Kevin Hyde Praxinoscope Biographical Speculation, Part One As he watched her dip and twirl on the parquet floor, the young man thought about how she had been shaped, how a million unremarkable events determined the face, the weight, the hair, and the height of the person he saw. She was, he thought, an unbelievable […]
Category: Winter 2019 Fiction
Kara Vernor – Mood, Stooges, Food
Kara Vernor Mood He said he could kill me. He was the third man to say it. That made three of them: infants gumming my ribs, trying for a nipple I wouldn’t give them. I felt them all now under my bedsheet—those baby-sized older men, bald, with fingernail specks and excess skin. I pulled […]
Darci Schummer – The Veil
Darci Schummer The Veil —for OCM As soon as I held the petite pewter urn, I knew I would open it. “He always held you in such high regard,” his mother said as she gave it to me. When I closed my hands around it, she wrapped her hands around mine. “You know, Marie, […]
Aiden Baker – Oolong
Aiden Baker Oolong Eileen had been seeing the man who liked feet for a month now. She realized this while she prepped the tea: a full month. Time enough for the moon to fatten and thin. Time enough to admit what it was. She clicked on the gas. Tiny blue flames licked the kettle […]
