Kathleen Alcott

Kathleen Alcott is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the short story collection Emergency. Her work has also appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, and The Best American Short Stories.

A computer rendering depicts a squiggly smoke-shaped ice cube with red eyes and an anxious grin and suspended marajuana leaves that rests on some grass.

Sky High

Kathleen Alcott

September 11, 2023

Issue no. 70

Stoned Pizza is a portal to an otherworldly catatonia.

A swirl of vibrant and deeply pigmented watercolors bleed into each other to form a sky, with a very small stick figure walking along the horizon at the bottom of the frame.

Part of the Country

Kathleen Alcott

July 10, 2023

Issue no. 69

Hadn’t it closed too quickly, the window of freedom?