Flash Fiction
Taylor Denton
Subtle Body
Barrett Bowlin
Rough Beast
Stephen Ground
Spice
Janson Cobiella
What the Dead Deer Said
Francine Witte
Jack is coming to kill me
I Come for a dozen eggs, but instead
Sam had never seen so much blood
Marah Herreid
Neonatology
Short Story
Gary Beck
The Ice Man
James Bassett
Darkward
Alexander Manzoni
Snowblind
Mark Mellon
Trick Roller
Damien Donnelly
Between the Panes
Conor Barnes
Heal the Precious Children
Matthew Keeley
No One Ever Finds Her
Lorna Wood
A Trip to the Seashore
Gerald Kells
Stone Walls
Michelle Cottage
Mother’s Boy
Nick Perilli
In Residence
John Ricciardelli
The Darkest Valley
Adam Down
ScreamQueen16
Creative Nonfiction
Andy Betz
My First
Essay / Short Criticism
Delaney Burk
An Analysis of Maternal Victimhood in Gothic Literature
Poetry
RC deWinter
exsanguination
callithump
dream diary no. 2
telling it on the mountain
Theo Best
Charon Ushers In the Cinephiles
Victoria Nordlund
Everyone Knows that Vampires Are Toxic
Clark Morrow
For Jason, Dead at Age 5
Gregory Loselle
The Garden of Albertus Magnus
Cricket in the Garage, October
Jack’s Ekphrastic
The Death Mask of Isaac Newton
Heartbreak Weather
Stephen Pollock
Spine of Dorian Gray
Ash
Locomotion
Pendulum
The Waxing
Naomi Bess Leimsider
Wild Evolution
Gone Toxo
Mother Writes the Creation Story, Not God
Sex Fat
Pure O
Corbin Louis
For Three Friends I Once Knew, and Still
A Joke
What Hollow, What Song
Honey, Don’t Ya Know
We Did
John Monagle
The Grenade
Kevin’s House
Burial
A Walk in the Neighborhood
History Lesson
Leslie Lindsay
Sewing
Genes
Room
My Mother Wants In
Anew
Solace
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri
Shoes
Jake Sheff
The Flaming Hair of Kindness
A History of Demons
Nicole Zelniker
11 PM
Golden Afternoon
Ann DeVilbiss
Possession
Solstice
Dmitry Blizniuk
I’ll Never Forget
Philip Elliott
Angels
Susan Butler
This Is the Face of a Widow
If You Hadn’t Gone
Wake
Jacqueline Kate Goldblatt
Umbral Lamentations
Will Wells
Lights Out
Gerald Wagoner
If You Love Me
James Schneider
Red Queen
Father Is Late
Lore Graham
The Vintage of Regret
The Return of Sacred Smog
The Gravity
Venus Burns
Mindhive
Lane Larson
Smokers Need Not Apply
An Evening Hike
Rabbit Church
K. B. Ballentine
Darkness Has a Shape
Dark Throat of Evening
Pursued
Jack Bedell
The Mysterious Axman’s Jazz
Nothing Beats the Taste Sensation When Maple Syrup Collides with Ham
This Is the Water and This Is the Well
Yuan Changming
Speciation
Relocating
An Other Revolution
Displacement Sale at the Yard
Epilogue: A Parallel Poem
John C. Mannone
In Praise of Aphrodite
Monkey with Cymbals
Looking Through the Keyhole
Dante’s Dream
Cole Depuy
Birdseed
The Key
Everyone’s a Cemetery
First Date
A Lousy Pack of Smokes
Maggie Hess
Trial of Three
Funeral Visitor
L. E. Francis
Wheel of Fortune
Judgment
The Sun
9 of Swords
The Hermit
Cara Smith
Seneca
Elizabeth Pierce
he thought himself a god
Steve Sibra
The Woman in the Box
Room Full of Kittens
Mollie Jackman
Kaleidoscope
Emily Dolan
There’s Nothing Under the Bed
Carcass
As We All Have
Life Is But
Kemry Farthing
Hide and Seek
Lewis Humphries
Grief
Sarah Lilius
Departure
Holly Woodward
Gh(o)st
Buried Emotions
Fallout
Detritus
Cortege
Cover Image: Luis Ricardo Falero, Witches Going to their Sabbath, (1878)