Emotions - page 4 - all works

Short Fiction

Emotions Suspense & Mystery Quirky Portrait 2 min Mature Audience

Trespassing—a Criminal Offense

The dryad who lives inside the oak tree has been terrorizing the condo building dwellers for generations. She throws acorns and pours sap and drops pollen on their cars, and causes severe allergies ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Love & Loss 5 min

Bar Lines

Kris Loughlin

The first time it really hits me, I'm staring at the peeling paint on the doorknob.
I long ago memorized the feeling of coming home – the click of my key in the door, the scent of Mom's stir fry on ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor 2 min Mature Audience

The Men in the Woods

Daniel Wallace

The men who live in the woods behind my house had been getting out of hand for some time. They were all in their mid-fifties, golfers formerly, and meat eaters -- jolly men in general -- but since ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Slice of Life 5 min Mature Audience

Holiday Fling

Nancy Coulter

I was licking salt from the rim of my glass when Asli told me that elderly pelicans are often blind. She claimed that the force generated from smacking the water during a dive (and the fact that ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Quirky Absurd 4 min Mature Audience

Captured by the Dragon Cult

Laurence Raphael Brothers

Probably I shouldn't have looked in that NO ADMITTANCE HIGH VOLTAGE DANGER OF DEATH door. I was loitering on the ramp to the #7 subway train at Grand Central Station. I didn't want to go home to ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Portrait 4 min Mature Audience

God is Greater

AJ Rocca

"In their search for ‘devil's gold,' as they call it, about 300 miners make a daily climb two miles up the mountain, then head downward more than 900 yards into the volcano, where the sulfu ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Slice of Life 2 min Mature Audience

Always

Daniel Wallace

They went out for a coffee and then the next night went out for dinner and the next they didn't go anywhere but to her apartment where they had a massively wonderful night in bed. The sex was ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Portrait 3 min Mature Audience

Chaim's Golem

Avra Margariti

I got the idea from one of your old stories. Building golems out of river mud and whatnot. Except I didn't want a golem. I just wanted you back by my side.

Peddling clayware in the sweltering ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Portrait 4 min

Vitis Californica

Simone Martel

Emma pads through the living room, over the thick, ivory carpet, and settles on the chaise longue with her wineglass. As she tastes the cold white wine, her gaze falls to the fields on the valley ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Historical 5 min

Long Shadows

J. Anthony Hartley

I sat staring deep into the flames, listening to voices stirring the wind around me. Soft footfalls pressed through the grass stalks, rustling gently. Though I couldn't see them, I knew they were ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Sorrow Historical 3 min Mature Audience

Eggs

Andrew Stancek

Aunt Mila was the one collecting the eggs every morning but the chore is now mine. We have an extra daily egg since she has flown off and Grandma uses them to bake a cake every other day. Grandpa ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Romance 1 min Mature Audience

Just Enough for Jenny

Jennifer Shelby

While pulling lobster pots from the bay, Finn chanced upon the mermaid. His mind was on Jenny, dark with worry, when the mermaid appeared alongside his boat. An old friend once told him of a legend ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Love & Loss 1 min Mature Audience

Curious Facts About Octopuses (And You and I)

Avra Margariti

1. Octopuses have nine brains.
Me? I wouldn't want so many organs with which to overthink and fly into hysterics. You always ran from those—took the car and left me alone for hours, sometimes ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Magical Realism 2 min

Some Weather

Aliceanna Stopher

It was one of those thunderstorms came on sudden-like. Before a body could cover its head it had passed on someplace else. Here, in our holler, we were used to such storms. We liked the surprise of ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Magical Realism 5 min Mature Audience

The Orb

Sarah Rose Etter

We're always asking for too much in this office. First it was raspberries. Now it is kiwis. The kiwis roll around on the table in our office kitchen then rot.
At work, I sit on the second floor of ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Joy Nostalgia Slice of Life 2 min Mature Audience

The Intersection of Humanity and Insanity

Abby Comey

The stoplight on the corner had been broken for weeks. Westway Avenue was yellow and green at the same time, while Cherry Lane was forever red. Mabel knew this. Mom and Dad called it "the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Suspense & Mystery 4 min Mature Audience

Truth, Justice, and the American Way

Cathy Tenzo

Once you become visible, it's hard to disappear into the shadows again, but Hank White was doing his level best. His life depended on it. People looked right through you when you were flipping ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Slice of Life 2 min

Guilty Treasure

Ana Carolina Pereira

It's a sunny Sunday afternoon —celebratory day: the sun hadn't visited your city's sky in ages— and you're out in the flea market. Browsing the offerings among the throng of people: old things, new ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Trespassing—a Criminal Offense

Bar Lines

The Men in the Woods

Holiday Fling

Captured by the Dragon Cult

God is Greater

Always

Chaim's Golem

Vitis Californica

Long Shadows

Eggs

Just Enough for Jenny

Curious Facts About Octopuses (And You and I)

Some Weather

The Orb

The Intersection of Humanity and Insanity

Truth, Justice, and the American Way

Guilty Treasure