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MERIWETHER
The crunch of the frozen soil underneath as I sink into the earth, my femur mashing against my joints. I lean into the ball of my foot, until I feel the capillaries of the petal disintegrate, the cells holding onto one another minced into pulp. The petal there to mock me of my hope, fear, vanity. A forbidden dream.2020 — CHEAP POP
THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT — BILL GILLARD. OCTOBER. THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. SHE PROBABLY DIDN’T MEAN IT — DANA LIEBELSON. MYSTIC HUSTLER — ERIKA VEURINK. GLENDALE — GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR — MELISSA BOWERS. COUP DE FOUDRE — KATHERINE GLEASON. FOCUS — TJ FULLER.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
About — CHEAP POP. ** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 **. CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop —stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you. Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda— pop —and2021 — CHEAP POP
2021 — CHEAP POP. JANUARY. INHERITANCE — K-MING CHANG. INFINITY ARROW — SAM MARTONE. RED CORDUROY COAT — AMBER RAY GARCIA. GIRLS IN SPACE BE WARY — MEGHAN PHILLIPS. POO ON YOU — KIM MAGOWAN. THE MAGIC OF SPICES — SUDHA BALAGOPAL. FEBRUARY. SUBMIT — CHEAP POP GUIDELINES. 1. We're looking for your best work in 500 words or less—please, nothing greater than that.. 2. We don't differentiate between Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and anything in-between, nor do we have restrictions on genre—if it pops, it pops!What we want to see is good writing, your best writing, and that's it.Please note: CHEAP POP does not publish poetry, so please do not send it.2019 — CHEAP POP
MARCH 2019. PLASTIC ANIMAL HANDBOOK — EVAN NICHOLLS. HELL — JENNIFER WORTMAN. CORNHOLE, BAGS — JOHN JODZIO. SKIM — ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN. A PATIENT ACT OF LOVE — JARED POVANDA. GOOD GUYS — KATE FINEGAN. CADAVER —MATT BRODERICK. LATE BABIES — MARVINSHACKELFORD.
AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2017. Best of the Net nominations. Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies". Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree". Pushcart Prize nominations. April Bradley — "Little Wake". Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes". Annie Frazier — "Slather". Jeremy John Parker —"Spectrum".
2017 — CHEAP POP
New stories every Tuesday and Thursday.Have a question for us? Email us at CheapPopLit gmail com.Let's do this. ON THE EDGE OF THE NEW WORLD ON THE EDGE OF THE NEW WORLD — PAUL CRENSHAW. June 09, 2015. / Robert James Russell. When they got back to the house he spread the peanut butter on the bread and scooped out a dead lump of grape jelly and spread the jelly and cleaned the knife, then cut the crusts carefully while she watched, her brown hair, so like her mother’s,framing
CONTEST (2015)
In addition, author Phillip Sterling will be our judge! Submission Period: August 1 – September 30, 2015. Announcement of Winners: Friday, October 30, 2015. Prizes: $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place. The three award winners, along with three honorable mention entries, will be published with CHEAP POP. CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
The crunch of the frozen soil underneath as I sink into the earth, my femur mashing against my joints. I lean into the ball of my foot, until I feel the capillaries of the petal disintegrate, the cells holding onto one another minced into pulp. The petal there to mock me of my hope, fear, vanity. A forbidden dream.2020 — CHEAP POP
THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT — BILL GILLARD. OCTOBER. THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. SHE PROBABLY DIDN’T MEAN IT — DANA LIEBELSON. MYSTIC HUSTLER — ERIKA VEURINK. GLENDALE — GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR — MELISSA BOWERS. COUP DE FOUDRE — KATHERINE GLEASON. FOCUS — TJ FULLER.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
About — CHEAP POP. ** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 **. CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop —stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you. Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda— pop —and2021 — CHEAP POP
2021 — CHEAP POP. JANUARY. INHERITANCE — K-MING CHANG. INFINITY ARROW — SAM MARTONE. RED CORDUROY COAT — AMBER RAY GARCIA. GIRLS IN SPACE BE WARY — MEGHAN PHILLIPS. POO ON YOU — KIM MAGOWAN. THE MAGIC OF SPICES — SUDHA BALAGOPAL. FEBRUARY. SUBMIT — CHEAP POP GUIDELINES. 1. We're looking for your best work in 500 words or less—please, nothing greater than that.. 2. We don't differentiate between Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and anything in-between, nor do we have restrictions on genre—if it pops, it pops!What we want to see is good writing, your best writing, and that's it.Please note: CHEAP POP does not publish poetry, so please do not send it.2019 — CHEAP POP
MARCH 2019. PLASTIC ANIMAL HANDBOOK — EVAN NICHOLLS. HELL — JENNIFER WORTMAN. CORNHOLE, BAGS — JOHN JODZIO. SKIM — ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN. A PATIENT ACT OF LOVE — JARED POVANDA. GOOD GUYS — KATE FINEGAN. CADAVER —MATT BRODERICK. LATE BABIES — MARVINSHACKELFORD.
AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2017. Best of the Net nominations. Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies". Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree". Pushcart Prize nominations. April Bradley — "Little Wake". Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes". Annie Frazier — "Slather". Jeremy John Parker —"Spectrum".
2017 — CHEAP POP
New stories every Tuesday and Thursday.Have a question for us? Email us at CheapPopLit gmail com.Let's do this. ON THE EDGE OF THE NEW WORLD ON THE EDGE OF THE NEW WORLD — PAUL CRENSHAW. June 09, 2015. / Robert James Russell. When they got back to the house he spread the peanut butter on the bread and scooped out a dead lump of grape jelly and spread the jelly and cleaned the knife, then cut the crusts carefully while she watched, her brown hair, so like her mother’s,framing
CONTEST (2015)
In addition, author Phillip Sterling will be our judge! Submission Period: August 1 – September 30, 2015. Announcement of Winners: Friday, October 30, 2015. Prizes: $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place. The three award winners, along with three honorable mention entries, will be published with CHEAP POP. TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT — CHEAP POP TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT. March 09, 2021. / Robert James Russell. I spend Saturday morning alone on the sofa watching failed trust fall compilations on YouTube. One rigid body after another timbers to outstretched arms. Most begin okay, but there are so many ways to fail. After an hour, the productivity app on my phone locks me out. DID I CRY BECAUSE I’D SEEN OR HEARD OR READ OF CRYING DID I CRY BECAUSE I’D SEEN OR HEARD OR READ OF CRYING? — BENJAMIN MCPHERSON FICKLIN. February 09, 2021. / Robert James Russell. Supposedly there was a time when we lacked microcosms, which not only means we lacked maps, but also means we couldn’t look at something outside of ourselves, say a squirrel struggling to find a buried acornAT THE MOVIES
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Witches. Magic. Demonic flying monkeys. Forbidden fruit in our house. Must-see TV for all the other kids. Every year I lie about having seen it. But Dorothy is my friend. The Ten Commandments (195 A BAR AT THE FOLIES-BERGÈRE Jordan Harrison-Twist is a writer and editor based in Bolton, UK. His essays have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, The Double Negative, iiii Magazine, and Corridor8. In August 2020, he won the Retreat West micro fiction competition, in which he has been variously shortlisted and long-listed; he has also been long-listed in the Reflex Press flashSTRONG TONGUE
STRONG TONGUE — KATHY FISH. The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way, he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of a bull. He doesn't look like a member of the dental DELETED SCENES FROM THE POLAR BEAR KING Jessica Hudson is a graduate teaching assistant working on her Creative Writing MFA at Northern Michigan University. She is an associate editor for Passages North.Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Pinch, Fractured Lit, and perhappened mag, amongothers.
