Fiction

The magazine is geared toward gritty urban fiction, crime and mystery fiction, and satire.

The Domino Room

Featured, Fiction

By Richie Narvaez / Osvaldo Ortiz, at twenty-six, late because he didn’t have a car, asked if this was the line waiting to clock in at...

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The Other Quiet American

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By Gabriel Valjan / It is late, and two men in dark suits in a sedan drive up to the pillbox in front of a gate. The two guards there ask...

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Liber ‘LXIII – A Vautrin Series Re-Mythologizing the JFK Assassination

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Episode 1 posted January 21, 2023 Episode 2 posted February 26, 2023 Episode 3 posted March 26, 2023 Episode 4 posted April 30, 2023...

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Walker on Rue Saint-Denis, an Excerpt from “Love and Bullets,” By Nick Kolakowski

Fiction

Walker spent a few days in a trailer-park motel on the rim of Hudson Bay, seventy loonies a week for a double-wide at the very edge of the...

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“Sally Jiggs,” An Excerpt from The Boy from County Hell, By Thomas Pluck

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Mosca’s was a white house with a pitched roof and a sign so small Jay blew past and had to double back, parking the Mustang facing the...

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Vandegrift’s Fortune

Fiction, Trending

Once Upon a Time in a Parking Lot...

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A Girl’s Guide to the Dark Arts

Editor's Picks, Fiction, Trending

Is it not written on the sandals of the prostitute—follow me? —Austin Osman Spare...

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