FEATURE: “Oscarquiet” by Riley Passmore
SITUATION REPORT
On the morning of Monday, 03/05/2007, at 08:31am, Concealer MELISSA MARIE BENNET (Asset# OSCARQUIET) failed
FEATURE: “Eyes on the Side” by EJ Trask
Derailment, Alex thought, when he felt himself rise out of his train seat against his will.
The train shrieked and
FEATURE: “Acquisitions” by Sascha Goluboff
Tall and handsome with a mind for finance, Bryce Martin quickly made a name for himself in the Louisiana real-
FEATURE: The Poetry of Jennifer Ruth Jackson
Woodland of the Fair Folk
We were misled, through woods where boughs
of pine ate starlight from the ground. Our
FEATURE: The Poetry of E.G. Ware
A Hymn to the Mother-Sire
What hand first stirr’d the calculus of clay,
and bade the mineral think,
FEATURE: The Poetry of Melissa Shepherd
Sonnet for a Gravestone
Not for nothing would I kiss your chloral
corpse, grandmother—panic-flung near Fresh Kills
(before
SPRING 2026: Lyric and Elegy
Some of you have been with The Dread long enough to remember when this was a looser, less intentional space.
FEATURE: “The Journeyman of Suspicion” by Andy Mallory
You might find such a claim disagreeable, but what I contend is this: there exists an interminable impermanence to human
FEATURE: “the reader” by Christopher Woods
we heard he was coming
weeks before, when people
in the village heard from relatives
the other side of the
FEATURE: “When Satan Smiles” by Ramesh Gupta
When Satan Smiles
When slumber o’er-takes the steadfast state
of worried wakefulness;
when sleep comes silently and unshaken
