FALL 2025

Phil
​by Peter Gordon

After his brother’s sudden death, a young boy is sent to a therapist whose own unresolved grief seeps into every session. Can his unconventional methods heal them both by confronting memory, myth, and loss?
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FALL 2025

Terrarium
​by Suzy Eynon

One late-summer afternoon, a woman watches her niece build a terrarium, recreating life behind glass. A meditation on care, control, and the fragile spaces—natural and emotional—we try to keep alive, even as everything around us leans toward collapse.
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FALL 2025

Heroes Under the Bridge
​by Atef Ebeid
translated from Arabic by Essam Al-Jassim

What becomes of heroes when the war is over? In its lingering aftermath, a boy grapples with the shame of a father broken by his ordeal as a prisoner of war. As the family travels in search of help, the past erupts into the present to reveal invisible wounds, but also the quiet, and only, heroism: that of survival, motherhood, and love under strain.
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FALL 2025

Off the Cloud
​by Michael Norris

In a near-future where writing requires a license and cloud surveillance silences dissent, Raz sells typewriters to authors from the back of his antique shop. But one day, an opportunity to rebel presents itself... A tale about the power of words in a digital world built to repress and forget.
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FALL 2025

Less than Hero
​by Roberto Ontiveros

​A man reckons with the wreckage of his life—his marriage, his father’s illness, and his own lack of sense of purpose--in stream-of-consciousness prose that unfolds with lucidity and chaos. This is an attempt to come to terms with addiction and the impossible hope of repairing what’s already burned. 
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FALL 2025

The Gloworm Group
​by Michael Gray

A well-meaning misfit tries to lead with empathy despite having none, and mentors two new colleagues in the fine art of promoting development projects never meant to get built. With dark optimism and absurd detachment, the narrative takes a sharp look at the surreal theater of professional life, asking what it means to have work ethics when the work itself is meaningless. 
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SPRING 2025

Animus
​by Brian Kirk

After her mother’s death, a woman stays behind in the family home, haunted by memories and the nightly appearance of two foxes. As grief blurs the lines between past and present, human and animal, she must confront old wounds and choose whether to carry them forward or finally let them go.  
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SPRING 2025

Green Orion Slave Girls
​by Bill Suboski

At sci-fi conventions, they dazzle as the Green Orion Slave Girls—graceful, hypnotic, unreal. But this is no pretence. They're dryads, summoned by an ancient charm rooted in an old orchard. The forest is their truth. How far would you go to protect the spell?
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Tytti Heikkinen, Things That Fly
Tytti Heikkinen, Things That Fly, 2024
FALL 2024

Microchipped
​by Sam Rappaport

A subservient content writer agrees to get a microchip implant at the behest of his boss, but how will things unfold as we follow him through this transhumanist experiment?
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Photo by Jan van der Wolf
Photograph by Jan van der Wolf
SPRING 2024

My Friend, Hamlet
​by Jennifer McCormack

​"What’s a lone jar of vitamins got to say to existential dread? Here’s what I would say. The sky is also around our feet. We prefer to think of it as above our heads [...]"
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Paul Cézanne, Pyramid of Skulls, 1901
Paul Cézanne, Pyramid of Skulls, 1901
SPRING 2024

Elevator Music
by Dimitris Passas

A solitary elevator trip leads a man to self-understanding as he finds himself reflecting on his social persona minutes away from a life-changing encounter.
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René Magritte, Golconda, 1953
René Magritte, Golconda (1953)
SPRING 2023

Anoptics
​by Shifra Steinberg

​A small-town optician becomes entirely absorbed in his latest vision-altering creation, which leads him to question the very existence of objective reality.
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Somewhere in the Multiverse, by Shifra Steinberg (2019)
FALL 2022

Children of the Sun
​by Drew Townsend

A mysterious group of children left to fend for themselves find shelter in the dark of the arcade, leaving the rest of town to speculate about them.
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Paul Klee, Miraculous Landing, 1920
The Sun, Edvard Munch (1909)