Rent Party by Bridget Callahan

THE GUY’S APARTMENT was this storefront that had been renovated to be lived in as a studio space, so to get in you had to get past this thick steel door – the kind of door that was made to keep people out. Rivets and

59 in the East by John J. Staughton

JAMISON COATES REELED from the stab of pain as it raced up his shin. The sharp teeth of his bike pedal had savagely bit into the front pleat of his dress pants as it swung wildly in a cyclical design quirk that Jamison would never

Euphoria by Aaron Golden

ON A CLOUDY SUNDAY in May, a pale young man with a pale young gut stands outside of Euphoria Massage reading its sign. His head pulses with an eager hangover and he wears a baggy hoodie so no one will see his face. So no

The Silver Box by Paul Emerich France

CAREENING THROUGH THE DARK and dismal jungle, a silver box carried me above dead tree trunks and across a canopy. the box hustled and bustled, jostling my body back and forth, causing my brain to roll around in my skull, nausea to take over my

Loss of Bright Things by Tamzin Whelan

AIR THICKENED IN HIS THROAT, warm, tasting of papaya and old smoke. He’d logged on for flight details and now the word ‘dead’ stared from the screen, reminding him just how far he was from home. Michael wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back

Laughing Last by John J. Staughton

“WHAT ABOUT BRINGING BACK the narcoleptic clown?” Anderson proposed, spinning his pen in that annoyingly practiced way that makes it look unconscious. “We haven’t used him in months. We can squeeze four more minutes of mindless laughs out of him.” The other heads at the

Vacuum by A.W. Greene

IN THE EXPLICABLE, there is most definitely what is explicit. We are in no other way situated. To this undeniable truth, Saul G. woke up every morning, and according to this truth, followed through with the routine that had dictated the waning energies of his

SN3 | Bastille Day

Bastille Day:  Volume 1, Issue 3 Publication Date:  July 14, 2015 Authors:  Chris Blim, John J. Staughton, A.W. Greene, Nathan Silver, M. Andres, Tamzin Whelan, Clara Feda, Roger de Laci. Featuring illustrations by Brandon Ruiter. Bastille Day is available here.

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I Am the Walrus by Hugh Roberts

WE SAT AT THE BAR in Storrs, Connecticut swilling middling whiskey and waiting for the women in our lives. It had been just over a year since I’d last seen my father. He’d sold our family home and taken up residence as a houseguest with

The City in the Sky by Max Silver

WALTER STOOD FACING THE MIRROR, fingertips poised on the final button of his light gray suit. It was a perfect shade of blue—not too light, not too dark—with a beautifully curved edge and four flawless holes punched through it. The button was exactly identical to

SN2 | Equal Night

Equal Night:  Volume 1, Issue 2 Publication Date:  March 20, 2015 Authors:  Chris Blim, John J. Staughton, Max Silver, Hugh Roberts, Clara Feda, Jessica Jade Andres, Quinlan Orear, Matt Piet, La Tisha Conto, Roger de Laci Equal Night is available here.

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The Empty Bottle by John J. Staughton

SARA PICKED UP THE REMOTE control and dusted it for the second time that morning. She softly hummed a tune to herself, a discordant cross between the Final Jeopardy theme song and the original Mario Brothers background music. Years of listening to Tom’s frustrated trivia

Silly Humans by John J. Staughton

THE FIRST HOWL THAT SLICED through the painted night shook me from my thoughts, but it was quickly followed by a second, and then a dozen more. It was a haunting moan of collective ecstasy, soaring boundless across the dying sky. The middle-aged woman clad

SN1 | New Year’s Day

New Year’s Day:  Volume 1, Issue 1 Publication Date:  January 1st, 2015 Authors:  Chris Blim, John J. Staughton, Jessica Jade Andres, Adrienne Thomas, La Tisha Conto, Drew Michael, and Roger de Laci. New Year’s Day is available here. Read Chapter One of To God Knows Where by

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