Recommended Reading From Online Literary Magazines

Did you miss me? I was with Benjamin, see, and Foucault, Fannon, Bhabba, Crane, Hinojosa, and Trumbo, and together we spent our evenings uncovering privilege, panopticons, and simulacras. I reveled in these until my skin went from brown to green and I realized I could drop the mask and dance the mambo good. Now I shuffle for the masses until they forget about skin and focus on my kickass Dancing-With-the-Stars moves.

Watch out for my pirouette, now. Might just be good enough to make the whole world dance.

– And then she grasps with an unpleasant jolt of consciousness like licking the posts of a nine-volt battery, which she did once on a whim when she was ten, that she has never pushed herself to do anything, not a single solitary goddamn thing. – Jess Glass in Requited

– He no longer resembled her lover. The room, with the shades drawn, appeared to be cast out of the depths of Dante’s hell and the walls breathed a combination of flesh and metal like a living Giger painting. The floor moved like liquid lava. – Alec Bryan in PANK

– Aaron’s mother’s voice is demanding, too loud. It pricks at Ann’s eardrums, making her want to dig them out with a sharpened spork. And is she really asking her this? Too hot heat creeps up her neck and across her cheeks. Margie apparently wants to know if Ann’s screwing her son regularly. – Nicole Wolverton in Black Heart Magazine

– But, no, I’m not too religious though I do have a beautiful plastic replica of the Virgin of Guadalupe standing about four feet high in my backyard by my fig tree and to the left of my enclosed Jacuzzi. No Mexican can get through life without the Virgin even if he’s an atheist, agnostic or a born again Buddhist. La Virgen. Dark like los indios of Mexico. – Daniel Olivas in La Bloga

– It is 00.51 and I have kept the light on. It is 00.51 and I have kept the light on and I feel sick because I have eaten too much. – J.D.A. Winslow in Fleeting