1.) Wake up. It is important to first wake up. Set your alarm for 4:59 a.m., but wake up at 4:58 a.m. This will establish your dominance...

"This has gone far enough,” snapped Maurice Sterling, head editor of The Story Quarterly (TSQ). He paced back and forth in the editors’...

When it Comes to Breakfast, I Don’t Tread Lightly. I am Naked, Alone, and Locked in my Bathroom Eating Forkfuls of Frosting. For the past...

Diana parked in front of the abandoned house and made her way inside. She carefully opened the loose-hanging door and walked over creaky...

Ceremony for a mouse not long gone I can see the ghost of an outline through my mostly closed eyes. The light is still grey. She touches...

“They’re here again. Alfred! Can you bloody believe it?” I twitch open the curtains, “The girl is licking the walls, does nobody teach...

The eyes of the two brothers met across the crowded room; each glancing briefly at the other, an unbridgeable chasm of two lives gone in...

At first it was just Starbucks but then the old ones discovered the independent coffee shops. There were so many new patrons that the...

Greetings! Tis I penning this missive neath a wretchedly dark and dusty blanket. Little Arnold rests on my lap, as I endeavor to hold him...

I got a message from you last night. It said you felt a lot of crazy ways that I didn’t know you felt, and it said a lot more than that....

“All I have to do is put on a bear costume and march for two hours?” Jen asked. “Yes.” The casting agent on the other end of the phone...

I (23F) am looking for a ghost (M/F/NB, 21-99 at time of death, dead for <50 years) to haunt a 3-bedroom 3rd-floor apartment in Flatbush....

I told her not to run, that it wouldn’t hurt. It’s just a tooth and, also, it’s for science. I told her we’d put it under the pillow,...

The late Trinidadian author’s ghost has lately been observed hovering around the merry colored-creations of several well-meaning white...

Harris Caldwell—retired public defender; amateur woodworker; frequent apple juice drinker; thrice-a-day tooth brusher—died just now in...

We talk a lot about process—not outcome—and trying to consistently take all the best information you can and consistently make good...

I've been stacking rocks. Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary—I don't know. We learned that in school last year, yes, sure, but I don't...

I remember my ninth birthday like it was yesterday, because I woke up that morning, and I started to wonder when my mom and dad would...

All the Single Women were invited to the pilot program of HappilyEverAfter where the newly invented HomoSapiens module would spit out...

Hunger doesn't always jive with common sense. I guess that's why I went out into a February blizzard to the grocery store when it would...