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Short Fiction

Emotions Portrait Humor 4 min Mature Audience

Where I See Myself in 150 Years or Less

Working toward sainthood this summer solved some of my problems. For one, my daily-Mass-going mother got off my back about getting a job and moving out permanently. Plus, it gave her something to brag ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Love & Loss 4 min Mature Audience

Knitting for Leo

Alex Grehy

My mother taught me to knit.

Back then, knitting was a necessity, not some artisan craft like it is today. She would get patterns from women's magazines and cheap wool from the market. She ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Portrait Nostalgia 2 min Mature Audience

She Don't Fade

Die Booth

There's a ghost in my house. I hear her singing.
A little girl. Why is it always a little girl?
The light through the window is barely enough to see by, but the sky outside is very pale. Clouds ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Suspense & Mystery 1 min Mature Audience

For Seven Years

Thomas Elson

Each morning his face flushed as he remembered the boy's words, "I want that shovel. It's just like yours." And each morning he fell to his knees, extended his arms, then plunged his hands into the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Slice of Life Portrait Nostalgia 5 min Mature Audience

Sins and Secrets

Michael Riordan

He had earned the stamp of "loser" in his father-in-law's eyes. Worse, he was less a man to his wife Jean. When a possum tried to move in a few months after they purchased their little two-bedroom ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Quirky Humor 5 min Mature Audience

The Break

AJ Rocca

Jude always ordered hot coffee when he was falling apart. He leaned back in his booth and pressed his hands into the porcelain, trying to drink in the heat through cold fingertips. He couldn't taste ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Portrait Slice of Life Joy 4 min

Blue Glass Dog

Heather Santo

After I left Tom, I rented a house next to a cemetery. My mother offered to help me move. Standing in the gravel lot where I parked my car, she regarded the one-story clapboard partially hidden in ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Quirky Sorrow Magical Realism 5 min

Plum Tree

L N Hunter

I saw them once, when I was little. Maybe age four or five.
The tree on the other side of the fence had branches stretching over our garden. It was too tall for me to reach the succulent, juicy ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Portrait Historical Sorrow 4 min Mature Audience

My Friend Matty

FC Pierce

My friend Matty believed he could fly. "I have the cape and everything," he told me one afternoon. We were playing knights and dragons in his backyard when he pointed to the roof.

"You want to ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Slice of Life Sorrow Love & Loss 5 min

The Girl Who Liked Cats

Dave Cuzzolina

Harold Gates slowed the snow-topped yellow taxi and edged it along the slushy curb to a stop where she stood, shivering in a tattered wool coat in a January blizzard on the steps of her unlit ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Quirky Humor Absurd 3 min

Solomon's Lines

Jesse Richmond

Fred tiptoed into his room and slid into his desk chair, casting a worried glance over his shoulder as he opened his laptop. Typing as quietly as he could, he logged onto Artium Obscurorum and ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Portrait Sorrow 4 min

Comfort

Zachary Kellian

The kitten-shaped egg timer on the corner of the mattress beeps and they switch positions. Now she is cradling him. His head rests on her slender left arm; her right arm she drapes around his waist ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Quirky Humor 5 min

The Night Library

E. E. King

I heard it before I saw it, a jingling of bells like the soundtrack to a corny Christmas movie. Then out of the mist rolled a small carriage, round and bright as a converted pumpkin. Florescent ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Portrait Nostalgia Suspense & Mystery 5 min

Glacial Motion

Seymour Aab

August brought with it a new easy-swallow scheme by a new self-improvement mentor. Luna Rojas had measured out her life with the likes of them – detoxes, spiritual awakenings, fad diets. She craved ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Portrait 3 min Mature Audience

Disappearing Acts

Erin Kirsh

When she left, Anita took Mom's valise, the round one with the wooden handle from Eaton's department store. Mom was furious. She'd had it on hold at the store for weeks while she earned enough to ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Modern Love Love & Loss 4 min

Bargaining

Lyle Enright

I remember when my world divided into male and female, when the girls screamed "Shaun has cooties!" across the playground and flushed with what I thought was anger. I remember being in a closet with ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Slice of Life Joy 5 min

A Happy Color

Lynn Assimacopoulos

Jake lay in the darkness, the sun creeping under the shade...thinking why should he get out of bed. He had no place to go, no one to see and nobody would be coming to visit. He probably wouldn't ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Sorrow Portrait 2 min

Inheritance

Susannah Cate

Joan feels remorse for having hated her toes most of her life. She inherited them from her grandmother, who had hated them too. Her grandmother had cried at the swimming pool on Joan's 11th birthday ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Slice of Life Portrait Sorrow 3 min

Out of Reach

Julie Wilkerson

He was reaching for the top shelf then stopped. He moved his eyes to the next, lower shelf down and chose a jar. His hair was sheet white and his body frame resembled my father, tall and heavy set ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Where I See Myself in 150 Years or Less

Knitting for Leo

She Don't Fade

For Seven Years

Sins and Secrets

The Break

Blue Glass Dog

Plum Tree

My Friend Matty

The Girl Who Liked Cats

Solomon's Lines

Comfort

The Night Library

Glacial Motion

Disappearing Acts

Bargaining

A Happy Color

Inheritance

Out of Reach