Someone Who Watches

July 23, 2026June 30, 2026 the.amazineLeave a comment

by Foster Trecost

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It was my first day.

Awkward introductions. Handshakes held a second too long. Then parked in a cubicle. The computer insisted on my attention, but the desk drawers won that battle. I pulled open the top. Empty, except for a few paperclips. Nothing in the next. The bottom bin, larger than the first two, contained only a coiled ethernet cable. I moved to close it, but stopped. Something more. Beneath the cable, a folded note. Hard-pressed pencil. Block letters.

A Book Review (The Problem with Plastic)

July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 the.amazineLeave a comment

by Maria Fitzgerald

Comic book review of The Problem With Plastic by Maria Fitzgerald

The Angels are Bowling

July 9, 2026June 29, 2026 the.amazine1 Comment

by Emma Williquette

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EXHIBIT A: GREAT-GRANDMA ON DAD’S MOM’S SIDE.

Indianapolis, Indiana. Sometime in 2007.

I only remember the day in photographic bursts now at twenty-one. Mom was putting my hair half-up in a little ribbon as she always did. After that, I was in someone’s arms going somewhere. Suddenly I had shoes on. Wanted them off. Couldn’t take them off. Lastly, the backseat of the car, left side, on a purple floral booster seat.

The Topic

July 2, 2026June 29, 2026 the.amazineLeave a comment

by Jeffrey Zable

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Of course we’re all in different stages of dying,

but it seems that those who are closest to it

are mostly the ones talking about it.

Just One Different Thing

June 25, 2026June 1, 2026 the.amazineLeave a comment

by Randall Amster

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I awaken every day knowing that one thing will be different—one item out of place, one song lyric changed, one person here or not, one event remembered differently by others, one part of myself altered in a way that only I would notice. I’ve named this experience temporal arrhythmia because it sounds cool and smart and sciency, but I have no idea what it all really means in any tangible sense.