"Love Has Rules" by Francine Witte
Love Has Rules And you can’t change ‘em. I told this to Harley again and again. Been this way forever, I’d say. He’d ignore me, but still...
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- Mar 6, 2022
- 7 min
"Pelvis", " Tupelo", and "The Unexploded Bomb" by Kieran Wyatt
Pelvis I’m wiping Mrs. Carleton’s backside when she tells me she has a secret. ‘You won’t believe it,’ she says. I help her to stand,...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
"Big Top" by Cath Barton
It was the brightness of it I saw first, red and yellow radiating stripes, forming and dissolving in front of my eyes as we galloped...
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
"The Woman Who Needed to Run" by Emma McEvoy
She pulls on her running shoes and slips unnoticed out the back door, down the rain-slicked path, and through the garden gate where she...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
"After Dinner She Came Up" by Julia Ruth Smith
She was not what I’d been expecting; not less but somehow not quite enough. She was a stunner, slim waist, cross-legged now on the rug; a...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
"When She Set the Alarm for Two" by Jenny Wong
Luna and John sat side by side, a pair of clocks unwound into stillness. Their faces stared forward. Backs leaned up against a cracked...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 4 min
"Possession" by Karen Lethlean
His first big mistake was telling me. You gotta love over-sharing in the office. Left himself wide open, Gaz did. Never let a chance go...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
"The Christmas Concert, Front Row" by Rachel Canwell
I am in the church hall when those first notes begin. Like crystallised raindrops landing in a pail. Your song. Familiar, unexpected,...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 3 min
"Monologue Intérieur" by Chakrika
I feel like Pluto. That is to say I feel for it. Amidst days that have been like a sore, numb limb, I have only experienced a sensation...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 4 min
"Shallow waters" by B F Jones
They get drenched between the cab and the front door. Quick Daddy! The twins laugh-scream, wetter by the second as he fumbles for his...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 1 min
"Never wake your sleeping hero" by Kik Lodge
Never wake your sleeping hero because he’s probably dream-drooling over the hottie he’s with in Gala, coconut oiling her bum cheeks, and...
- Jan 2, 2022
- 3 min
"The Camel" by Margo Griffin
Forever relegated to the role of the elder and more responsible child, I delivered almost every sibling disaster headline to my mother....
- Jan 2, 2022
- 2 min
"Men Who Cross the Border" by Francois Bereaud
It happens on a Thursday. The morning offers the usual odors: armpits, assholes, instant coffee, and cheap cigarettes dominate, but,...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"The Rest is Lost" by Julia Ruth Smith
It was a toffee door, open for everyone, closed after midnight. There was family and dogs on the staircase; coffee-drop lozenges going up...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"Created" by Sky Sprayberry
The reports of my creation were greatly exaggerated. Everyone believed that Prometheus carefully crafted me from clay, that Athena...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"Inked Lines" by Rachel Canwell
She pushes her hip against his. Slender teenage hips, denim-clad and barely there. She can feel a burn beneath the fabric, chafing on her...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
"Games night" by Bonnie Meekums
I laid it out very carefully this time. I didn’t want to lose any pieces, just in case everyone turned up. Last time, there was only me...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
"Obsessionals" by Epi Rogan
At first, He was charming and kind. Then things started to happen, That made me think, He’s not right in the head. He was becoming...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 4 min
"Snapshot" by Kellie Scott-Reed
“God makes you hopeful at 19, at 20, so you have the fire to go out and reproduce; the foolishness to believe the world is a place worth...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 6 min
"Vessel" by Tiffany M Storrs
She always carried her basket the way they carried water in the old days, perched high on her shoulder like a vessel. He vaguely...
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