Centaur Lit

Quarterly online literary journal dedicated to hybrid writing. Half poem, half story? Welcome home!

01/01/2026

“Accrding to my thrapist I’m so mssd-up that I mispel and mismach, but I read three studis that prov parasocial relaships can fufil emotional needs in ways tat mirrr traditonal ways.”
From "I can’t tell if I’m in lov with the travl vlogger" by Mandira Pattnaik
Read more at https://centaurlit.com/i-cant-tell-if-im-in-lov-with-the-travl-vlogger-by-mandira-pattnaik/
Art by Nayoun Kim, www.nayounkim.com, “The Centaur.”

12/28/2025

Please join Centaur in congratulating this year's Best Small Fictions nominees!

12/27/2025

“Home is the abandonment on Spruce street, a room for two occupied alone. It’s the room on Fairmount, strangers unbonded, a kiss on the couch and a drive to the beach.”
From "No Such Place" by Jennifer Markert
Read more at https://centaurlit.com/no-such-place-by-jennifer-markert/
Art by Nayoun Kim, www.nayounkim.com, “The Centaur.”

12/18/2025

“When the giant squid takes hold of you, suctioning the flow of oxygen to your brain, it skews the right side of your once-sassy mouth, forcing a look comical, confused.”
From "The Giant Squid" by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos
Read more at https://centaurlit.com/the-giant-squid-by-catherine-chiarella-domonkos/
Art by Nayoun Kim, www.nayounkim.com, “The Centaur.”

12/09/2025

“We girls dreamed of white weddings with red roses in Paris, trending colored diamond rings in pink gold, none of these heavy sets of cascading old-fashioned yellow gold chains. We girls swore we wouldn’t be living with the in-laws.”
From "Yellow" by Christine H. Chen
Read more at https://centaurlit.com/yellow-by-christine-h-chen/
Art by Nayoun Kim, www.nayounkim.com, “The Centaur.”

12/05/2025

Please join Centaur in congratulating this year's Best Microfiction nominees!

11/19/2025

Please join Centaur in congratulating this year's Pushcart nominees!

11/15/2025

“I imagined I’d shiver once more to the whispers of his fingers’ light strokes, like rustling silk, our torsos nudging then rubbing, never again do us part rising like birdsong from our long-parched throats.”
From "The Artist’s Wife Jumps Out the Window" by Mikki Aronoff
Read more at https://centaurlit.com/the-artists-wife-jumps-out-the-window-by-mikki-aronoff/
Art by Nayoun Kim, www.nayounkim.com, “The Centaur.”

11/02/2025

The fall 2025 issue of Centaur is live with writing by Mikki Aronoff, Christine H. Chen, Catherine Chiarella Domonkos, Jennifer Markert, Mandira Pattnaik, Beth Sherman, Sudha Subramanian, and Joel Tomfohr, and with art by Nayoun Kim, www.nayounkim.com, “The Centaur.”

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10/19/2025

“She has been drinking a cocktail of emotions as everything feels at once familiar and foreign—the affected voices on TV saying absurd things, the expectation that she should call an annoying acquaintance ‘uncle,’ the vague threat she feels of being ‘found out’ that she is holding a British passport.”
From “Fitting Room” by Jie Wang
Read more at https://centaurlit.com/fitting-room-by-jie-wang/

10/06/2025

“The widow’s eyes changed color like a chameleon, depending on her moods and what she wore, which was a thing I couldn’t get enough of. In the morning, they’d appear baby blue and naive—and in the late afternoon, wearing an orange silk scarf, they’d morph into a lurid emerald green. I could imagine her as a dangerously beautiful teenager, and I reached out my hand to her, wishing I had known her all my life.”
From “Color Permanence” by Meg Pokrass
Read at https://centaurlit.com/color-permanence-by-meg-pokrass/

09/24/2025

"In the overgrown field, I am lying in the wildflowers, cradled in Queen Anne’s Lace and honeysuckle, and asters and cornflowers, and looking up to the sky with the white fast clouds, and I feel the earth dance in a wild spin, and it makes me dizzy..."

From "Whiskey Mash" by Rina Palumbo

Read at https://centaurlit.com/whiskey-mash-by-rina-palumbo/

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