Issue: NiftyLit #10

Brittany Ackerman

"How many labors until I can untangle these invisible threads of pain I cling to? I wish I wasn’t tied to them. I wish I could rid myself of this ordeal, find the road back, seize an elixir, be cast among the stars, no longer a burden but a shimmering glow above."

Nick Gregorio

"A follow-up to Hellfire Girl’s last text never came. It was a relatively quiet night crime-wise. And there was only so much static and police code one person could listen to in a single evening. So Doom Boy fired up the Doom Mobile and began heading toward home."

Shannon Frost Greenstein

"in Heaven I could forget how I drink Diet Coke to fill my stomach, to quiet / my ravenous hunger, to fill the hole in my core I am still too broken to fill with food."

Shannon Frost Greenstein

"what do spiders dream about/succulent flies/the perfect web/early-morning summer breezes drifting over an exoskeleton dotted with dew"

Ava Hedouf

Step 1: Gather your ingredients This is the way my story starts. Not at 1pm on a Saturday afternoon, fetal,…