2017 — CHEAP POP
New stories every Tuesday and Thursday.Have a question for us? Email us at CheapPopLit gmail com.Let's do this. CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain your MAYFLIES — MEGHAN PHILLIPS — CHEAP POP The mayflies hatch every summer from the banks of the Susquehanna and find their way through the air ducts and window screens of every home in the towns that bracket the river like frown lines. As much as they love the warm glow of porch lamps and2018 — CHEAP POP
AUGUST 2018. MONSTROUS, CHAOTIC THINGS — MAUREEN LANGLOSS. PAROXYSM — GEORGIANA NELSEN. DR. DAD — BENJAMIN NIESPODZIANY. GRAND MOTEL — TRIA WOOD. SEPARATION ANXIETY — BECKY ROBISON. SADIE CRIES — PETER STAVROS. 14 & KNEELING — KRISTIN GARTH. CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
The crunch of the frozen soil underneath as I sink into the earth, my femur mashing against my joints. I lean into the ball of my foot, until I feel the capillaries of the petal disintegrate, the cells holding onto one another minced into pulp. The petal there to mock me of my hope, fear, vanity. A forbidden dream.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
About — CHEAP POP. ** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 **. CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop —stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you. Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda— pop —and2020 — CHEAP POP
THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT — BILL GILLARD. OCTOBER. THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. SHE PROBABLY DIDN’T MEAN IT — DANA LIEBELSON. MYSTIC HUSTLER — ERIKA VEURINK. GLENDALE — GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR — MELISSA BOWERS. COUP DE FOUDRE — KATHERINE GLEASON. FOCUS — TJ FULLER.2021 — CHEAP POP
2021 — CHEAP POP. JANUARY. INHERITANCE — K-MING CHANG. INFINITY ARROW — SAM MARTONE. RED CORDUROY COAT — AMBER RAY GARCIA. GIRLS IN SPACE BE WARY — MEGHAN PHILLIPS. POO ON YOU — KIM MAGOWAN. THE MAGIC OF SPICES — SUDHA BALAGOPAL. FEBRUARY. AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2017. Best of the Net nominations. Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies". Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree". Pushcart Prize nominations. April Bradley — "Little Wake". Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes". Annie Frazier — "Slather". Jeremy John Parker —"Spectrum".
2019 — CHEAP POP
MARCH 2019. PLASTIC ANIMAL HANDBOOK — EVAN NICHOLLS. HELL — JENNIFER WORTMAN. CORNHOLE, BAGS — JOHN JODZIO. SKIM — ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN. A PATIENT ACT OF LOVE — JARED POVANDA. GOOD GUYS — KATE FINEGAN. CADAVER —MATT BRODERICK. LATE BABIES — MARVINSHACKELFORD.
EVERYTHING THEY ARE RUNNING FROM AND A FEW THINGS … From their childhoods they are running. From mothers that precision-cut boiled-egg soldiers, golden yolks running. Snotty noses running. Hot baths, soft towels, gas fires, Eskimo kisses all running. They graze their knees from falling running. From tears that don’t become them running. In the rain,STRONG TONGUE
STRONG TONGUE — KATHY FISH. The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way, he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of a bull. He doesn't look like a member of the dental CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain yourCONTEST (2015)
In addition, author Phillip Sterling will be our judge! Submission Period: August 1 – September 30, 2015. Announcement of Winners: Friday, October 30, 2015. Prizes: $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place. The three award winners, along with three honorable mention entries, will be published with CHEAP POP. CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
The crunch of the frozen soil underneath as I sink into the earth, my femur mashing against my joints. I lean into the ball of my foot, until I feel the capillaries of the petal disintegrate, the cells holding onto one another minced into pulp. The petal there to mock me of my hope, fear, vanity. A forbidden dream.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
About — CHEAP POP. ** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 **. CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop —stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you. Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda— pop —and2020 — CHEAP POP
THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT — BILL GILLARD. OCTOBER. THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. SHE PROBABLY DIDN’T MEAN IT — DANA LIEBELSON. MYSTIC HUSTLER — ERIKA VEURINK. GLENDALE — GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR — MELISSA BOWERS. COUP DE FOUDRE — KATHERINE GLEASON. FOCUS — TJ FULLER.2021 — CHEAP POP
2021 — CHEAP POP. JANUARY. INHERITANCE — K-MING CHANG. INFINITY ARROW — SAM MARTONE. RED CORDUROY COAT — AMBER RAY GARCIA. GIRLS IN SPACE BE WARY — MEGHAN PHILLIPS. POO ON YOU — KIM MAGOWAN. THE MAGIC OF SPICES — SUDHA BALAGOPAL. FEBRUARY. AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2017. Best of the Net nominations. Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies". Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree". Pushcart Prize nominations. April Bradley — "Little Wake". Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes". Annie Frazier — "Slather". Jeremy John Parker —"Spectrum".
2019 — CHEAP POP
MARCH 2019. PLASTIC ANIMAL HANDBOOK — EVAN NICHOLLS. HELL — JENNIFER WORTMAN. CORNHOLE, BAGS — JOHN JODZIO. SKIM — ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN. A PATIENT ACT OF LOVE — JARED POVANDA. GOOD GUYS — KATE FINEGAN. CADAVER —MATT BRODERICK. LATE BABIES — MARVINSHACKELFORD.
