As the hopper rose in elevation, past the treeless hills that banked marshlands in waiting, past the serrated black mountains of shale...

As we enter the barn, I prepare myself to be hit by a stench, but I’m greeted by the aroma of a bakery. The interior shouts success. It’s...

“No, no, no,” he says to himself as he sits at the piano. If he could hear or see me, I’d assure him the song is going to be his...

Photo by Sarah Skinner Lori waited outside the HR office of Symtek Call Center. Her fingers turned pale as she squeezed the portfolio....

A very large drainage pipe was in the process of being installed in a particular location in the neighborhood in order to mitigate...

30th Street Station - Dunkin’ Todd approached the register clutching his guitar bag. He ordered an iced latte and small hash browns,...

Sometimes Esther put a towel around her head because nothing else worked. The noise and thrum of the city, the insistent beeping of...

Hemingway could not grab a shotgun and shoot himself. He lacked the arms to do so. His namesake would be horrified at the circumstances....

What do they mean? The staircase is here. First one foot on the step, then the other quickly slipping in behind. I'm ascending, not...

My name is Butch Kissimmee IV and I’m going to die soon. Soon is the operative word, as I have only just turned the big 8-0-0-0, well...

By lunchtime, Ollie had processed thirteen 1085 forms, seven 91B forms, and opened two new case files. He saved his current work (an 89C...

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....

“Hi, table for one, please?” The hostess looked up from her phone, startled. She could be new, Mark had never seen her before. “Oh!” She...

One future December morning Lin sits in the perfect coffee shop, secure from the relentless rain. There’s a good selection of drinks, hot...

“Well, Maurice, sunlight is canceled.” “I’ll add it to the list, Mr. Crush.” Craig Crush cast aside the tablet he had been reading from...

Each dab of the cotton ball diffused eye-watering powder into Nina’s face. Within minutes, pink makeup clouded the wall’s oval mirror....

Content warnings: escape and abduction, swearing, mention of terminal illness The ceiling glowed crimson as I sprinted down the hall. A...

An infant's preference to attend to events that are neither too simple nor too complex according to their current representation of the...

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

A curious little songbird cocks its head as I place a box of unopened letters on the Palladio stone table. It’s morning here at the...