Three Hypothetical Video Games

BY Daniel Hornsby,
Racehorse Run Few play Racehorse Run as its designers intended. The racetracks and horses, the jockeys and gambling, all amount to the mildest of entertainments at best. Only its backgrounds—the wispy clouds and lush tree lines, the beautiful…

Lake Erie

BY Tyler Barton,
The brothers planned to treat the wedding like a family reunion, intended to prove who was still and who was never. The wife-to-be was worried, but the groom insisted these guys were saviors—that day at the lake, running to him with their…

I Want Your Skull When You Die

BY Julia Dixon Evans & Ryan Bradford,
ALLIE It's winter when she asks. Though it's never really winter here. It's mid 60s out, and we stand beneath a king palm tree. "What if I asked you to go out to the desert?" She pauses. "To help me dig a grave?" "Lou," I say. "You're…

Bring the Half and Half and Spill It

BY Kate Jayroe,
The Prodigal Son cannot wait for his old bathtub of a mother to croak. He says to the bathtub, Mother, I very much would like my inheritance. Unfortunately for us both, health smoothies continue to afford you a long, undeserved existence here…