EVERYTHING THEY ARE RUNNING FROM AND A FEW THINGS … From their childhoods they are running. From mothers that precision-cut boiled-egg soldiers, golden yolks running. Snotty noses running. Hot baths, soft towels, gas fires, Eskimo kisses all running. They graze their knees from falling running. From tears that don’t become them running. In the rain,STRONG TONGUE
STRONG TONGUE — KATHY FISH. The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way, he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of a bull. He doesn't look like a member of the dental CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain yourCONTEST (2015)
In addition, author Phillip Sterling will be our judge! Submission Period: August 1 – September 30, 2015. Announcement of Winners: Friday, October 30, 2015. Prizes: $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place. The three award winners, along with three honorable mention entries, will be published with CHEAP POP. SUBMIT — CHEAP POP GUIDELINES. 1. We're looking for your best work in 500 words or less—please, nothing greater than that.. 2. We don't differentiate between Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and anything in-between, nor do we have restrictions on genre—if it pops, it pops!What we want to see is good writing, your best writing, and that's it.Please note: CHEAP POP does not publish poetry, so please do not send it. EVERYTHING THEY ARE RUNNING FROM AND A FEW THINGS … From their childhoods they are running. From mothers that precision-cut boiled-egg soldiers, golden yolks running. Snotty noses running. Hot baths, soft towels, gas fires, Eskimo kisses all running. They graze their knees from falling running. From tears that don’t become them running. In the rain, TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT — CHEAP POP TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT. March 09, 2021. / Robert James Russell. I spend Saturday morning alone on the sofa watching failed trust fall compilations on YouTube. One rigid body after another timbers to outstretched arms. Most begin okay, but there are so many ways to fail. After an hour, the productivity app on my phone locks me out.THE STONE GIRL
THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. October 01, 2020. / Robert James Russell. (Basalt) The stone girl appears more air than mineral with her cavities and pores of hardened lava trapping dissolved gases, the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. Over time, she oxidizes into hematite, taking on a rust-red that mars her grey-black surface. EXIT — REBECCA HANNIGAN — CHEAP POP And then you have a breakdown at dinner. You finish your fish, the cod, but can’t finish dessert, panna cotta, as if you even know what panna cotta is. You’re drinking a martini and you like martinis, but it doesn’t go together, not the martini with the cod or the panna cotta with the cod or the pan2017 — CHEAP POP
New stories every Tuesday and Thursday.Have a question for us? Email us at CheapPopLit gmail com.Let's do this.2018 — CHEAP POP
AUGUST 2018. MONSTROUS, CHAOTIC THINGS — MAUREEN LANGLOSS. PAROXYSM — GEORGIANA NELSEN. DR. DAD — BENJAMIN NIESPODZIANY. GRAND MOTEL — TRIA WOOD. SEPARATION ANXIETY — BECKY ROBISON. SADIE CRIES — PETER STAVROS. 14 & KNEELING — KRISTIN GARTH. CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain your2014 — CHEAP POP
APRIL 2014. HEAT WAVE — AKI SCHILZ. TEMPT YOUR RETRIBUTION TONIGHT — JUSTIN LAWRENCE DAUGHERTY. PROJECTION — LISA MECHAM. THE WOOD AND THE BLADE — ANNA PRUSHINSKAYA. DRESS UP — MATT BELL. FINGER SPELL — CHASE BURKE. FRIDGE POETRY — JENNIFER CHARDON. THE MUFFIN MAN — JON SINDELL. THE MURDEROUS HISTORY OF TUMBLEWEEDS David Drury lives in Seattle, Washington. His fiction has been broadcast on National Public Radio, published in Best American Nonrequired Reading and is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA.He has a Masters degree in Christian Studies from Regent College (University of British Columbia) and been kicked out of every casino in Las Vegas. CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
The crunch of the frozen soil underneath as I sink into the earth, my femur mashing against my joints. I lean into the ball of my foot, until I feel the capillaries of the petal disintegrate, the cells holding onto one another minced into pulp. The petal there to mock me of my hope, fear, vanity. A forbidden dream.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
About — CHEAP POP. ** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 **. CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop —stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you. Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda— pop —and2020 — CHEAP POP
THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT — BILL GILLARD. OCTOBER. THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. SHE PROBABLY DIDN’T MEAN IT — DANA LIEBELSON. MYSTIC HUSTLER — ERIKA VEURINK. GLENDALE — GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR — MELISSA BOWERS. COUP DE FOUDRE — KATHERINE GLEASON. FOCUS — TJ FULLER.2021 — CHEAP POP
2021 — CHEAP POP. JANUARY. INHERITANCE — K-MING CHANG. INFINITY ARROW — SAM MARTONE. RED CORDUROY COAT — AMBER RAY GARCIA. GIRLS IN SPACE BE WARY — MEGHAN PHILLIPS. POO ON YOU — KIM MAGOWAN. THE MAGIC OF SPICES — SUDHA BALAGOPAL. FEBRUARY. AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2017. Best of the Net nominations. Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies". Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree". Pushcart Prize nominations. April Bradley — "Little Wake". Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes". Annie Frazier — "Slather". Jeremy John Parker —"Spectrum".
2019 — CHEAP POP
MARCH 2019. PLASTIC ANIMAL HANDBOOK — EVAN NICHOLLS. HELL — JENNIFER WORTMAN. CORNHOLE, BAGS — JOHN JODZIO. SKIM — ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN. A PATIENT ACT OF LOVE — JARED POVANDA. GOOD GUYS — KATE FINEGAN. CADAVER —MATT BRODERICK. LATE BABIES — MARVINSHACKELFORD.
EVERYTHING THEY ARE RUNNING FROM AND A FEW THINGS … From their childhoods they are running. From mothers that precision-cut boiled-egg soldiers, golden yolks running. Snotty noses running. Hot baths, soft towels, gas fires, Eskimo kisses all running. They graze their knees from falling running. From tears that don’t become them running. In the rain,STRONG TONGUE
STRONG TONGUE — KATHY FISH. The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way, he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of a bull. He doesn't look like a member of the dental CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain yourCONTEST (2015)
In addition, author Phillip Sterling will be our judge! Submission Period: August 1 – September 30, 2015. Announcement of Winners: Friday, October 30, 2015. Prizes: $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place. The three award winners, along with three honorable mention entries, will be published with CHEAP POP. CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
The crunch of the frozen soil underneath as I sink into the earth, my femur mashing against my joints. I lean into the ball of my foot, until I feel the capillaries of the petal disintegrate, the cells holding onto one another minced into pulp. The petal there to mock me of my hope, fear, vanity. A forbidden dream.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
About — CHEAP POP. ** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 **. CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop —stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you. Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda— pop —and2020 — CHEAP POP
THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT — BILL GILLARD. OCTOBER. THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. SHE PROBABLY DIDN’T MEAN IT — DANA LIEBELSON. MYSTIC HUSTLER — ERIKA VEURINK. GLENDALE — GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR — MELISSA BOWERS. COUP DE FOUDRE — KATHERINE GLEASON. FOCUS — TJ FULLER.2021 — CHEAP POP
2021 — CHEAP POP. JANUARY. INHERITANCE — K-MING CHANG. INFINITY ARROW — SAM MARTONE. RED CORDUROY COAT — AMBER RAY GARCIA. GIRLS IN SPACE BE WARY — MEGHAN PHILLIPS. POO ON YOU — KIM MAGOWAN. THE MAGIC OF SPICES — SUDHA BALAGOPAL. FEBRUARY. AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2017. Best of the Net nominations. Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies". Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree". Pushcart Prize nominations. April Bradley — "Little Wake". Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes". Annie Frazier — "Slather". Jeremy John Parker —"Spectrum".
