A Brontosaurus Can’t Walk Me Down the Aisle
I rarely come home these days, preferring to meet in the brightly lit diner on 5th Street.
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but goddamn she’s gonna solve the case if it kills her
I work at Taco Bell
My shoulder was hurting.
A Short History of My Apartment
[T]hat was pretty inconsiderate.
The Girl with the Teeth
Pretty girls smile with teeth.
Asparagus
snapped head perched
Three Meals, Waterloo, IL, Christmas 2025
he relents when the spoon melts in the pan
Adam is Dead
One headline on the last page surprised her.
baby, with this sun shining & snow falling, it could be winter all year long
the ice is melting from the gutters
The Spot
I wonder if this something I should get repaired or something
When I Grow Up—a small show with a big heart
When I Grow Up premiered at the 2024 Melbourne Comedy Festival, it returned for the 2025 Melbourne Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe, among others.
CHADBOT
“Oh lord. CHADBOT, I’d like to speak with a live representative.”
The Day I Drove Into an Elderly Person
She laughed, the way my grandmother did in the nursing home when she didn’t know who I was.
On the Suboptimal Conditions For Growing Roses
He wonders if one day he’ll awake to find himself a cockroach.
Commitment
“You avoided my question.”
decomposure
A golden shovel after “Be Nice To Me” by The Front Bottoms
Underneath
What else was I supposed to do?
Science at Eleven
Mathematics at nine. English at ten. Science at eleven.
hungrier than we admit
you know how i love things / that crunch
It's Like
It’s like three of the four safety mechanisms failing on one of those bombs.
Ode to Retinal Imaging
Don't blink, you remind yourself
The Journalist and Mark Mimmel’s Niece
When love burns it's still love.
Not-So-Quiet Quitting
I can’t do this job anymore, Sara.
The Cult-Classic Flick Based on the Best-Selling Unauthorized Biography of You—
...farther than slow dancing is from
a heaved hand grenade...
Étude, winter
We gave the lake our attention, our devotion...
City People
There is a beautiful woman who lives across from my building, always folding over on herself.
Carla's Home
“Who hates pancakes?” I ask.
Wild Things
When they married, Frida was already here.
after love
i lost my best friend. i lost my boyfriend. i lost my first apartment.
I gave my iPhone Pepto-Bismol
it protested
my big ol’ day of self-pity
(wanker)
The Trials and Tribulations of a Remodel
Thiago had left the upside-down window open.
Absolution by Einstein
What are the odds, Dad?
Ode to Staying
Ricky looks good in white.
Quantum Theory as Third Person Bio.
This bitch has wings.
1001 New Jersey Nights
Can you be nostalgic for a time you weren’t alive?
Red gate and horse shit
We don’t make
eye contact.
An Obtuse Angle
Back then you did not complain to the authorities about math teacher phallic indiscretions.
Hacking Back
we stand in alleys trading blood
for a signal, for an upload, hands raw
Poem About A Fictional Story I Told My Girlfriend
For Ifeoluwa
One Too Many
God. Bless. Lana.
Something Real
Warning: Sexual Content
Hollow Bones
If I was sad enough, I would go out to get eaten. Do you know what I mean?
Amy's Perfect Life
“You deserve to be seen.”
Waspmobile
There is a wasp nest under the hood of my car. I do not know this yet.
Step Right Up and Hear the Siren's Song!
Then the siren lost her voice altogether.
Real Magic
"Felix can't always control his magic," she confided.
Night Rescue
“One of the goats is out."
The Holy Land
You must have the wrong Rodney Wilder.
To Each Their Own
Some things are easy.
5:02:37PM
Alice wasn’t good at explaining herself when Gary got annoyed.
Dragon Egg
“Do any of them like Minecraft?” he asks.
A Letter from the Editor
Thank you
Where The Water Took Me
Baptism, in fact, won't save them at all.
WHERE IS DEXTER WHEN YOU NEED HIM?
So what did I expect, right?
