Stories and Interviews from our amazing contributors:
2023 CONTRIBUTORS:
Merklee, Bill: Grand Canyon, 1967; 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
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