2019 — CHEAP POP
MARCH 2019. PLASTIC ANIMAL HANDBOOK — EVAN NICHOLLS. HELL — JENNIFER WORTMAN. CORNHOLE, BAGS — JOHN JODZIO. SKIM — ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN. A PATIENT ACT OF LOVE — JARED POVANDA. GOOD GUYS — KATE FINEGAN. CADAVER —MATT BRODERICK. LATE BABIES — MARVINSHACKELFORD.
EVERYTHING THEY ARE RUNNING FROM AND A FEW THINGS … From their childhoods they are running. From mothers that precision-cut boiled-egg soldiers, golden yolks running. Snotty noses running. Hot baths, soft towels, gas fires, Eskimo kisses all running. They graze their knees from falling running. From tears that don’t become them running. In the rain,STRONG TONGUE
STRONG TONGUE — KATHY FISH. The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way, he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of a bull. He doesn't look like a member of the dental CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain yourCONTEST (2015)
In addition, author Phillip Sterling will be our judge! Submission Period: August 1 – September 30, 2015. Announcement of Winners: Friday, October 30, 2015. Prizes: $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place. The three award winners, along with three honorable mention entries, will be published with CHEAP POP. SUBMIT — CHEAP POP GUIDELINES. 1. We're looking for your best work in 500 words or less—please, nothing greater than that.. 2. We don't differentiate between Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and anything in-between, nor do we have restrictions on genre—if it pops, it pops!What we want to see is good writing, your best writing, and that's it.Please note: CHEAP POP does not publish poetry, so please do not send it. EVERYTHING THEY ARE RUNNING FROM AND A FEW THINGS … From their childhoods they are running. From mothers that precision-cut boiled-egg soldiers, golden yolks running. Snotty noses running. Hot baths, soft towels, gas fires, Eskimo kisses all running. They graze their knees from falling running. From tears that don’t become them running. In the rain, TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT — CHEAP POP TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT. March 09, 2021. / Robert James Russell. I spend Saturday morning alone on the sofa watching failed trust fall compilations on YouTube. One rigid body after another timbers to outstretched arms. Most begin okay, but there are so many ways to fail. After an hour, the productivity app on my phone locks me out.THE STONE GIRL
THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. October 01, 2020. / Robert James Russell. (Basalt) The stone girl appears more air than mineral with her cavities and pores of hardened lava trapping dissolved gases, the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. Over time, she oxidizes into hematite, taking on a rust-red that mars her grey-black surface. EXIT — REBECCA HANNIGAN — CHEAP POP And then you have a breakdown at dinner. You finish your fish, the cod, but can’t finish dessert, panna cotta, as if you even know what panna cotta is. You’re drinking a martini and you like martinis, but it doesn’t go together, not the martini with the cod or the panna cotta with the cod or the pan2017 — CHEAP POP
New stories every Tuesday and Thursday.Have a question for us? Email us at CheapPopLit gmail com.Let's do this.2018 — CHEAP POP
AUGUST 2018. MONSTROUS, CHAOTIC THINGS — MAUREEN LANGLOSS. PAROXYSM — GEORGIANA NELSEN. DR. DAD — BENJAMIN NIESPODZIANY. GRAND MOTEL — TRIA WOOD. SEPARATION ANXIETY — BECKY ROBISON. SADIE CRIES — PETER STAVROS. 14 & KNEELING — KRISTIN GARTH. CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain your2014 — CHEAP POP
APRIL 2014. HEAT WAVE — AKI SCHILZ. TEMPT YOUR RETRIBUTION TONIGHT — JUSTIN LAWRENCE DAUGHERTY. PROJECTION — LISA MECHAM. THE WOOD AND THE BLADE — ANNA PRUSHINSKAYA. DRESS UP — MATT BELL. FINGER SPELL — CHASE BURKE. FRIDGE POETRY — JENNIFER CHARDON. THE MUFFIN MAN — JON SINDELL. THE MURDEROUS HISTORY OF TUMBLEWEEDS David Drury lives in Seattle, Washington. His fiction has been broadcast on National Public Radio, published in Best American Nonrequired Reading and is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA.He has a Masters degree in Christian Studies from Regent College (University of British Columbia) and been kicked out of every casino in Las Vegas. CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
The crunch of the frozen soil underneath as I sink into the earth, my femur mashing against my joints. I lean into the ball of my foot, until I feel the capillaries of the petal disintegrate, the cells holding onto one another minced into pulp. The petal there to mock me of my hope, fear, vanity. A forbidden dream.2020 — CHEAP POP
THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT — BILL GILLARD. OCTOBER. THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. SHE PROBABLY DIDN’T MEAN IT — DANA LIEBELSON. MYSTIC HUSTLER — ERIKA VEURINK. GLENDALE — GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR — MELISSA BOWERS. COUP DE FOUDRE — KATHERINE GLEASON. FOCUS — TJ FULLER.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
About — CHEAP POP. ** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 **. CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop —stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you. Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda— pop —and2021 — CHEAP POP
2021 — CHEAP POP. JANUARY. INHERITANCE — K-MING CHANG. INFINITY ARROW — SAM MARTONE. RED CORDUROY COAT — AMBER RAY GARCIA. GIRLS IN SPACE BE WARY — MEGHAN PHILLIPS. POO ON YOU — KIM MAGOWAN. THE MAGIC OF SPICES — SUDHA BALAGOPAL. FEBRUARY. SUBMIT — CHEAP POP GUIDELINES. 1. We're looking for your best work in 500 words or less—please, nothing greater than that.. 2. We don't differentiate between Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and anything in-between, nor do we have restrictions on genre—if it pops, it pops!What we want to see is good writing, your best writing, and that's it.Please note: CHEAP POP does not publish poetry, so please do not send it. AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2017. Best of the Net nominations. Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies". Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree". Pushcart Prize nominations. April Bradley — "Little Wake". Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes". Annie Frazier — "Slather". Jeremy John Parker —"Spectrum".
