"Eternal Recurrence on Endless Loop, Over and Over Again" by Steve Passey
Vanessa logged out and picked up her keys. Garrett, a “team leader” was leaning into the next cubicle and his lower body was blocking her...
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- Oct 2, 2022
- 25 min
"Against the Current" by Brittany Ackerman
I dress in the dark every morning for school. I don't want to wake up Lanny, who makes his own schedule for his marketing business that...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 4 min
“Serving Sushi” by Tim Frank
A small crowd of England soccer fans nursed plastic cups of local German beer while singing God Save the Queen. A couple of hours before...
- Sep 18, 2022
- 9 min
"For Girl X With Love James Wu" by Christine Kwon
He stood outside the Guggenheim, panicking. The light was about to change and his thoughts raced down 5th Avenue like a yellow taxi. God,...
- Aug 21, 2022
- 5 min
"Fraud" by Clyde Liffey
I sit at my desk, a nice one – yellow wood, not in the best condition but well-made – and think, “I’m a fraud.” This has nothing to do...
- Jul 24, 2022
- 10 min
"Oxen at the Well" by Ted Morrissey
Where could she be? It was snowing. Hard. And his sister was somewhere in the storm. Papa went to fetch the doctor—Mama’s baby was...
- Jul 10, 2022
- 8 min
"Tupperware Can Do Almost Anything" by Julia Halprin Jackson
“Believe it or not,” I say, hoisting the ice chest over my head, “I cannot control the river.” “Yeah, whatever,” Samantha says. “Just get...
- Jun 27, 2022
- 10 min
"Facing the Music" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
Esther was beginning to see what had happened. What had happened to the day; what had happened to the sun outside on the rooftop deck...
- Jun 27, 2022
- 8 min
"The Devil Comes as a Mother, a Sister, a Daughter, a Friend" by Steve Passey
Tom says there is an old man named Scotty and that Scotty has seen the Devil. Tom tells this to the new hire. You ask him, Tom says, and...
- Jun 12, 2022
- 3 min
"Fancy Nancy" by Lorraine Murphy
Fancy Nancy. That’s what Mammy calls me when I wear this red dress with black velvet trimming; the one Grandad bought it for me in...
- Jun 12, 2022
- 13 min
"All Our Known Yesterdays" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
NOTE TO THE READERS: This mild vintage horror is a tribute to the contribution of the form made by Rod Serling, the television host of...
- Jun 12, 2022
- 15 min
"Glow In The Dark" by Jake Williams
Henry and Laura collapsed on the nearest boulder. They were panting and baked in the day’s sweat. Their lungs burned with a day of...
- Jun 12, 2022
- 1 min
"Electric Blue" by Rachel Canwell
She is assaulted by the morning sky. A sky masquerading as a robin’s egg, skimming rooftops, touching cracked and shifting slates with...
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
"Mitchell Doesn't Like a Mess" by Margo Griffin
We don’t hear the door or his footsteps over the music and our laughter. “Oh, for fucks sake,” Mitchell says after walking through the...
- May 15, 2022
- 6 min
"Muted Voices" & "Hitchhiking to Oblivion" by Tim Frank
CW: violence and suicide Muted Voices Chris, the boss of ‘Wheels-to-the-Future’, a failing wheelchair sales company, organises an online...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 5 min
"The Honeymoon" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
The divan in the posh fitting room wasn’t the place to have a good cry, though the even posher attendants were used to brides,...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 8 min
"I Could Have Been a Tallboy" by Mike Hickman
Tallboys, Tony told me, came in dove grey and Chantilly grey and London oak and Rutland oak and more varieties than most people might...
- Mar 20, 2022
- 15 min
"The Center of Gravity" by Steve Passey
CW: suicide After the fire, even as the rain comes, a man will most miss what he never had. A service had cleaned his condominium...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 6 min
"Following T-Rex" by Wayne McCray
CW: violence My uncle was a terrible man. It's a statement I won't take back. He has seen and been through some things, you know. Any...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 7 min
"The Golden Ocean" by Victoria Leigh Bennett
Elisabeth stood within the bounds of the cupola and looked out to sea. The storm was beginning to rage full-tilt now, abusive and...
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