The Interstitial

Roman Newell

Dec 13

Spoiled Appetites

a.k.a. pastoral scenes of hardship

Dodge Zelko

Dec 13

The Everlasting Memory Machine

Part I: Can technology solve grief?

Phoebe Solomon

Dec 13

A Good Moon’s Daughter

A young girl adopted by The Cosmos finds a new way to live.

Beatrice Rose

Dec 12

Lost Somewhere Between 1955–2024

A story of what had been and will always be.

Clichepenname

Dec 12

Tired of People

And their gathering hands

Roman Newell

Dec 11

I Don’t Have It in Me: Finding Meaning in the Chaos of Life

Learning to embrace life’s chaos, beauty, and the questions we can’t answer

Ospersamantha

Dec 11

Ghosts that don’t know what to do with themselves

Tired of looking to be understood.

Catrina Prager

Dec 11

Snowfall at Nighttime

A lyrical prose.

Javeriah Khalid

Dec 10

I Remember the Way the Sea Shivered

Poem

Emris

Dec 10

Bird Seed

Sitting with my mother, flipping photo album pages

Dec 9

Dec 9

Windows to the Sea and Shadows of Ourselves

Seasons of reflection and the unfinished search for meaning

Andreea T. Felciuc

Dec 9

The fire that shines.

Not every fire is light. For light is truth, and fire can be treacherous. You think it illuminates, but it incinerates. — Victor Hugo

Black on white. Words from Mari

Dec 9

The Cardsman

Visitor to the house in the woods

Roman Newell

Dec 8

Falling Farther Behind

A story of a man in a styrofoam cup

Roman Newell

Dec 6

The Man Without Memories

A photograph, a gaze, and the blurred line between past and present

Andreea T. Felciuc

Dec 6

Broken Sky Played by Timorous Bird, for Her Lover

I have so much to tell, but you know too well, I wouldn’t dare

Dec 6

Dec 6

“The field,” I cried, alone. Out here all by myself.

Ospersamantha

Dec 6

Returning Home to Familiar Nothing

And trying again

Roman Newell

Dec 5

A Sun I Think About Throwing Away

But never do

Roman Newell

Dec 4

How Hard Should You Kiss a Woman?

A young boy’s question

Roman Newell

Dec 3

The Depth of Small Hours

A journey through silence and solitude

Dec 3

Dec 3

The Interstitial

The Interstitial strives to curate intelligent, insightful, and thought-provoking pieces about what it means to be human. We bring our readers a distilled view of the complexities, contradictions, and edges of humanity across all genres.

Black Ripples

Spoiled Appetites

The Everlasting Memory Machine

A Good Moon’s Daughter

Lost Somewhere Between 1955–2024

Tired of People

I Don’t Have It in Me: Finding Meaning in the Chaos of Life

Ghosts that don’t know what to do with themselves

Snowfall at Nighttime

I Remember the Way the Sea Shivered

Bird Seed

Glass Moth

Windows to the Sea and Shadows of Ourselves

The fire that shines.

The Cardsman

Falling Farther Behind

The Man Without Memories

Broken Sky Played by Timorous Bird, for Her Lover

When We Were Kids

The Field

Returning Home to Familiar Nothing

A Sun I Think About Throwing Away

How Hard Should You Kiss a Woman?

The Depth of Small Hours

Dog Days at Dusk