Issue 12.1 Fiction

"The Deepest Cut" by Brett Stout

Surfing the Gene Pool

by Marc Audet

“Peter and Mary had wanted children ever since they were married five years ago…”

I Believe in Something

by Nick Caccamo

“Here’s the thing about hunger… “

Secrets of the Sea

by Duane M. Engelhardt

“The morning had been quiet, uneventful so far, as Lily scanned the beach hunting for lost and neglected items that had a way of burrowing like sea creatures into the sand…”

La Cantadora

by Karina Dove Escobar

“There was something about singing that made her soul swell…”

Lady Moscow

by Joel Fishbane

“Austen found me as I was getting changed and the message was to the point: get thee to the hospital…”

Till the Mourning Comes

by Adam Rotstein

“I am not part of time…”

Dead in the Water

by Lucas Selby

“The blood blooms around him, forming some sort of disjointed, abstract heart in the water…”

Head-H

by Tara Troiano

“Last night, I dreamed temperatures climbed into the 130s, so they sold us extra-strength sunscreen and cars with UV windows and told us to recycle more and turn our ACs down…”