"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...
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- 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...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 21 min
"Rich Girls" by Melissa Flores Anderson
I noticed Eve first at the Bad Ass Café in Dublin in Temple Bar. She sat across from me and I thought she looked a lot like my favorite...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 6 min
"Forge Avenue, 1999" by Edie Meade
We’d split remainders of bottom-shelf half-gallons between the six of us at Jason’s and it wasn’t until after 11:30 we realized we needed...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 11 min
"Lanes" by Sadie Maskery
Today was cold but bright, the October sun low on the horizon and bouncing rainbows from the car windscreens. The children were laughing...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 3 min
"The Dead Parts" by Margo Griffin
Discovering that most supermarket, free-range turkeys primarily congregate in overcrowded, dirty sheds, Evie bought herself a free-range...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 4 min
"Lady and Child" by Lorraine Murphy
My neck aches from gazing at the clear glass ceiling in the Grand Gallery but I don’t know what else to do. I’ve studied every detail of...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 4 min
"Goodbye, Stella Polaris" by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury
There was no light in the sky. True, scientists never expected the pole star to go supernova, and yet it so unceremoniously blinking out...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 3 min
"A Character Study" by Francois Bereaud
Angie has a small part in my unpublished novel. Her daughter, Mindy, is the catalyst in the novel and the second protagonist as it were....
- Jan 2, 2022
- 8 min
"All the Salt in the Sea" by Steve Passey
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. - H....
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
"My Famous Bed Story" by Robert Fromberg
Back when I used to tell my famous bed story, I told it slowly. In my mind, its events needed to undulate like a flag filmed in slow...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 6 min
"Himself to Himself" by Mike Hickman
It was the same every time it happened, Al thought, as he pulled on the gloves. After the bodies had been uncovered or the evidence...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 4 min
"Stay Red" by Nikki Williams
Alex kept digging until her forearms were on fire. She crouched down, clawing through layers of hats, purses, belts, wishing she’d worn...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"Polka-Dot Scarf" by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
April was wearing a polka-dot scarf at the picnic where she fell in love. She untied the scarf and swirled it in the air to announce her...
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