By: Hamsini Shivakumar

Somehow, it doesn’t feel right to wear them.

By: Chris Arning

Its abrasiveness (or what you might call asperity) is perfectly calibrated.

By: PROJECT:OBJECT

Objects of significance to consulting semioticians worldwide…

By: Charles Baxter

“This meteorite is priceless.”

By: Joe Wenderoth

Those in disagreement must find someone to stand Birdman for them.

By: Margot Livesey

“I want to count your fillings and lick your vvertebrae.”

By: Stacey Levine

I had a great pain to mitigate.

By: Toni Schlesinger

“You know, the candy heart that reads 4 U but without the U. What is it?”

By: Todd Pruzan

The senator screams at an octave nobody realized he could reach.

By: Miranda Mellis

Why the plastic sandwich, the rubber carrot and the brass apple?

By: Kevin Brockmeier

“Nothing about you is ordinary. Not to me.”

By: Jenny Hayes

The big one could jump higher, but the small one was the prettiest.

By: Dan Chaon

A prodding of synapse that hasn’t been awake for years.

By: Myla Goldberg

Say what you long to say.

By: Adam Davies

Some slight damage, consistent with the violence of the wreckage.