2019 — CHEAP POPCHEAP POP LITSEVEN BUCKS A POPWHERE TO BUY POP ITSHOW MUCH IS A POP IT MARCH 2019. PLASTIC ANIMAL HANDBOOK — EVAN NICHOLLS. HELL — JENNIFER WORTMAN. CORNHOLE, BAGS — JOHN JODZIO. SKIM — ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN. A PATIENT ACT OF LOVE — JARED POVANDA. GOOD GUYS — KATE FINEGAN. CADAVER —MATT BRODERICK. LATE BABIES — MARVINSHACKELFORD.
STRONG TONGUE
STRONG TONGUE — KATHY FISH. The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way, he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of a bull. He doesn't look like a member of the dental CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain yourCONTEST (2015)
In addition, author Phillip Sterling will be our judge! Submission Period: August 1 – September 30, 2015. Announcement of Winners: Friday, October 30, 2015. Prizes: $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place. The three award winners, along with three honorable mention entries, will be published with CHEAP POP. CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
The crunch of the frozen soil underneath as I sink into the earth, my femur mashing against my joints. I lean into the ball of my foot, until I feel the capillaries of the petal disintegrate, the cells holding onto one another minced into pulp. The petal there to mock me of my hope, fear, vanity. A forbidden dream.2020 — CHEAP POP
THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT — BILL GILLARD. OCTOBER. THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. SHE PROBABLY DIDN’T MEAN IT — DANA LIEBELSON. MYSTIC HUSTLER — ERIKA VEURINK. GLENDALE — GEGHAM MUGHNETSYAN. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR — MELISSA BOWERS. COUP DE FOUDRE — KATHERINE GLEASON. FOCUS — TJ FULLER.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
About — CHEAP POP. ** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 **. CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop —stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you. Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda— pop —and2021 — CHEAP POP
2021 — CHEAP POP. JANUARY. INHERITANCE — K-MING CHANG. INFINITY ARROW — SAM MARTONE. RED CORDUROY COAT — AMBER RAY GARCIA. GIRLS IN SPACE BE WARY — MEGHAN PHILLIPS. POO ON YOU — KIM MAGOWAN. THE MAGIC OF SPICES — SUDHA BALAGOPAL. FEBRUARY. SUBMIT — CHEAP POP GUIDELINES. 1. We're looking for your best work in 500 words or less—please, nothing greater than that.. 2. We don't differentiate between Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and anything in-between, nor do we have restrictions on genre—if it pops, it pops!What we want to see is good writing, your best writing, and that's it.Please note: CHEAP POP does not publish poetry, so please do not send it. AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2017. Best of the Net nominations. Meghan Phillips — "Mayflies". Jim Warner — "Adobo Breath and the Country Bear Jamboree". Pushcart Prize nominations. April Bradley — "Little Wake". Matthew Fogarty — "Black Holes". Annie Frazier — "Slather". Jeremy John Parker —"Spectrum".
2019 — CHEAP POPCHEAP POP LITSEVEN BUCKS A POPWHERE TO BUY POP ITSHOW MUCH IS A POP IT MARCH 2019. PLASTIC ANIMAL HANDBOOK — EVAN NICHOLLS. HELL — JENNIFER WORTMAN. CORNHOLE, BAGS — JOHN JODZIO. SKIM — ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN. A PATIENT ACT OF LOVE — JARED POVANDA. GOOD GUYS — KATE FINEGAN. CADAVER —MATT BRODERICK. LATE BABIES — MARVINSHACKELFORD.
STRONG TONGUE
STRONG TONGUE — KATHY FISH. The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way, he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of a bull. He doesn't look like a member of the dental CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain yourCONTEST (2015)
In addition, author Phillip Sterling will be our judge! Submission Period: August 1 – September 30, 2015. Announcement of Winners: Friday, October 30, 2015. Prizes: $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd place. The three award winners, along with three honorable mention entries, will be published with CHEAP POP.THE STONE GIRL
THE STONE GIRL — LUCY ZHANG. October 01, 2020. / Robert James Russell. (Basalt) The stone girl appears more air than mineral with her cavities and pores of hardened lava trapping dissolved gases, the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. Over time, she oxidizes into hematite, taking on a rust-red that mars her grey-black surface. TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT — CHEAP POP TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT. March 09, 2021. / Robert James Russell. I spend Saturday morning alone on the sofa watching failed trust fall compilations on YouTube. One rigid body after another timbers to outstretched arms. Most begin okay, but there are so many ways to fail. After an hour, the productivity app on my phone locks me out.AT THE MOVIES
The Wizard of Oz (1939) Witches. Magic. Demonic flying monkeys. Forbidden fruit in our house. Must-see TV for all the other kids. Every year I lie about having seen it. But Dorothy is my friend. The Ten Commandments (195 DELETED SCENES FROM THE POLAR BEAR KING Jessica Hudson is a graduate teaching assistant working on her Creative Writing MFA at Northern Michigan University. She is an associate editor for Passages North.Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Pinch, Fractured Lit, and perhappened mag, amongothers.
DID I CRY BECAUSE I’D SEEN OR HEARD OR READ OF CRYING DID I CRY BECAUSE I’D SEEN OR HEARD OR READ OF CRYING? — BENJAMIN MCPHERSON FICKLIN. February 09, 2021. / Robert James Russell. Supposedly there was a time when we lacked microcosms, which not only means we lacked maps, but also means we couldn’t look at something outside of ourselves, say a squirrel struggling to find a buried acorn AFTER SEX, WE FIND A PRAYING MANTIS IN OUR BED The first time we slept together in the new apartment, it had been five weeks since you last touched me. But they say moving is one of the most stressful things a marriage can go through, and back then we would have agreed—our lower backs aching, the shrieking rip of packing tape still ringing in our ears—so who could blame us for notfeeling up to it.
