Fiction

A domestic cyborg yearns for a life of connection and commitment, but is purchased for entirely different reasons.

Briana took her snake carefully from the cool cave, cooing while he hissed softly. He was by far the favorite of her jump ropes. Not too long, beautiful stripes, smart and devoted completely to her.

Michigan author Curtis VanDonkelaar’s flash fiction “Listen: A fable” is an allusive, allegorical, and unsentimental look at the militarist imagination.

Amsterdam-based writer Susan Carey’s preposterous and somewhat bawdy yarn concerns a woman, a man and a talking horse. Will the marriage survive?

Pennsylvania author Tom Charles Bair III brings a sense of gleeful, disjointed absurdity and determination to this tale of emotional struggle, mental illness and everyday surreality.