Nonfiction

What’s In A Taken, Ass-Kicked Name?

by Amanda LaPergola

“Naturally, it follows that since I have kicked no ass in my life I have never enjoyed the privilege that comes with it: taking names.”
Don’t Jump Off This Thing, You Don’t Have Wings

by R.B. Moreno

For about 15 million in today’s dollars, men erected a breathtaking, thousand-ton span of steel longer than the Gorge is deep, held aloft by galvanized wires capable of supporting loads equal to the bridge’s weight. Half a century later, after the first BASE (Buildings, Antennas, Spans, Earth) jumps from towers of rock in California’s Yosemite National Park had begun to lose their novelty, the minds of a peculiar new breed of parachutist began to fixate on Cañon City...”
Entropy

by Michelle Filippini

“When I get down there, I find my parents in their master bathroom. My mother is trying to coax my father out of the bathroom back into bed. The smell of fear and urine are in the air and it’s hard to breathe. My mother says, “Look, Michelle is here,” and I can see my father trying to get his mind around what that means.”