered/

“My body is a torn paper now that I mend with damp paper clothes and broken promises of change. There are no constellations to form shapes on the sky, only raindrops that form tears on fogged glass panes ...” Mrityunjay Mohan in Pithead Chapel pitheadchapel.com/sunlight-on-fl…

“I think I know now what it would be like to be the spaceman’s mother.” James King in @PItheadChapel pitheadchapel.com/aria-for-a-use…

Extremely happy to say that Issue Two: Pygmalion & Galatea is OUT NOW! Please enjoy this latest issue, jam-packed with singular work by incredible, talented and open-hearted writers. (link below!)

“Stone, remembering it was once shifting sands, yields to my slow unfurling.” Melissa Coffey in COLD SiGNAL Magazine (SUBS CLOSED) cold-signal.com/nascent-dream-…

"‘*Tell me*'—she interrupts him, voice trembling, ‘tell me how you’re going to help me. You’re not a lawyer. You’re not even a person.’” Derrick in COLD SiGNAL Magazine (SUBS CLOSED) cold-signal.com/the-princess-i…

“‘… imagine there’s a staircase in front of you, and at the top of those stairs is the farthest patch of the universe. Do whatever you can to get to it.’” Catherine Roberts in The Mersey Review themerseyreview.com/issues/4/vanis…

“Tilda reminds Bob that even if he misses an inning there’ll be at least eight more. Bob continues eating, marinara sauce dripping from his chin.” Lori Cramer in The Mersey Review themerseyreview.com/issues/4/dinne…

“… those grown and gone from the town miss it like a ghost limb. Some return after decades away. Lucy does. These former children remember everything.” Patricia Q. Bidar in The Mersey Review themerseyreview.com/issues/4/sands…

"... I hoped our neighbors pulled through as they always do, over and over, to live with such obstinance is a must." shome dasgupta in Where Meadows wheremeadows.com/shome-dasgupta

“They never found her body, so there was no evidence. I curled into myself, nursing my memories of her like a glass of whisky — flashes of her amber hair catching the light.” Sumitra Singam (she/her) in Porch LitMag porch-litmag.com/the-asymptote/

“Esme feels a fizzing in her belly at the light of mischief in his eyes. ‘Can we go to where you *really* are?’” cole beauchamp 🏳️‍🌈 and Sumitra Singam (she/her) in @newflashficrev newflashfiction.com/esme/

“Her smile suggests she has done me a kindness, but the proffered sorry is paltry, a penny dropped into one of those ‘Take a penny, leave a penny’ trays you sometimes see at gas stations and Chinese restaurants.” kim magowan & Michelle Ross New Flash Fiction Review newflashfiction.com/courtesy/

"She was mimicking the voices of others by accident. She couldn’t help it." "The whispering was doing its job until it wasn’t." "How long does it take to outrun your predicaments?" bc when they call you "Infomercial"... Claire Hopple in Waxwing Magazine waxwingmag.org/items/issue31/…

"In the photograph, the rhinoceroses have their backs to each other. What if they hate each other?" kim magowan in jmww Journal jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/fla…