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"White Knight" by Melissa Flores Anderson
  • 2 days ago
  • 13 min
short fiction

"White Knight" by Melissa Flores Anderson

Gwen picked up the levee trail behind the high school after the early morning rain stopped. She hadn’t put in contacts in the rush to...
"A Question of Life" by DJ Tyrer
  • 2 days ago
  • 4 min
short fiction

"A Question of Life" by DJ Tyrer

“This is most irregular. Most irregular, indeed.” The judge pushed his tiny glasses up his nose and looked at the petitioning lawyer....
"Smokey and that Damn Mouth of His" by Wayne McCray
  • 2 days ago
  • 7 min
short fiction

"Smokey and that Damn Mouth of His" by Wayne McCray

The screen door burst open. Erlene, a black pony-tailed girl, ran through the house until she reached the kitchen. "Nana, come see!...
"Banged-Up Grill" by Sy Holmes
  • May 15
  • 6 min
short fiction

"Banged-Up Grill" by Sy Holmes

Assistant Professor of Botany Dr. Sylvia Anderson woke me up at 2 AM and told me she had to get going. I lit a cigarette on my front step...
  • Apr 17
  • 8 min
short fiction

"The Mutt" by James Jenkins

Ronnie hung over a sea of green. The pain in his lower back non-existent. A combination of deep concentration and self-medication. The...
  • Mar 20
  • 15 min
fiction

"The Center of Gravity" by Steve Passey

CW: suicide After the fire, even as the rain comes, a man will most miss what he never had. A service had cleaned his condominium...
  • Feb 21
  • 21 min
short fiction

"Rich Girls" by Melissa Flores Anderson

I noticed Eve first at the Bad Ass Café in Dublin in Temple Bar. She sat across from me and I thought she looked a lot like my favorite...
  • Feb 6
  • 3 min
short fiction

"The Dead Parts" by Margo Griffin

Discovering that most supermarket, free-range turkeys primarily congregate in overcrowded, dirty sheds, Evie bought herself a free-range...
  • Feb 6
  • 4 min
short fiction

"Lady and Child" by Lorraine Murphy

My neck aches from gazing at the clear glass ceiling in the Grand Gallery but I don’t know what else to do. I’ve studied every detail of...
  • Feb 6
  • 16 min
short fiction

"A Field of Snow" by Victoria Leigh Bennett

Andrew Martin looked out at the post-New Year’s snow and thought of all the New Year’s he had passed happily: first with family, then...
  • Jan 2
  • 7 min
short fiction

"Morning Rounds" by Edward Belfar

No, you didn’t wake me. Nobody here got any sleep last night. There’s a woman down the hall who spent most of the night screaming. She...
  • Dec 19, 2021
  • 3 min
short fiction

"My Famous Bed Story" by Robert Fromberg

Back when I used to tell my famous bed story, I told it slowly. In my mind, its events needed to undulate like a flag filmed in slow...
  • Oct 31, 2021
  • 8 min
short fiction

"A Song for the Apocalypse" by Kellie Scott-Reed

Somehow, I knew the end would come slowly. The luxury and mercy of a catastrophic event that obliterated billions of years of evolution...

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