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Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow 4 min Mature Audience

Finding Hope

My wife went to bed fifteen days ago, and she's been there ever since.
We came home from the hospital dazed and empty-handed. Eleanor climbed the stairs, rushed past the freshly painted second ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Magical Realism Sorrow 4 min

Across the Board of Time

Heather Santo

Lena walked through the soccer field and to the edge of the woods. The large oak greeted her, outstretched branches bursting green with the early spring. "Hello," she said, patting its trunk. She ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow 5 min Mature Audience

For Always and Forever

Briana Angulo

You never know when the last goodbye is. We think we have forever until suddenly we don't. We enter with purpose and leave with only memory. I wish I had seen the battle he was fighting before it ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Nostalgia 2 min

Dreams on the interstate of forests and mountains

Henrietta Mosforth

The house takes a day to dismantle. Goodwill gets the furniture. Meghan sets a ground rule for the rest: George is allowed three seconds to decide where each thing should go: in the car (to be driven ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow Suspense & Mystery 5 min Mature Audience

What Happened That Night

P.A. Cornell

Josh is gone, but I see him everywhere. Even now, it's his reflection I see in the puddle as the storm brings me back to reality. I shiver. Seems I'm always cold these days. I need to get my shit ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sci-Fi & Fantasy 5 min

Beloved

Angela Teagardner

The witch lived alone in the shadow of the forest. Her cottage, with its crooked door and moss-covered shingles, was perched at the edge of a still, green pond with an overgrown orchard beyond. Only ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Slice of Life 4 min Mature Audience

The Space Between

Nikki Blakely

Georgia lies in bed, eyes closed, curled into a ball, listening to the soft tick-tick-tick from the clock in the living room as it counts down the minutes until morning. The minutes tick into hours ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow 4 min

Death of a Star

Ningjing Wu

The last apparition of Halley's Comet was in 1986, approaching Earth as close as 0.4 astronomical units. Halley takes a long journey to visit us. The comet follows an elliptical orbit that reaches ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Quirky 2 min Mature Audience

The Cancelled Holiday and Other Secrets

Eszter Molnar

Your baby is due in two weeks. Naturally, I'm over the moon about this, but I'm also feeling a bit sentimental . . . hence this letter.
So here I am at the kitchen table, thinking about you and ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow 4 min Mature Audience

Last Breath

L N Hunter

They always say the final sense to go is hearing, but touch lasts right 'til the end. Not over the whole body, though; I can't feel Dot's hand in mine, but this fucking diaper itches like blazes. I ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow 1 min

Good Bones

Corrie Haldane

The realtor moves from room to room in silence. Charlotte and I follow, anxiously awaiting his verdict.
Through the kitchen, the living room, the study. Upstairs, in and out of bedrooms. He ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow 4 min

Some Meat on Those Bones

J. M. Eno

Terrydale was a hamlet much too small to be located on any map, and so war came to it as it comes to such places—not through the trampling of armies over its quaint town square, or the burning of ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sci-Fi & Fantasy Sorrow 4 min Mature Audience

Unwrapping

Madeleine Pelletier

The DeliverBot drops the box at my feet and wheezes out a metallic "Happy Birthday" before flying away. At first, I think it's a mistake, because it isn't my birthday. At least, I don't think it is ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow 3 min

Would You Like My Jacket?

Ali Barzegar

I had just gotten out of the gas station and bought what I usually bought on my little Sunday night trips—a pack of reds, a water bottle (one of the purified waters. Spring water is quite gross to me ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow 4 min Mature Audience

Oceans Between Us

Corrie Haldane

My daughters run across the hard-packed sand, their blonde hair—Maureen's hair—streaming out behind them. They are three little replicas of my wife.
As always, the worry grips my heart with icy ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Slice of Life 2 min

Projector

Alfie Farrow

"Can I get you anything?" Granny Marion asked from the kitchen. "I'm afraid I don't have much here."

"I'm alright," I called back to her, tugging at the neck of my varsity jumper. I'd realised on ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Portrait 4 min Mature Audience

Pinecone

Katherine Davis

The sisters had walked these trails many times when they were little. But this time, the older sister was walking with her boyfriend. The younger sister stayed in front, pretending not to be bothered ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Nostalgia Magical Realism 4 min Mature Audience

Two More

Ben Briggs

My friend used to ride the midnight bus so he could spend time with his dead sister.
He had been doing this for about five years, right after she was killed. Her boyfriend shot her one night ove ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Slice of Life Portrait 5 min Mature Audience

Birds, Circling, Everywhere

Matthew Hose

Tomorrow will mark a year since I had my stroke. It's an occasion that, according to my daughter, Ginny, I should view as important. But I've spent enough time staring at death; I don't want to think ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Nostalgia Portrait 4 min Mature Audience

My Horse of a Different Color

FC Pierce

It was the summer of '82, my first year at Saint Vincent's. I'd just arrived in the city, a newly minted nurse from the Midwest, and taken an apartment on Perry Street with three other nurses. He was ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Finding Hope

Across the Board of Time

For Always and Forever

Dreams on the interstate of forests and mountains

What Happened That Night

Beloved

The Space Between

Death of a Star

The Cancelled Holiday and Other Secrets

Last Breath

Good Bones

Some Meat on Those Bones

Unwrapping

Would You Like My Jacket?

Oceans Between Us

Projector

Pinecone

Two More

Birds, Circling, Everywhere

My Horse of a Different Color