Stories and Interviews from our amazing contributors:

2023 CONTRIBUTORS:

Altamura, Mauro: Breathing Quietly, Two Questions

Anastasiadou, Mileva: Evan Dando is Haunting Me, But This is More Than a Ghost Story; Two Questions

Cassani Davis, Lauren: Teenagers, Two Questions

Dobbie, Sara: Lady Blake, Two Questions

Drake, Marjorie: Skin Hunger, Two Questions

Field, Rebecca: Parallel Blouse, Two Questions

Jewell, Phebe: Squint, Two Questions

Kandikuppa, Anu: Underneath It All, Two Questions

Klein, Frances: At the Writer’s Workshop, Two Questions

Marcusa, Andrea: U.S. Threat Forecast, Two Questions

Merklee, Bill: Grand Canyon, 1967; Two Questions

Myers, Abigail: First Time at Waffle House, as a Hurricane Approaches; Two Questions

Nadjarian, Nora: The Kuleshov Effect; Two Questions

Vorreyer, Donna: Silence is Golden or Maybe a Weapon, Two Questions

Weller, Tom: Hunger, Two Questions

2022 CONTRIBUTORS:

Alletson, Lisa: Perfect, Two Questions

Aronoff, Mikki: Truck Stop Tattoo, Two Questions

Bellas, Georgia: The Dollhouse Detective, Two Questions

Biller, Lindy: The Grandmothers, Two Questions

Brownlee, Melissa Llanes: Kona Boy Made Good, Two Questions

Card, Taylor: Stochastic Prompt No. 9: (n) Sci-Fi Worlds; Two Questions

Cavero, Jessica: Two Arms, Two Questions

Cowles, Lynda: The Magician’s Assistant, Two Questions

Craig, Tim: Parts of My Mother, Two Questions

Crawley, Dan: Bull, Two Questions

Dickey, Paul: The Serial Killer Confesses to His Daughter

Enesi, Mustapha: at your mother’s funeral, Two Questions

Fish, Kathy: A Solid Contribution, Two Questions

Fitzpatrick Melissa: Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board; Two Questions

Freligh, Sarah: A Brief Natural History of the Girls in the Office, Two Questions

Gordon, Taylor: The Devil’s Wife, Two Questions

Grejuc, Alex: The Sky’s the Limit, Two Questions

Grimm, Mary: Live and Let Die, Two Questions

Hahn, Beth: I Made a Hologram, Two Questions

Kaur, Harsimran: 2011 blue Subaru speeding to the end of the world, Two Questions

Kulpa, Kathryn: Little Runaway, Two Questions

Lecocq, Felix: Wedding Video, Two Questions

Lodge, Kik: Rock, Two Questions

Moulton, Beth: There’s Something About the Night

Niehoff, Linda: Underneath Cathedral Bells, Two Questions

Nielson, K.A.: Let me bake you a circus, my love; Two Questions

O’Cleary, Rachel: The Invisible Woman, Two Questions

Palumbo, Rina: Cigarette Tag, Two Questions

Pembroke, Anna: Lovely Boys, Two Questions

Povanda, Jared: Season Finale Cliffhanger, Two Questions

Rhudy, Ellen: We Are Not a Ghost Story, Two Questions

Sambol Brody, Lori: Made in Her Image, Two Questions

Shah, Parth: Customary, Two Questions

Stickle, Chelsea: Fire Is an Open Mouth with an Empty Stomach, Two Questions

Stuart, Todd Clay: Pre-Ghosting, Two Questions

Tending, Christy: Not Legal Advice, Two Questions

Tessler, Emma: Coat Rack Elegy, Two Questions

Thompson, Paul: How to Find a Prehistoric Ghost, Two Questions

Tomarchio, Eileen Frankel: Origin of a Face, Two Questions

Tryon, Eric Scot: We Worry for Cats, Two Questions

Tsay, Lillian: When the Photographer Falls, Two Questions

Ugochukwu, Dilinna: An Injured Brown Towhee, Two Questions

Wagner, Nora Esme: Why Renaissance Artists Never Got the Babies Right, Two Questions

Xiang, Senna: Footnotes on Not Being Your Foreigner, Two Questions

Yu, April: To Saturn and Back, Two Questions

2021 CONTRIBUTORS:

Amado, Laila: Advanced Math for the Sleepless, Two Questions

Bedell, Jack B.: Swamp Thing Watches a Whale Make a Life Decision, Two Questions

Berwick, Carly: In this story someone, Two Questions

Bidar, Patricia Q.: Before the Election, Two Questions

Brownlee, Melissa Llanes: Avon Calling You an Autumn When You Know You Are Summer, Two Questions