A Bird Called Wonder
A hummingbird is special.
Surfer
We asked the 911 lady—Evie—about the weirdest call she ever got.
Rosa Canina
Grip the woody rose’s stem, bend before it.
ANTI-VENOM
I scream, waving her off with a bronzed arm that spent all of yesterday in the surf and the sun.
Indianapolis Nights
I am home.
Selfies
When you laugh it’s genuine. I can see it in the crinkles around your eyes.
Corcovado
My words in comparison felt like roasted mud cracking in the sun.
Gang Gang
I am Buddha, without desire. But if they want to hang, will even the Buddha say no?
Stellar Jay
The people were looking askance at the wind
Palingenesis
on the platform / he stands to be / reckoned with
Ryan Texts Me
Not as in the vowels. /
I don’t think they know about those.
i dot my eyes with stars
at home the phone rings but never for me.
Hospital Beds
I teach my son to dance
I’m Sorry for Your Loss
I busy myself at the buffet table, straightening dishes of soggy pasta salad and toothpick-skewered salami cubes.
Ten Easy Steps to Creating Your Own Religion, Being Your Own God, and Staying a Step Ahead of AI
ChatGPT will write these steps anyway.
Mike
Maybe that’s why Tim invites Mike to his concert off the coast of Spain.
Cannon-Shot Dog
by Noah Powers
Man, let me tell you,
they shot that motherfucker
straight out of a cannon.
Packed that sumbitch
with a fresh load of powder.
Lit the wick like a Yankee Candle.
Sent his tiny ass through a cloud!
Left a tiny dog-shaped hole
in that cloud. Look at
self-portrait as your local hot girl's Instagram DMs
(cw: adult content, crass verbatim)
Ask Me Something
"I think I ruined the end of the world," he said.
An Exercise in Meandering
I taught your favourite dance move to the furniture-
BLOSSOM
“I’m just here for a sage stick.”
A Year of Pussy Hats, Protests and Isolation
My dad said that in order to be a respectable woman...
Rookie of the Year 2: The Golden Leg
He winds up, foot connecting with a tin can, sails it clear out of the park.
Eating The Kate Sandwich at Something About Her
There’s something about a messy, vegetarian
sandwich...
Distraction
I felt a crinkle in my jacket pocket, pulled out a parking garage receipt from November.
Dormitory
I don’t want to blossom.
The AUDACITY of The Young
We were scrawny kids breaking curfews like twigs
Magic 8
1. Am I a good person?
To the Wendy’s Cashier Whose Husband Is Dying
CW: Death / Illness
When a man considers himself a freak, how does the world perceive him?
Have you ever stared at a spoon?
A Perfectly Normal Hotel
You might not believe me, but I swear every word of my story is true.
How to Get Rid of Bedbugs: Stages of Grief
Seal any small hiding areas. Use silicon caulk to seal cracks and crevices.
Jerry & Company
A tattoo artist longs to be known for their work.
Barcelona
In memory of Stephen Sondheim.
Quadruple Sonnet To My AWP Lit Crush
The secret to having a fun life is choosing someone to have a little crush on everywhere you go - Twitter account @Kenzianidiot
Gaming All By Yourself, Handsome?
So I am determined to find love in Wizard101.
Sewer City
What that means: the man and woman are able to scream.
IN MY NEXT LIFE, I WANT TO BE A PRAYING MANTIS
Simply thin as paper and half the weight
Andy and the Graying Beards
No, you’ve got to be kidding me!
This Town Ain’t Big
In my new town my bones and skin seemed to expand.
Words With Friends
I can purchase words by category: The Human Body, Sexology, Expressions.
endlings
there is softness hidden somewhere in the spaces between ribs but it never finds the fortitude to swallow my body and brain alike
The Untold Roar
He assigned the cat no name.
Mama's Round Dosas
"That's how his mother used to make it"
The Silver Solution
The TWF solution to increased fiscal burdens on worldwide economies due to the earth’s inhabitants life span ascension was trifold.