Emotions - page 6 - all works

Short Fiction

You Give Me Butterflies

There's nothing I love more than eating. Mmm, yes. Fat Boy loves a good meal. I enjoy the crunch, the squish, even the quietest sizzles as I grind every little particle between my molars. I cherish ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Portrait 5 min Mature Audience

Swimming Lessons

Rachel Malmin

The liftoff is like an elevator.

You know that feeling you get when you're going up? Like your stomach is getting left behind? It feels like that. Remember when we were kids and we were staying ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Quirky Portrait 5 min

Chimera

Nicholas Perilli

A woman who claimed to be a chimera called the library most Tuesdays, on the old line they never got around to disconnecting after the renovations. The call went straight to a yellowed phone hung on ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Portrait Magical Realism 3 min Mature Audience

Blueberry and Sky

Jessica Normile

There is no cheerful clatter of pans, or old Beatles records spinning in the living room. No warm cinnamon smell fills the air – only burnt coffee. For a moment, I'm half expecting Papa to swoop me ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Quirky Magical Realism 4 min

It Began With Bananas

Ty Fi

January 26, 1906

Forty-seven days have passed and the bananas in my kitchen are still green. They remain untouched and unmoved since I brought them home from market. To my eye they appea ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Portrait 3 min

Trampoline

Ulrica Hume

My new neighbor was a hoarder. She hoarded everything. Crystals, pink bakery boxes—she even took in children. Each one was flawed: too restless, not bright enough, a daisy-shaped head. The sound of ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Sci-Fi & Fantasy 4 min Mature Audience

Coping with Change

Susan O'Neal

The seventh day in my new flat, I found a worm in the fridge. It was flat, black and dead. I quite like interesting animals, but not this one – it looked remarkably like a leech. Where had it come ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Modern Love 2 min

Underground

Sara Wilson

It had been nearly fourteen years, but there you were on my morning commute. On your way to work like nothing had happened. Both of us on our ways to work as if nothing had happened.

You looked ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Romance 2 min Mature Audience

The Sunshine State

Laura Bates

Our new house really felt like a home, with cockroaches and two pit bulls and a palm tree and a chain-link fence. On that first day, I heated up a can of kidney beans for breakfast and ate it ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Quirky 2 min Mature Audience

Influx

Meredith Harper

The garbage can is full again. I drag it inside and empty it over the floor, adding to the foot of water already standing in the house. The bathtub and the sinks have been running nonstop fo ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Modern Love 4 min Mature Audience

Something to Save

Catherine Averill

On his way out the door to a meeting with a client, the husband said, "We should have a baby," and the wife, pointing to one of the windows that overlooked the driveway, said, "We already have an ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Romance Slice of Life 4 min

Noodles for Breakfast

Richard Risemberg

When you are a competent old man who lives alone, you can eat what you want for breakfast. This morning I had noodles, or rather noodle soup, a favorite of mine for colder weather. Broth with ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow 5 min Mature Audience

Call It What You Will

Donald Ryan

The doctors, explaining the consent form, referred to him as an allergen. That's the only reason he could figure they prescribed Claritin. Well, technically they didn't prescribe Claritin, being ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Slice of Life 3 min

The Job Interview: Thoughts and Prayers Accepted

Lori Shandle-Fox

"Voicemail. Faaabulous. Anyway... Good morning. I've arrived. And let me tell you: There's nothing like heading to a job interview and praying to God that you don't get it. (Oh this is Amelia by the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Historical Suspense & Mystery 5 min Mature Audience

Slomp

Mim Eichmann

Ain't no such word as "slomp" Jessey had scolded me just yesterday. But a crawdad pokin' outta the deep mud ditch alongside the river always made kind of a slomp sound to my ears. That's how you ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Humor Romance 5 min

The Blue Lady

Susan Ayotte

Melody jostled a dust-coated box into the backseat of her car. The box had remained untouched for the three years she'd been at Harvard. Why had she insisted on bringing it to law school? She'd just ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Nostalgia Sorrow Portrait 1 min

Exile

Sonia Warczincela

It was dangling there, hanging from a nail in the wall on a little copper-plated hemp string. It shone softly with a crystalline silver reflection, almost translucent. Sometimes, when through the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Sorrow Portrait Historical 2 min

Pitman

Hermann Sboniek

For a long time, I went to bed early, always reluctantly, grumbling, cursing, and dragging my feet. The time to go to bed was suffering, a break from life, a phase that nothing or no one would eve ... [+]

Short Fiction

Emotions Joy Romance 2 min

House for Sale

Christiane Tuffery

"The baseboards can always be painted over."

The sentence played over and over again in Margaret's head. The real estate agent had muttered it innocently under her breath, but it stuck with he ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

You Give Me Butterflies

Swimming Lessons

Chimera

Blueberry and Sky

It Began With Bananas

Trampoline

Coping with Change

Underground

The Sunshine State

Influx

Something to Save

Noodles for Breakfast

Call It What You Will

The Job Interview: Thoughts and Prayers Accepted

Slomp

The Blue Lady

Exile

Pitman

House for Sale