Brownlow, Exodus Oktavia: The Terrible Darling, Two Questions

Cardew, Jonathan: Baba Yaga, Two Questions

Chadwick, Leigh: In the Field of Everything I Never Told You

Clayville, Sarah R.: Blank Page, Two Questions

DePasquale, Katie: Scheherazade Tells the Tale of the Northern Shrike, Two Questions

Fincke, Gary: Sleep DIet: A Fable, Two Questions

Freligh, Sarah: All We Wanted, Two Questions

Gavin, Caroljean: Once Tasted, Two Questions

Guo, Joy: Heart/Beat/Run, Two Questions

Harris, L Mari: Girl as Music Box Ballerina, Two Questions

Hartsuyker, Candace: At the Sixth Grade Picnic, We Are the Last Girls Standing; Two Questions

Hawkes, Audrey: A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Bloody Mary, Two Questions

Heckman, Derek: Hibernation, Two Questions

Hutson, Ashley: How to Become Fictional, Two Questions

Ioannou, Maria A.: This could be a story about people, Two Questions

Iuppa, M.J.: White Noise, Two Questions

Jewell, Phebe: Fence Jumpers, Two Questions

Kerr Brown, Audra: The Men Here, Two Questions

Klash, Veronica: I Think I Love the Small Woman Who Lives in My Hair, Two Questions

Klein, Annika Barranti: Anaphora (Ten Ways to Greet a Time Traveler), Two Questions

Lei, Stella: Space-Time, Two Questions

Lovett Allen, Jessie: Sports Moms at the End of the World, Two Questions

Magowan, Kim: Performance Review, Two Questions

Manusos, Lyndsie: The Following, Two Questions

Matthews, Alexandra M.: The Balloon Retriever, Two Questions

McCafferty, Rachel Abbey: Setting: Everywhere and nowhere, all at once; Two Questions

Melling, L.P.: The Caretaker’s Confession, Two Questions

Moulton, Beth: Blasted, Two Questions

Nakaji Monnier, Mia: Minerals, Two Questions

Pan, Christina: Dead Writer’s Desk, Two Questions

Perilli, Nick: Our Dog Most Recently, Two Questions

Saggerer, Melissa: Gulls fly fastest when they’re diving, Two Questions

Stuart, Todd Clay: Nebraska, Two Questions

Thompson, Paul: Group Hug, Two Questions

Varallo, Anthony: Cruise, Two Questions

Weller, Tom: Bottles, Two Questions

Wood, Didi: The Child Catcher in Retirement, Two Questions

Yang, Yunya: The Warrior, Two Questions

Yu, Stephanie: Fruit Salad, Two Questions

Zhang, Lucy: I will relax in the next life, Two Questions

2020 CONTRIBUTORS:

Anastasiadou, Mileva: Mirror, Mirror; Two Questions

Balagopal, Sudha: Peacock Feathers, Two Questions

Brownlee, Melissa Llanes: To Ever Love One Girl, Two Questions

Cajandig-Taylor, Hannah: When We Left Earth, the Whales Came With Us; Two Questions

Çizakça, Defne: The Deceased with Red Skin, Two Questions

Covo, Noa: Amelia, Two Questions

Dean, Tommy: Conjuring Distant Planets

Evans, Alex: Saint Egg, Two Questions

Finn Johnson, Michele: Hunger, Thirst, Listen; Two Questions

Forlini, Quinn: Catalog of Small Things, Two Questions

Freligh, Sarah: What We Remember, Two Questions

Genise, Steven: An Abridged List of Small Gratitudes Heading into Month Five, Two Questions

Hanley, Madeline: Sometime in the Middle of a Long Summer, Two Questions

Harrison, Rebecca: Granny and the Butterflies

Heckman, Derek: Revelations, Two Questions

Hicks, Sabrina: My Drugstore Queen, Two Questions

Iuppa, MJ: Nearly, Magnolia; Two Questions

Julian, Jen: Small Predators, Two Questions

Kapp, Christina: Making Fire, Two Questions

Karinen, Tayler: Frank Sinatra didn’t know what he was asking for, Two Questions

Kingery, Olivia: Alice takes herself on a date, Two Questions

Kulpa, Kathryn: After Wings of Desire, Two Questions; Road Runners, Two Questions

