After he kisses me, Frank rubs his lipstick from my mouth with a Handi Wipe. He looks at me from between false eyelashes thick as…
We’re both seventeen and white trash. Horse crazy and rough around the edges. My family is wonderful but I’m a mess. Her family is a…
The cotton candy fiberglass in the walls blew everywhere when dad sledgehammered loose the copper pipes in the trailer for liquor money, motes drifting like…
At the Queens Zoo, the boy leans against exhibit glass. Inside, elephants: their tusks adzed and planed, the color of snow at Croton- on-Hudson, their…
Vampire eyes, she said. This photograph of you has no pupils, and mine are dilated from sleep. Your friend took it over breakfast, across our…
In full sun ginger will roll up: crinkles might be the word for leaf movement. Everything around it curled & hot—. What I’m saying is…
There used to be a tree, a giant red oak arching over the court- yard outside our apartment. In May, when the city came to…
VOLUME 9 NUMBER 2 Reem Abu-Baker, Allison Adair, Ryka Aoki, Bree Barton, Chelsea Margaret Bodnar, Trystan Carter, Sossity Chiricuzio, Nate Depke, Chris Emslie, Ryan Griffith,…
This issue of NANO Fiction has it all. We start with Stephanie Devine’s “Of Felling,” winner of the 2015 NANO Prize, selected by the wonderful…