THE FOURTH KIND
Evan Nicholls attends James Madison University (‘20) and is from Fauquier County, Virginia. He is involved in JMU’s literary magazine, Gardy Loo, and has work appearing in CHEAP POP, Penny, and formercactus, as well as forthcoming in The Jellyfish Review and LostBalloon.Follow him
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AUGUST 2018. MONSTROUS, CHAOTIC THINGS — MAUREEN LANGLOSS. PAROXYSM — GEORGIANA NELSEN. DR. DAD — BENJAMIN NIESPODZIANY. GRAND MOTEL — TRIA WOOD. SEPARATION ANXIETY — BECKY ROBISON. SADIE CRIES — PETER STAVROS. 14 & KNEELING — KRISTIN GARTH. CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain your ON THE EDGE OF THE NEW WORLD ON THE EDGE OF THE NEW WORLD — PAUL CRENSHAW. June 09, 2015. / Robert James Russell. When they got back to the house he spread the peanut butter on the bread and scooped out a dead lump of grape jelly and spread the jelly and cleaned the knife, then cut the crusts carefully while she watched, her brown hair, so like her mother’s,framing
CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
CHEAP POP is an online literary journal that publishes micro-fiction, 500 words or less—writing that pops.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 ** CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop—stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you.Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda—pop—and you can, to this day, see signs all over the state advertising “Cheap pop2020 — CHEAP POP
august. all churchgoers are fanfic authors — andy lopez. st. roch’s dog — devin thomas o’shea. they’ll steal your skin and other lessons from the world’s fair — erin vachon2021 — CHEAP POP
march. deleted scenes from the polar bear king — jessica hudson. new release — abigail oswald. timber — kelsey englert a bar at the folies-bergÈre — jordan harrison-twist SUBMIT — CHEAP POP GUIDELINES. 1. We're looking for your best work in 500 words or less—please, nothing greater than that.. 2. We don't differentiate between Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and anything in-between, nor do we have restrictions on genre—if it pops, it pops!What we want to see is good writing, your best writing, and that's it.Please note: CHEAP POP does not publish poetry, so please do not send it. AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2019. Best of the Net "Monstrous, Chaotic Things" — Maureen Langloss ”Anarchism is Not Enouygh” — Amy Stuber. Pushcart Prize “Just After Joy” — Molia Dumbleton 2019 — CHEAP POPCHEAP POP LITSEVEN BUCKS A POPWHERE TO BUY POP ITSHOW MUCH IS A POP IT february 2019. still life with prairie, 1860 — natalie teal mcallister. the real name — veronica klash axl accompanies slash to a lakers game — amorak huey & w. todd kanekoSTRONG TONGUE
The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way , he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of aCONTEST (2015)
—INTRODUCING OUR 2015 MICRO-FICTION CONTEST!— We've come together with the Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters (GLCL), a literary nonprofit located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to put this on, and we are so excited.GLCL's mission is to encourage, promote, and celebrate the literary endeavors of writers within the Great Lakes region, and we are honored to be partnering up with them. CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain your CHEAP POPSTORIESAWARDSCONTEST (2015)ABOUTSUBMITCORTNEY PHILLIPSMERIWETHER
CHEAP POP is an online literary journal that publishes micro-fiction, 500 words or less—writing that pops.ABOUT — CHEAP POP
** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN June 1 - 30, 2021 ** CHEAP POP is an online literary journal focusing on stories, 500 words or less, that pop—stories that, regardless of their short nature, stick with you.Stories that are unforgettable. The name CHEAP POP is inspired by the regional word Michiganders use for soda—pop—and you can, to this day, see signs all over the state advertising “Cheap pop2020 — CHEAP POP
august. all churchgoers are fanfic authors — andy lopez. st. roch’s dog — devin thomas o’shea. they’ll steal your skin and other lessons from the world’s fair — erin vachon2021 — CHEAP POP
march. deleted scenes from the polar bear king — jessica hudson. new release — abigail oswald. timber — kelsey englert a bar at the folies-bergÈre — jordan harrison-twist SUBMIT — CHEAP POP GUIDELINES. 1. We're looking for your best work in 500 words or less—please, nothing greater than that.. 2. We don't differentiate between Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and anything in-between, nor do we have restrictions on genre—if it pops, it pops!What we want to see is good writing, your best writing, and that's it.Please note: CHEAP POP does not publish poetry, so please do not send it. AWARDS — CHEAP POP 2019. Best of the Net "Monstrous, Chaotic Things" — Maureen Langloss ”Anarchism is Not Enouygh” — Amy Stuber. Pushcart Prize “Just After Joy” — Molia Dumbleton 2019 — CHEAP POPCHEAP POP LITSEVEN BUCKS A POPWHERE TO BUY POP ITSHOW MUCH IS A POP IT february 2019. still life with prairie, 1860 — natalie teal mcallister. the real name — veronica klash axl accompanies slash to a lakers game — amorak huey & w. todd kanekoSTRONG TONGUE
The dentist is attempting to install two crowns on my teeth, but he has to call in reinforcements. Can you just try to keep your tongue out of the way , he asks. A man and a young woman come into the room. The woman is normal-sized, but the man's the size of aCONTEST (2015)
—INTRODUCING OUR 2015 MICRO-FICTION CONTEST!— We've come together with the Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters (GLCL), a literary nonprofit located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to put this on, and we are so excited.GLCL's mission is to encourage, promote, and celebrate the literary endeavors of writers within the Great Lakes region, and we are honored to be partnering up with them. CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain yourTHE STONE GIRL
(Basalt) The stone girl appears more air than mineral with her cavities and pores of hardened lava trapping dissolved gases, the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. Over time, she oxidizes into hematite, taking on a rust-red that mars her grey-black surface. When a child picks up one of her pieces fr TIMBER — KELSEY ENGLERT — CHEAP POP Kelsey Englert’s writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, Passages North, Jellyfish Review, The Citron Review, and Gone Lawn, among other literary magazines.She is a Pennsylvania native and earned her M.A. in English from Ball State University and M.F.A. in creative writing from West Virginia University. DID I CRY BECAUSE I’D SEEN OR HEARD OR READ OF CRYING Benjamin McPherson Ficklin will never surrender—Benjamin McPherson Ficklin will always love you. They're the author of the chapbook A Cynical View of Dystopian America.Their work has been published in Lomography, wildness, Ursus Americanus Press, STORGY, Clackamas Literary Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Autre, Oregon Voice Magazine, and included in Best Small Fictions 2019 and AFTER SEX, WE FIND A PRAYING MANTIS IN OUR BED The first time we slept together in the new apartment, it had been five weeks since you last touched me. But they say moving is one of the most stressful things a marriage can go through, and back then we would have agreed—our lower backs aching, the shrieking rip of packing tape still ringing in our ears—so who could blame us for notfeeling up to it.
THE FOURTH KIND
Evan Nicholls attends James Madison University (‘20) and is from Fauquier County, Virginia. He is involved in JMU’s literary magazine, Gardy Loo, and has work appearing in CHEAP POP, Penny, and formercactus, as well as forthcoming in The Jellyfish Review and LostBalloon.Follow him
CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain your2018 — CHEAP POP
february 2018. seasons — jeff hoard. back when you were river phoenix — jennifer harvey. flight helmet — katherine gehan. she'll only come out at night — kristine langley mahler ON THE EDGE OF THE NEW WORLD When they got back to the house he spread the peanut butter on the bread and scooped out a dead lump of grape jelly and spread the jelly and cleaned the knife, then cut the crusts carefully while she watched, her brown hair, so like her mother’s, framing her sad face. Her hands were small in her lap2014 — CHEAP POP
New stories every Tuesday and Thursday.Have a question for us? Email us at CheapPopLit gmail com.Let's do this. THE MURDEROUS HISTORY OF TUMBLEWEEDS David Drury lives in Seattle, Washington. His fiction has been broadcast on National Public Radio, published in Best American Nonrequired Reading and is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA.He has a Masters degree in Christian Studies from Regent College (University of British Columbia) and been kicked out of every casino in Las Vegas.CHEAP POP
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January 13, 2020
BEST MICROFICTION 2020 RESULTS!January 13, 2020 /
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We are DELIGHTED to announce that Best Microfiction has selected SIX _CHEAP POP_ stories for inclusion in the 2020 anthology!*
“Weight Room” by Paul Crenshaw*
“Men’s Secrets” by Leonora Desar*
“Polaroid Snapshot: Skinny Dipping in the Little Juniata River” by Patrick Thomas Henry*
“Still Life With Prairie, 1960” by Natalie Teal McAllister*
“Brass” by Melissa Ostrom*
“Toddy’s Got Lice Again” by Tucker Leighty Phillips A huge congrats to our _CHEAP POP_ family! You can read a full list of pieces selected by Best Microfiction here.