Margariti, Avra: The Clown King, Two Questions

Matteson, R.A.: Galatea, Two Questions

McCloud, Amanda: Things We Say in the Dark, Two Questions

McClure, Shawn: To My Sister, Who Threatened to Haunt Me; Two Questions

Milam, Kathryn: Change Is Coming, Two Questions

Ohm, Hun: Last Tree Standing, Two Questions

Oliver, Carolyn: The Patron Saint of Fury, Two Questions

Patel, Rudri: The Day Her Husband Died, Two Questions

Patterson, Lee: “an essay about ghosts”

Perilli, Nick: An Ending, Two Questions

Pokrass, Meg: Maternal, Two Questions

Priscus, Sarah: Mary-Anne Shoemaker, Two Questions

Rhudy, Ellen: POW, POW; Two Questions

Saggerer, Melissa: Begin with an Ice Cream Cone, Two Questions

Sambol Brody, Lori: All the Stars, Two Questions

Sherwood, T.L.: The Thinnest of Veneers, Two Questions

Smart, Rachael: Ways With Water, Two Questions

Taiga, Xenia: And the Clouds Never Stopped Coming, Two Questions

Weller, Tom: Rangers, Two Questions

White, Rick: Eric the Astronomer, Two Questions

Withers, Jo: Yesterday’s Tide, Two Questions; Medusa’s Bridesmaids, Two Questions

Witte, Francine: Cab Ride, Two Questions

Zach, Maria: Searching for a Stomach, Two Questions

2019 CONTRIBUTORS:

Anderson, E. Kristin: Ted Cruz Injures His Hand at a Party at the Governor’s Mansion, Two Questions

Archer, Jules: Contents of a Letter Found On a Stained Bar Napkin, Two Questions

Auder, C.B.: In the Dream Version, There are Baby Goats, Two Questions

Boudreau, Timothy: Grandma Told Us Her Happiest Day Was When They Bought the Satellite Dish, Two Questions

Bradley, J.: I-65, Two Questions

Calabria, Erin: Seedling, Two Questions

Carle, K.B.: Dandelion, Two Questions

Chin, Michael: When She Was Bad, Two Questions

Clark, Chloe N.: Other Skins, Two Questions

Clarke, Camille: Apple and Sunny, Two Questions

Dasgupta, Shome: Upon A Sunny Day at Noon, Pancakes and Light, Two Questions

Desar, Leonora: Woods, Two Questions

Finegan, Kate: Going, All Along; Two Questions

Fliss, Jennifer: Mirror, ca. 1550-1350 B.C.; Two Questions

Foran, Pat: The Truth About Florence Henderson’s Floating Notes, Two Questions

Fried, Jenny: My Little Cinder, Two Questions

Fuhrer, Erik: Spider Plant, Two Questions

Gordon, Hannah: Something Hungry and Bloody-Jawed, Two Questions

Ha, Anna Gates: Sky and/or Body, Unzipped, Two Questions

Harris, L Mari: Mona and Maribel, Two Questions

Hoffmann, Marissa: Bodily Fluids, Two Questions

Iuppa, MJ: She Can’t Settle Down, Two Questions

Kowalski, Shane: Five Million Beethovens, Two Questions

Kulpa, Kathryn: Warsaw Circus, Two Questions

Matthews, Liz: Time Machine, Two Questions

Moulton, Beth: Tongue Tied, Two Questions

Mundell, Lynn: Our Bright Lights On, Two Questions

Niespodziany, Ben: Moose Hunt, Two Questions

Norris, Eilise: Even with glue, Two Questions

Orchard, Rebecca: Please Employ My Ghost Boyfriend, Two Questions

Pokrass, Meg: The Rescue, Two Questions

Rafferty, Charles: Six Fingers, Two Questions

Rhudy, Ellen: A Writer’s Guide to Fairy Tales, Two Questions

Ristine, Barb: The Boys of Summer: A Playlist, Two Questions

Robison, Becky: Apple Crisp as Symptom, Two Questions

Ross, Michelle: Deposition, Two Questions

Shackelford, Martin: Some Through the Waters

Shoen, Kayleigh: Things I’m Holding (for You), Two Questions

Slack, Amy: Ways of Making History, Two Questions

Strother, Sutton: Palimpsest, Two Questions

Tenor, Kristin: I Am the Chrysalis Waiting for You to Break Free, Two Questions

Torenberg, Lior: Je Dévore, Two Questions

VandeZande, Zach: Dad, Two Questions

Velentza, Clio: Anatomical Venus Girl, Two Questions

Witte, Francine: Midnight on the Moon, Two Questions

Wride, Liz: Painted, Two Questions