Fiction The Passenger Jane Flett "By the time the train skips East Broadway and hurtles under the East River towards Brooklyn, uneasiness is beginning to catch beneath the exasperation, a low burbling panic like the sound of scuba tanks exhaling..."
Fiction Animal Husbandry Jeff Fleischer “Nothing about it’s right,” Herm Dublin said, smiling at his friends while still regarding the animal in his arms with a sense of horror.
Fiction The Absence Of Cows Kristen Falso-Capaldi "I don't know Jeremy Mitchell or his wife, and I couldn't possibly comment on the existential angst of cows. I look at Jeremy's face and try to conjure the snapshot of him as a skinny thirteen-year-old, fumbling for my lips in the dark, but missing and catching the side of my mouth instead."
Fiction Swansong for Trump Marleen S. Barr "Hitchcock knew that birds have power. As a bona fide fairy god mother, I fraternize with fantastic creatures—such as fire-breathing trumpeter swans."
Fiction The Lawn Fairy War James van Pelt "Figures hid everywhere behind the boulders, invisible from the street: scorpions, spiders, a weird half-bear half-man the size of a puppy, trolls, and by the porch, a pair of pale stone lions. Ashley had even painted the sidewalk black."
Fiction Big Feet Leslie What "Though he empathizes with her predicament, it's a struggle not to laugh at this pretty red monster beside him, at how she's clad those humongous dogs in ridiculous Satan high heels."