You can check out all of the _CHEAP POP_ 2019 pieces we nominated here.
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December 19, 2019 / Rob Russell Thank you ALL for a beautiful 2019. Readers, writers, and everyone in-between: we couldn't do what we do without your support. Subs will be open again in 2020. Stay tuned for more information. We love you.♥️
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November 11, 2019
BEST SMALL FICTIONS — 2019 NOMINATIONSNovember 11, 2019
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We’re thrilled to announce our 2019 BEST SMALL FICTIONS nominations! Best of luck to our nominees and a _huge _thank you to everyone who submits to our site; you’re all a part of the _CHEAP POP_ family! Check out all of our 2019 nominees here.__November 11, 2019
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October 31, 2019
CONVENIENCE STORE PRAYER — ELIZABETH HART BERGSTROMOctober 31, 2019
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Come in, all you chain smokers and compulsive gamblers, all you bulimics and alcoholics. Let me lead you into temptation. From my bleach-baptized aisles I bring unto you Mega Millions lotto tickets, 73 configurations of chocolate and caramel and nougat folded into crinkling wrappers, 24-ounce cans of malt liquor, low-tar Camel Lights and full-flavor Marlboro Reds, and Cheetos to stain your fingers with their sticky orange pollen. I bring you Powerball drawn every Wednesday and Saturday night at 10:59 p.m. Eastern. I bring you 18-packs of Budweiser and liters of budget Merlot and boxes of laxative pills hermetically sealed into blister packs. I bring you cherry snack pies and chewing tobacco. I bring you the churn of the slushie machine, the smell of hot coffee, and the tolling ofmechanical bells.
I bring unto you everything you could possibly need in your quest to become nothing. Some will fight against this path, with their twelve steps or their Nicorette gum or their gods. But you will come back to me one day, for this is your true temple. Glazed, jelly-filled, pink-frosted with rainbow sprinkles. And lo, my neon lamps will burn as bright as rubies. They will burn 24/7/365. I am the refuge of all exiles, welcoming you with doors that swing open at your touch. Come to me, world-weary, storm-tossed, empty and alone. Inside my walls, there is no weather, no time. Trade your coins for my Scratch and Win cards and sleek cigarettes. Bring me your shame, your failure, your relapse, and let me feed them until they grow strong. Kneel down on the tile floor that is identical to tens of thousands of others. Reach your trembling hand into my shelves and you will find it: here, only here, you willfind what you need.
------------------------- Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom's work appears or is forthcoming in _The New York Times, Post Road, Catapult, The Offing, Fourteen Hills, Hobart, Hippocampus_, and elsewhere. She's a queer, disabled writer who livesin Vermont.
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October 29, 2019
NAME ORIGINS — NORA BONNER October 29, 2019 / RobRussell
I named all three of my kids after kids I picked on. Angelica was actually angelic, more than mine. In the front of the second grade classroom, she doodled prodigy depictions of our teacher, Ms. Halsworth, down to the mole below her left ear and her pouty expression when we were too loud in the hallway. One day I spread a rumor that Angelica had a crush on a boy named James who had a reputation for picking his nose. Angelica had a hard time making friends after that, but relationship dramas don’t linger among the so-young. We forgot about it the next year, when she won the school-wide art contest for drawing a detailed Machu Picchu during our unit on South America. My middle child is named after a kid from middle school, Kalvin Cross, though mine is Calvin, like the cartoon. Kalvin, bearded already, looked like he was in high school. Maybe he’d been held back. He smoked, even as an eighth grader, behind the backstop before classes began. I stole his cigarettes and showed them to everyone, until the lunch aid confiscated the pack. When she asked where I got them, I told her. The next Friday, we all endured an assembly about gateway drugs. Kalvin got suspended for smoking onschool property.
Penelope dropped out of high school when she got pregnant over the summer between our sophomore and junior years. We called her Penny, but my daughter is just Penelope. I flirted with her boyfriend, Lance, then dated him after she left. Lance was all right, though he got mean during video games. Not as interesting as Penny, who was a very good volleyball player. I nicknamed Penny "Tree Trunk," because she was tall and formidable and looked like she could kick a soccer ball from here to Machu Picchu. But the second part of her name is what caught on. “Trunk,” the boys would shout at her. “Shake that trunk, Trunk.” My kids are fifteen, twelve, and ten, respectively. They haven’t asked about their name origins. Others have. I say they run in the family. I say I just had a feeling. Maybe I am telling the truth: that feeling is power, or the fear of power. I’m not saying I believe I ruined these lives. As far as I know, I did not. But I could have. I don’t know one person who hasn’t been ruined, in one way or another, by the people who brought them up. We all have the potential to ruin each other. We all have to find ways to remember our potential to ruin each other. ------------------------- Nora Bonner is a fiction writer and writing instructor from Detroit, Michigan. Her stories have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including _Shenandoah_, _Quarterly West, Fiction Southeast, Juked, the Indiana Review_, the _North American Review_, _Hobart_, and the _Best American Non-Required Reading_. Currently, she lives in Atlanta where she is a PhD candidate in the creative writing program at Georgia State. You can find more of her stories at www.norabonner.com . __October 29, 2019 / __RobRussell / __Comment
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October 24, 2019
THERE WAS ALWAYS BETH — EMILY JAMESOctober 24, 2019 /
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And Beth always drove. Champagne-colored Saturn, we called it the Bullet, but it looked like ET with those the pop-up headlights. She’d pull up the driveway and do a quick high-pitched honk, the Alien Cry. Liza was the smallest of us, barely 4’11’’, but always sat shotgun because she’d brought the mixtapes. Sublime, Radiohead, Mary J Blige, cut off at the end and then click-clack and flip onto the other side. I brought the bud. Me and Cass squeezed in the back, Cass rolling the joint, hers always pulled best, embers falling onto bare legs, crumbs balanced on bumpy roads, they’d trickle into the cracks of our thighs, we'd pluck them from the suede with our uneven fingernails. _This thing have shocks? _We'd scream, _Fuck! _Beth would just stare, shake her head, her finger resting on the blinker, pointed like an arrow always ready to signal, always ready to turn, never letting her back rest against the worn fabric of the seat. Carrying all the stress of us from one road to the next, from 7-Eleven to the Palisades Mall, from anywhere to everywhere, just like she carried everything in her big house on