The terrorist sat down at the cafe at a quarter to one. She had always been punctual. Beneath her clothing was a bomb…
Tag: Humor
New Fiction from Colin Raunig: “What Happened in Vegas”
Since getting back from deployment, Frank had gone soft. He was still a massive block of muscle, but the edges had ro…
New Fiction from Benjamin Inks: “Jack Fleming Lives!”
Okay—let me set the record straight. It started as a bunch of rumors first, before we lost control of it. But it real…
New Nonfiction from Rob Bokkon: “The Last of the Gonzo Boys: P.J. O’Rourke, War, and the Evolution of a Political Mind”
“We hear the Iraqi army is systematically blowing up buildings in downtown Kuwait City. If the architecture in Kuwait…
Forgive Me
I have confused the bombs that were in the desert with those birth control devices implanted in the uterus Forgive me…
New Poetry from Michael Chang
the secret life of simon & the whale the boy inches close to the water &…
New Fiction from Brian Barry Turner
“So, you feel the earth rotating under your feet?” As Specialist Torres grasped tightly to the doorframe of the CO’s …
New Fiction from Daniel Ford: BLACK COFFEE
Excerpted from the collection Black Coffee by Daniel Ford, September Sky Press, June 2019. “Are we ever going …
New Poetry from Abby E. Murray
Gwen Stefani Knows How to Get Everything I Want It takes a misdelivered Cosmo to finally understand what I want and h…
New Fiction from Mike Freedman: KING OF THE MISSISSIPPI
The shine and swagger of a new day. Great Recession? Not Houston. And yet, and yet there had been a speed bump in Se…
New Fiction from Steven Kiernan: “All Your Base Are Belong to Us”
For the amputees of Walter Reed Army Hospital, Segways were the new fad. It had become common to see roving gangs of …
New Poetry from John Milas
Parade the Beef “I declare this meat tasty and fit for human consumption.” – President of the Mess, CLR-27, Lan…
New Poetry from Liam Corley
In Which I Serve as Outside Reader on General Petraeus’s Dissertation [The current version of the Army’s Field …
New Poetry from Randy Brown
victory conditions My father taught me to say I love you every time you stood in the door left for school went to wor…