River Styx Magazine

A new short story by Parastoo Geranmayeh

The Last Thursday of the Century

"One armed man began kicking the handcuffed young men. Another in body armor smiled as he directed people to their homes. At dawn, from that backyard, they heard the sound...

The Last Thursday of the Century

September 05, 2023 By Parastoo Geranmayeh

"One armed man began kicking the handcuffed young men. Another in body armor smiled as he directed people to their homes. At dawn, from that backyard, they heard the sound...

August 28, 2023 By Brandon Hobson

Because serious art is where complex and difficult questions are made human and uncomfortable in a time when most people don't like to feel uncomfortable, I can only say that...

August 22, 2023 By Gregory Brown

"His son had gone into the sea as a boy and then gone into the ground as ashes and now his name barely seemed left in the world. How could...

August 18, 2023 By Lise Balk King

Before I left NYC to live in western South Dakota I did not know how much I did not know—that prairie grass undulates and shines like ocean waves in the...

August 18, 2023 By Darien Gee

J. Gee (1913-1975) In my family, there was a woman who knew how to fly. She had been pushed by a man, or perhaps the man’s wife, or perhaps the...

August 18, 2023 By Claire Walla

Every year on my birthday, my mom tells my birth story...

August 16, 2023 By c3 Crew

When I walk up, Zeke-the-Dog is already in the car. They're taking him in. Gently put: helping him die. Gently put: killing him with less pain. On the radio, the...

August 16, 2023 By Katy Chrisler

Rebreaking a Bone Before means chronology has logic;means outpaced prior-faced enmity -lacking of punch, drunkless. Dressed less. My prologue, I harken. Has teethmade of cartilage. No, bones. Side flesh. What...

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