By Myna Chang Myna Chang writes flash fiction and short stories. Recent work has been featured in Flash Flood Journal, Atlas & Alice, Reflex Fiction, Writers Resist, and Daily Science Fiction. Anthologies featuring her stories include the Grace & Gravity collection Furious Gravity IX; and the forthcoming This is What America Looks Like anthology by [...]
By Uzomah Ugwu The guards did not even give us numbers or sound the vowels in our broken names that were whole before we arrived at this destination that keeps us moving in grief. She asked what I wanted to eat like we weren’t going to die here at any minute, any hour, borrowed moments we could, [...]
By Luke Walters The little girl’s teal hat is what caught my eye. She and a woman were hugging the bottom of a gravel drainage ditch, hidden from sight—except to me, perched high in my rig. I’d just passed dozens more like them sitting cross-legged along the highway next to green-striped border patrol trucks. Their [...]
By Kathleen Hellen “You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely.” – J.D. Salinger I’d thought that you’d do better than a sidekick, thought that you’d articulate—knowing, as you must, about the stink they left behind, the helicopters lifting from the ruins in Saigon. Of course, I smelled it as [...]
