K.M. McCorkendale

After high school you locked the prom dress body in a closet in a basement in a home you hoped your parents would sell. (But why did he ask you to the dance if he didn’t want to touch, knowing you would’ve said yes to being twirled?)

Aaron Rabinowitz

I said, We are also driving, as if I were defending something, justifying a ten-hour drive for a five-hour event, our way of life, the existence of a highway, the death of a skunk. We are also driving. We are also driving.

Mario Aliberto III

we, the bathroom vaping kids, the detention kids, the summer school kids, the 2.3 GPA kids, the our parents haven’t checked our homework since elementary school kids, the no curfew on a school night kids, the can you give us extra credit so we can graduate kids

Benjamin Brindise

So, when the pain echoes in her joints and thirty years have fallen off her like a man whose harness has come loose at the top of a skyscraper, she is trying to bury her arrow in the morality of it. There was a killing in it. But no one to blame. 

Will Musgrove

The elderly man sitting across from Fred looked at him, and their eyes locked. I’m afraid I won’t be remembered appeared in Fred’s mind as if someone had just shaken a Magic 8-Ball, but it wasn’t his thought.

Jane O'Sullivan

always so serious, he is belligerent, sensitive to borders, plastic brain molding to the rules, holding them in, keeping them all safe and who knew kids could be such cops but he is trying so hard, such a good kid