"Scrabble" by Paul Karnowski

Issue 12.2 Fiction

Tati and Darkness

by Marco Etheridge

A girl shelters in a cave. Outside, hellfire rains from the sky. Two children cling to the girl, her younger brother and sister…

Tesserae

by Barbara Krasner

Two large red flags bearing the Soviet hammer and sickle snapped in the smoky air at the Zaromb train station. A large five-pointed star stood out on the locomotive. Yankel Dovid had been coming to the station daily now for weeks since the Soviet occupation…

Tin Woman

by Shena Crane

Two a.m. and Vi, Annie’s mother-in-law, couldn’t sleep, so Annie, the family night owl, was keeping her company. Vi’s insomnia wasn’t a surprise…

Train to Trastevere

by Jacob Strunk

It’s hot on the train. Even with the top windows tilted open along the length of the car, the air feels thick and wet, like she’s breathing through a warm towel…