It’s the first time Camille sees his bone collection. She prowls the edge of Simon’s bookcase, brushing her fingers along the specimens on the shelves. The softly lit bones remind her of seashells, smooth and white, silky under her touch. Small animal skulls with teeth sharp enough to pierce skin; a larger one with twisting … Continue reading The Bones And Their Girl by Sylvia Heike
I’m swimming through the void, a great winged whale fortified against the cosmic deep, when the message comes, relayed from an orbiter I long thought defunct. I pause a parsec, unsure whether or not I should interpret it. Stars pass me by like raindrops on a car window; a metaphor that feels so alien now, … Continue reading Goldengrove Unleaving by Dafydd McKimm
Some Stuff This story is probably about you. It’s not the one where I’m the girlfriend. It’s the one where I wish I were the girlfriend. I lived beneath street level, windows with prison bars. I was like a stale sandwich wrapped in a bandana. I was carrying a too-heavy load of Biblical knowledge. I … Continue reading He Thinks He Knows Me by Rich Ives
I am running. Get ready. This is where the timeline splits. My hair beats about my face and the moon shines down and if this were a movie, there would be the silhouette of a wolf, howling at the moon. Instead, there are only coyotes, slunk low to the ground. In some of these stories, … Continue reading Timelines by L’Erin Ogle
Ani King is the Editor in Chief and founder of Syntax & Salt Magazine. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Strange Horizons, Penny Magazine, and Every Day Fiction. You can find her at thebittenlip.com and on Twitter. I Give it Six Months originally appeared in Jersey Devil Press, May 2016. Thing is, you … Continue reading I Give it Six Months by Ani King
Chelsea Hanna Cohen lives in Brooklyn, works in publishing, and plays piano when she isn’t writing. She is an alumna of the 2018 Tin House Summer Workshop and is the managing editor of Syntax & Salt. Her work has been previously been published or is forthcoming in Split Lip Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, and freeze … Continue reading The Girl with the Butterfly Hands by Chelsea Hanna Cohen
Jennifer Todhunter’s stories have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, CHEAP POP, and elsewhere. She was named to Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2018, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Pidgeonholes. Find her at www.foxbane.ca or @JenTod_. i am a haenyeo i am a haenyeo was originally published by Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry in September 2015 i am a mother An … Continue reading Three Flash Stories by Jennifer Todhunter
Georgene Smith Goodin’s work has appeared in numerous publications, and has won the Mash Stories flash fiction competition. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the cartoonist Robert Goodin, their four foster children and two dogs. When not writing, she is restoring a 1909 Craftsman bungalow with obsessive attention to historic detail. You can find Georgene … Continue reading Ghost Hunting by Georgene Smith Goodin
Gray has completed two poetry collections, Contested Terrain, FutureCycle Press, 2017 and Overwatch, published by Grey Sparrow Press, 2011. His work has appeared in The Sewanee Review, Appalachian Heritage, Rattle: Poets Respond, Syntax & Salt, The Good Men Project, Still, and War, Literature and the Arts among many other journals. Gray holds an MFA from The Sewanee School of Letters and … Continue reading Theseus in Baghdad by D.A. Gray
Gemma Mahadeo (she/they) is a Melbourne-based, London-born writer and occasional musician whose poetry and non-fiction has appeared in online and print journals throughout Australia. Gemma blogs drink & zine reviews on eat, drink, stagger and edits reviews for Melbourne Spoken Word when not writing poetry or reviewing books, or reading submissions for Syntax & Salt and can be found online … Continue reading Two Pieces by Gemma Mahadeo