fiction 6/7

Jun 27, 202210 min read

"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...

"The Devil Comes as a Mother, a Sister, a Daughter, a Friend" by Steve Passey

Jun 27, 20228 min read

fiction

"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, 20223 min read

fiction

"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...

"All Our Known Yesterdays" by Victoria Leigh Bennett

Jun 12, 202213 min read

fiction

"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, 202215 min read

sci-fi

"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, 20221 min read

fiction

"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...

"Mitchell Doesn't Like a Mess" by Margo Griffin

May 29, 20222 min read

fiction

"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...

"Muted Voices" & "Hitchhiking to Oblivion" by Tim Frank

May 15, 20226 min read

fiction

"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, 20225 min read

fiction

"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, 20228 min read

humor

"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, 202215 min read

fiction

"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, 20226 min read

fiction

"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, 20227 min read

fiction

"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, 202221 min read

short fiction

"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, 20226 min read

fiction

"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, 202211 min read

fiction

"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, 20223 min read

short fiction

"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, 20224 min read

short fiction

"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, 20224 min read

fiction

"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, 20223 min read

fiction

"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....