Rowena, by Sean Moreland
When I was a small child, my father gave me a beautiful bird, with bright jade feathers, an ember-orange beak. I adored the bird, kept its gilded cage beside my … Continue reading
Issue 2 Table of Contents
Here’s the full Table of Contents for our second issue, which drops on May 13. This one features five tales that each has something to say about the body. In … Continue reading
Quests and Institutions
As we settle into the swing of things at Lackington’s, our modus op adjusts for a better fit. Some might call these adjustments growing pains, except they haven’t been at … Continue reading
A Long Foreword with a Long Title to Introduce Our Fond New Venture
A story must start with a bang. A character must have an arc. A tale must show more than a slice of life. These Grade 10 English “musts” for short-story writing … Continue reading
Their Dead So Near, by Kate Heartfield
Deep under the hot grass, the panting dogs, the flower beds, the grasping willows, the bottle caps and condoms, the grit, rubble and pipes, the starveling city earthworms, under the … Continue reading
Mon pays c’est l’hiver, by Amal El-Mohtar
In a land of noon-darkness and damp, of mornings that sway between syrup-bright and pigeon-grey and evenings of thick velvet, a traveller feels a tug at the hook in her … Continue reading
An Orange Tree Framed Your Body, by Alex Dally MacFarlane
the boy and the road talk youth I’m sitting on the side of a dusty road, thinking of oranges. Thinking of my father and of death—his and mine. The Emperor’s … Continue reading
Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta, by Helen Marshall
Carissa first sees Death at the Panhellenic Graffiti mixer where he is circled by the guys from Sigma Rho. They can’t seem to help crowding him even though they clearly … Continue reading
LACKINGTON'S 
The Hemingway/Wilde Fallacy
When I taught English, there was only one Rule of Literature I wanted undergrads to take away from my classes: different readers want different things, and different writers want to … Continue reading →