the hill, a pool green from too much or not enough chlorine, her four little brothers and little white, oily-eyed, yapping scratching dog and a mom found in the broom closet with a stomach full of pills. Everywhere, like she’d carry us the rest of our lives, to and through all places and things, known and unknown, weddings and stomach cancers, babies in bellies who lived and died. Beth bought the cards. Beth cleared the casserole trays. Beth showed up first. But back when the future was just a pinhole through which none of us could see, Beth always drove, the damp cigarette scent pouring from the vent when we turned up the heat dial, when we smoked with windows closed, Upstate New York frost beneath our fingers. Beth never laughed, only sighed, until she cackled so hard she couldn’t breathe. Beth never sang, only nodded, lips tight and pulled, until she screamed, lyrics all wrong, high as a kite, head back and hands on the wheel, the road still ahead. We never thought then how one day we’d be swallowed, and how could we have imagined Beth as the first to go, when we were just the four of us unbuckled, driving and wailing and staring, sixteen and small in a world that had gotten too large too quickly, couldn’t hold us in, couldn’t take us away. ------------------------- Emily James is a teacher and writer in NYC. Her recent work can be found in _Pidgeonholes, Pithead Chapel, Hippocampus, The Atticus Review, The Rumpus, JMWW Journal_, among others. She is the recipient of the 2019 Bechtel Prize from _Teachers and Writers' Magazine_. You can find her online at www.emilysarahjames.com and tweet her @missg3rd.__October 24, 2019
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October 22, 2019
CHICKEN — LACEY N. DUNHAM October 22, 2019 / RobRussell
Morgan worked with a guy in the Marines they all called Crazy Dave who was a little apeshit. One day while out on patrol Crazy Dave found a chicken, scooped it up, clamped its beak and feet with wire, and handed it to the gunner, who tucked the frantic, squawking creature between his feet. The chicken lived at base for six months in a mesh cage behind the head until Crazy Dave was wounded and the MEDVAC carried him away. No one knew what to do with Crazy Dave’s chicken, and finally it was decided they would kill it and roast it over a spit. They were sick of MREs. They were sick of sand in their teeth and sand in their piss, too. They had the crazy idea that the chicken would cure their gripes. They got the okay from the Master Gunny, but no one had the heart toshoot it.
“Seems wrong somehow,” one PFC said. “You can’t just point-blank shoot chickens.” A beheading was deemed appropriate, and on the appointed day two lance corporals stretched its neck over a cinderblock and handed the axe to the new guy, fresh off basic and a little dim. He looked at each of them pleadingly and they growled back menacingly. He raised the axe and severed the head from the body in one clean blow. The chicken stumbled five yards from the cinderblock before collapsing. “Well, fuck,” the fucking new guy said, dropping the axe to the dirt. “I didn’t know it was going to do that.” When Morgan later told Doreen the story, his wife looked at him hard through the ticks and buzz of the computer screen, her image wavering with the poor connection as the dog nuzzled under her armpit for attention. She looked too thin, and her eyes were darker than normal. They hadn’t been in the same time zone for ten months. “Of course they do that,” she said. “What did he think would happen?” “City boy,” Morgan explained. Not much later, the new guy was discharged after trying to slit his bunkmate’s throat with a butter knife he had squirreled away from DFAC. It scared Morgan, not because he had watched as the new guy crept forward on his toes, arm extended, knife in his fist to press it to tender sleeping skin. Nor because it could have been his throat with the cold metal against it. It scared him to death because Morgan understood the desire for an escape by any means far better than heshould.
------------------------- Lacey N. Dunham's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in _Ploughshares (online), McSweeney's Internet Tendency,_ _Midwestern Gothic, The Other Stories, The Collagist, _and _Full Stop,_ among others. The editor of five anthologies of writing which have received recognition in the _New York Times, _the _Washington Post, _and NPR, she is currently Fiction Editor at _Necessary Fiction _and directs literary education programming for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation_._ She is a first-generation college graduate originally from the Midwest and now lives in Washington, DC. __October 22, 2019 / __RobRussell / __Comment
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October 17, 2019
OXEYE DAISY — JENNIFER LANG October 17, 2019 / RobRussell
You confront him, hands on hips, say, _So, did you enjoy that? _and he asks what and you say, _Your 80th birthday party, a little belated? _But he doesn’t realize it’s belated, having lost track of time, no longer able to recall the day he was born. All the guests—your sorority sisters, his fraternity brothers, your friends from Lawyers’ Wives, his from high school across the Bay Bridge—gone, leaving only the two of you in the reception room still awash in UC Berkeley colors with blue-and-gold mini basketballs and plastic cheerleading pom-poms you placed on every table, and me: your second child, only daughter, grown woman with still unanswered why-questions. He tells you it was nice and you say, _Good_! your voice implying more along the lines of _Good because I planned it by myself! _or_ Good because it’s my turn next year and someone better do the same for me!_ when he leans in, toward you, while I lurk in the doorway, putting presents in bags, observing as you lean in, toward him, hearing his _I love you_ and a loud smack, followed by your _I love you, too,_ making me wince. I get your fifty-nine years of marriage cemented by two children, nine grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and adventures on every continent but can’t get beyond all the other buts. But his quarter-century betrayal. But your rash decision to stay together. But his diagnosis. Last but of all: your ensuing rage, ending in I-can’t-deal-with-him-anymore-so-I’m-moving-out at age seventy-eight. Honestly, you behave like a sixth-grade girl, plucking flower petals on a daily basis, altering the words _I love him-I love him not_ as I stand, a witness, wondering how to solve the pronoun problem: who is really losing whose mind here—him, you, or me. ------------------------- American born, French by marriage, Israeli by choice, Jennifer Lang writes mostly about her divided self. Her essays have appeared in _Under the Sun, Ascent, Hippocampus, Full Grown People_ and on _Brevity_’s One-Minute Memoir podcast. Honors include Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays nominations and finalist in 2017 _Crab Orchard Review_'s Literary Nonfiction Contest. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Raanana, where she founded Israel Writers Studio and serves as Assistant Editor at _Brevity_. Find her at http://israelwriterstudio.com/ and follow her @JenLangWrites. __October 17, 2019 / __RobRussell / __Comment
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