"Finding Serenity" by Micah Muldowney
She looks spent. The coldness of the light has saturated her skin and her eyes and even her hair. They look dull and flat and hard like...
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Oct 1325 min read
"Fledgling" by Mat Lebowitz
It was her, Clara Hart. It had been nearly fifteen years since I had seen her, but the name returned with the impact of a reckoning. She...
Sep 304 min read
"Cinnamon Toast Crunch Niblings" by T.L. Tomljanovic
Koltyn liked Cinnamon Toast Crunch best. It turned him into a giant, grinding dozens of tiny pieces of toast between his teeth, savoring...
Sep 3014 min read
"The Ludologist" by Jack Whelan
Lewis Vern was a self-proclaimed ludologist—that is, he claimed to know all things games. To his credit, he had mastered four different...
Sep 314 min read
"The Festa of Santa Marija" by Sara Sheldrake
On a breathless night in Malta, light fragmented by bedroom shutters pries Maria’s eyes open. She leaves her empty bed. The church bells...
Aug 187 min read
"My Clawfoot Tub" by Sloan Sprau
I’ve figured out that if I run the bath for 10 minutes on full heat and two minutes ice-cold, the water in my clawfoot tub will reach the...
Aug 414 min read
"Thirty Broken Birds" by Michelle R. Brady
I. Quest Before what happened to Christine, before arriving in Iraq, before even leaving Nebraska, all we knew for sure was that there...
Jul 217 min read
"Day of Connection" by Joey Hedger
There were plans for a party at Ava’s place to celebrate the moment when the continents would converge, when land would finally touch...
Jul 74 min read
"The Microwave Clock is Unreliable" by Richard A Shury
There’s nothing I’m more sick of than the reliable tick of my grandmother’s grandfather clock, standing watch as it does over a living...
Jun 2356 min read
"Rose of Sterling" by Gary Campanella
Part 1: Down by the Lake "Hey Tin Man, you think I could walk across that lake?" "I don't think the ice is thick enough, Rose." "No....
Jun 92 min read
"Skinnymalink Melodeonlegs Big Banana Feet" by Sophie Thompson
I’ll never forget his face, wide open to the harsh light of the screen, drinkin’ it all in. At’s why it happened, Da said. He was all...
May 2713 min read
"Mr. Nakamura" by M.E. Proctor
We are, by nature, oddballs. Call us weird, extraordinary, freaky. Monsters. I will not dispute or argue the label. From the perspective...
May 125 min read
"Try Again" by Brian Greene
Claire was Chris’s new roommate. Chris was after me to try dating her. Chris and I had been friends for about 12 years by then. We were...
May 412 min read
"The God Hole" by Dave McNamara
Trixie had been writing for 10 years before she finally got published. It was a long slog, with dozens and dozens of bad short stories, a...
Feb 1811 min read
"From the Rubble" by M.E. Proctor
My friend reminded me of a house fallen in disrepair. The slanting roof, the peeling paint, the gutters hanging loose. It can take ten...
Feb 42 min read
"How to get safely home from Taronga Zoo" by Elisa Dominique Rivera
First, don’t even be at the zoo during a forecasted storm even though your mum guilted you into taking your Tita, her not-so-favourite...
Feb 43 min read
"Poseidon has a Party and Wakes Hungover" by Joyce Bingham
The dried crunch of seaweed brought a crowd of swarming flies, the buzzing intermingled with gull calls. The tang of salt and iodine...
Feb 464 min read
"The Devil's Breath" by Wade Pavlick
Excerpt from letter dated January 13, 1957: … I’ve been haunted from the moment I arrived in this place. It’s different here, away from...
Jan 73 min read
"The Ruins at Quevdo" by L. A. Ballesteros Gentile
In the center of Old Town, where the ruins of Quevdo are located, there’s a top that’s been spinning for as long as anyone can remember....
Jan 712 min read
"Dark Wave" by Barbara Byar
After disco. Before AIDS. There was Joe. Joe wasn’t a model though he could have been. Northern Italian, he looked more Austria than...
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