"Return to Work" by Deepti Nalavade Mahule
Rush hour morning traffic on a weekday with the freeway resembling a parking lot. On the passenger seat of a car: a work bag, a lunch bag...
top of page
Jul 214 min read
"Cahoots" by David Henson
For their fifth anniversary, Melinda suggests she and her husband, Martin, spice things up by parking in a secluded lane by the lake. The...
Jul 214 min read
"Hurley's House" by M. Rose Seaboldt
“It’s perfect!” Johnny Hurley and Robbie Decker stood in front of a small, rundown house that was surrounded by overgrown weeds and...
Jul 211 min read
"Irreversible" by John Szamosi
After listening to a speech on injustice, Cannon Fodder decided to petition the Council to turn him back into young people. He went to...
Jul 212 min read
"Pronunciation is Everything" by Laura Cooney
The Westwood Crochet Club had been running in the town of Newbattle Hove for decades. The three founding members had done no more than...
Jul 72 min read
"Dreki" by Kathy Hoyle
Marta stares into the fissure, flinching as the heat blisters her cheeks. Her boy, Kristjan, has been missing for eleven days now, ever...
Jul 71 min read
"Best Intentions" by Megan Hanlon
When heavy rains come, the driveways and sidewalks flood with earthworms. Long, skinny, pink ones; fat, short brown ones. Together but...
Jul 72 min read
"Suppose Gertrude" by Graham Robert Scott
Suppose Gertrude, instead of saying yes, answers no. Oh, she thinks it through, in a long silence that go-between Polonius fills with...
Jul 74 min read
"God on the Highway" by Swetha Amit
It was dark and rainy on the highway. Raindrops trickled on the windshield. Ma periodically put the wipers on. The roads were filled with...
Jul 72 min read
"Beyond (1988)" by David Yourdon
My grandfather went on a fishing trip in the country around New Paltz. “He caught nine rainbow trout!” There was pride and a vestige of...
Jul 72 min read
"For someone better at small talk" by Karen Walker
For someone better at small talk it would've been as easy as pie to delight while standing in line at the bakery behind a woman and a...
Jul 72 min read
"Top Cat" by Mary Anne Mc Enery
A black cat with piercing yellow eyes leaped out the window of a suburban house, shattering glass in his wake. "Great entrance,...
Jul 74 min read
"The Neighbourhood Watch" by Mathew Gostelow
CW: Violence When the beatings began, I wondered if I should intervene. But we were waiting for our new fridge to be delivered, and that...
Jul 74 min read
"Roach" by Benjamin Ray Allee
There was a roach on Gracie’s upturned back when she woke. Her eyes opened to slivers of afternoon light cutting onto the sheets from her...
Jun 232 min read
"What the Serial Killer Said" by Arthur Mandal
There’s a brand of packaged dates called ‘Deri Dates’. Tesco does them. Allow me a moment to express the disgust and repulsion this...
Jun 233 min read
"The Night Jane Didn’t Come Out of The Chair" by Kate Faigen
“When I saw you in half tonight,” Dustin said through beef-jerky breath, “I think I’m actually gonna saw you in half.” Jane smirked,...
Jun 231 min read
"In the Gynecologist’s Waiting Room, Aunt Flo Reads Female Frogs and Dragonflies May Feign Death to Avoid Mating" by Mikki Aronoff
When Jake’s home randy from trucking and candy, Flo’s amphibious—a moist, round thing. She sticks her skinny limbs out rigid—her rigor...
Jun 232 min read
"The Over-Rated Importance of Sound" by Foster Trecost
We moved on Tuesday but didn’t unpack right away. Mom said the boxes made it look like we had more furniture so we left them taped up and...
Jun 233 min read
"True romance" by Sandra Arnold
When Chloe came home from school she spotted another pile of romance novels by the side of her mother’s chair. She picked one up from the...
Jun 234 min read
"Killer" by Brandon Doughty
He came to in an instant, like someone flipped a breaker. Sitting up, he looked around wondering where he was. This thought led him to...
bottom of page