By Marshall Klimasewiski
What was myth and what was reality in the unlikely courtship of Samina’s parents depended on who was doing the telling, and when. It wasn’t until she fell in love herself that she really started to understand why.

By Clancy Martin 1. The hermaphrodite slug, during sex, often finds itself knotted to its partner — all slugs have both sex organs, copulation is confusing for them — and forced to double back, in a kama sutra, to chew off its own penis. It can continue to have sex, after surgery, but only as [...]

By Priscilla Becker A Loss The bracelet that you gave me doesn’t fit, and because of this, I don’t own it anymore. It slipped from my wrist at a poetry reading given in a colonial building. I thought of returning to that building to rifle through the box of lost and founds. But I did [...]

By Hervé Le Tellier Anna will be forty tomorrow. For the first time in years, she has not planned a party. She could not imagine celebrating her birthday without Yves, and, in her indecision, she waited until it was too late to send out invitations. She is walking along the street, in a hurry. She [...]

By Alan Heathcock Upon the third call of land, Antonia rushed with the others up the dark hull stairs and into the red dying light.  On the deck, Vicar Hamby played his melodeon, little Bon Smithers on pennywhistle, jigging and clicking his heels.  Everyone danced and sang.  Antonia twirled in Seth Worthington’s arms, then ran [...]

By Jeffrey Rotter
Who needs Sasha Fierce when your alter ego is Man-Rock?

By Lara Tupper
As a travelling food and beverage manager, Ben received six-month assignments in exotic locales, like Japan, where he and his girlfriend Ruthie were staying now. But while Ruthie dreamed of their future, the past held potholes — would happiness be as elusive as the healing onsens?