Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

… and his daddy looked like T.S. Eliot, round the age of 17 wearin that, on the out, thriftshop, brown, snug fittin tweed suit and those govt., welly wrangled pair of glasses. Athalwolf was a smooth killa. He said that he wonted to take a life.

Jesse Hassenger

When Chessa’s boyfriend of three years lost his job, she dropped him straight away. As with their arguments about health insurance and vacation policies, Chessa took the company’s side.

Nina Schuyler

Of all the little girls in the world, how lucky she was to belong to Kate. Kate, with her cute dresses and pleated skirts, her twelve rainbow-colored tights and headbands. But Kate wasn’t only a girlie girl.

Cathy Rose

I put the house up for sale after my wife died and moved into an apartment across town—a one-bedroom unit, ground floor, back-facing, with a patio. The complex was corporate-run with the management right onsite.

Thorsten Nagelschmidt
Translated by Timothy DeMarco

I’m not a photographer. The camera I took most of these pictures with was given to me one afternoon on a street in Vancouver. I sat writing on the steps of a house on Howe Street, near the corner of Nelson, when a young woman in a beat-up parka walked by.

Marlin M. Jenkinsz

The cancer grew inside you, eventually protruded between your ribs and surfaced on your skin in blackened bulbs. It looked like tar on one side of your torso, expanding down to fill your belly button, down further into urethra, behind your knees, under your toenails—upward to chest, nipples, throat, cheekbones.

Chelsea Harris

There was that time I got out of my car at a red light and hopped in somebody else’s. He was a dad and his kid was strapped into the back and shame on him for not locking his doors.

Alberto Chimal
Translated by George Bert Henson

Sometimes, the children and grandchildren of Mexican drug barons choose occupations different from those of their elders. They opt for business administration, engineering, political science, and other respectable careers where their social status will afford them opportunities for advancement.

Matthew Roberson

Not long after Sarah suggested (pretty declaratively, for a suggestion, really) that Rob haul himself and his stuff out the front door to somewhere, anywhere else, he wandered across his colleague and not-distant neighbor while out for an evening’s walk of the dogs.