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In an illustration, a person in a boat is dwarfed by an enormous iceberg. A face can be seen as the iceberg cracks apart

Fiction / January/February 2025

Pack Ice Season

January 31, 2025January 30, 2025 - by Bridget Canning

Once she’s close up, everything might change

An illustrated portrait of Brontez Purnell, largely in brown, black, yellow, and bronze

Books

Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time

January 24, 2025January 23, 2025 - by Connor Garel

Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust

An illustration of an apartment with green cupboards and brown counters. A mouse looks over the edge of a sink.

Fiction / November 2024

Extermination

December 13, 2024January 28, 2025 - by Sue Murtagh

Even if you don’t see them or hear them, there are always others—somewhere in your home

Dog hiding in a desk, with yellow stuff on his mouth

Fiction / July/August 2014 / November 2023

Care and Feeding of the Amish

October 19, 2023November 1, 2023 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

They had snuck from their tents this fine morning, before the spring dew dried on the grass, and come back with their prize

A man and woman walk down an empty street with houses on either side and the ocean behind them

Fiction / July/August 2022

The Click

August 5, 2022 - by Sarah Totton

Sometimes we look younger than we are, sometimes much older, depending on how we’ve chosen to live with what we’ve seen

A man bikes past the brick facade of Toronto's Massey Hall building

Fiction / July/August 2022

Saving Robert Zimmerman

August 5, 2022August 15, 2022 - by Jay Teitel

They saved Bob Dylan. I know, because I was there

Deep red flag flag on flagpoles with yellow stars in front of a cloudy pastel sky

Fiction / September/October 2022

The Gate of Heavenly Peace

July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 - by Yan Xi Li

I hoped my aunt had found peace, even if the revolution hadn’t

Two men, one white and one Black, sit on a couch watching a basketball game on TV

Fiction / July/August 2022

Bro

July 11, 2022July 13, 2022 - by Ian Williams

When he tried to visualize the kind of Black friend he wanted, he could come up with only minor variations of Bro

An illustration of a pink pillow and many bees.

Fiction / June 2022

The Beekeeper

May 25, 2022June 9, 2022 - by Nola Poirier

I don’t know how much longer I can stay locked inside with Mother’s prying oyster eyes and the maddening drone of my father’s beehive

A woman reads a book with a skull and crossbones on it unaware of a giant creature preparing to eat her just behind her.

Books

Horror, Horror Everywhere: New Books Are Shaking the Genre to Its Core

May 19, 2022October 28, 2022 - by Danny Jacobs

Writers are taking spooky books to places they’ve never gone before

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