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Short Fiction

Route 13

On his first day at the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation, twenty-five year old Masti Govind Swamy, named after the village of Masti, where his father, not he, was born, found to his ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 5 min Mature Audience

Long Way Home

Sarena Kuhn

My mother told me I should never date a guy who didn't have his own car. She said that it set some bad precedent, mixed up the lines between provider and provided-for. There's nothing more ladylike ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 5 min

Perhaps Under Different Circumstances

Sonia Weiser

Anna knew the bridge was a mistake before she and Henry even got there. Maybe it was because he had said he thought it was strange for full grown adults to interrupt a conversation to swoon over an ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life Love & Loss 3 min Mature Audience

Moondust

Lysander Champion

The night before Jen touched down on Earth, I was holed up in Rachel's bedroom in Houston. We had both made a valiant, fruitless effort to sleep; now it was three in the morning. Sometime around one ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Humor 4 min

PrinceMatch

AJ Rocca

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who was stolen by a terrible necromancer. He and his rotting, clanking horde abducted her from the palace gardens and carried her away and away until ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Portrait Slice of Life 4 min

Fox

Anthony Kane Evans

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Rob and I were down the pub, drinking Guinness. There was a woman in there with a face like a fox. The whiteness of it, along with the red hair, only strengthened the impression. She shot out ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Young Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy 5 min

First Date

L N Hunter

I watched one of those old movies the other day—you know, from when nobody wore masks. It was a little disturbing to see all those naked mouths, and sometimes it was tricky to tell what was going on ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 3 min

Save the Date

Mehdi M. Kashani

They did it for the hell of it. They knew they wouldn't last. Their friends knew; their families knew; even their dog knew, though it wasn't invited to the wedding.
It was fun, especially when they ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 5 min Mature Audience

Drunk Driving

Olivia W

I. Sober
Mrs. Anna Shaw dreaded Saturdays, though if you asked her why, she wouldn't have known exactly what to say. "Dinner just doesn't feel right," she might say, tugging thoughtfully at he ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life Portrait 2 min

Off-Sale

Hassan Melehy

Across a wood-grain bar in southern Minnesota on the way to Buddy Holly roller coaster in slower Iowa, I lay a few dollars on the bar for the sixpack of Blatz (cheapest they got and straight from ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 3 min Mature Audience

Bayshore Piano Movers

Anna Ziegelhof

This job is a grand. We're supposed to deliver the piano from a suburban chateau into a self-storage facility. Why doesn't matter. Pick-up address, how many floors down; delivery address, how many ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 3 min Mature Audience

A Box of Things

Nathan Alling Long

"She's a difficult pleasure," I said of my ex-wife. I was standing at the front door of her house, talking to her new partner, Sammy, a woman. My ex-wife, Lily, was not there.

We both took in ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 4 min

Seamless Transition

Daniel Freeman

In front of him, for nearly every minute he was awake, there was a screen.

He tried to recall a time when it wasn't this way. He couldn't, so he watched old movies to try to remember.

"Yeah ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Love & Loss 4 min Mature Audience

She Squared

Kathy Anderson

She sleeps like a dead weight now beside me, lowered into the night, the ropes of the day swaying around her. We know nothing about each other really. She does not know how often my ex-lover visits me ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Portrait Love & Loss 5 min Mature Audience

How I Learned to Stay Alive

Jules Hogan

This story contains adult themes and is not appropriate for young or sensitive readers.

I met Sarkas at a club called Pose. Rolling on molly, eager to swallow the world, dancing with our hips ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 1 min

The Sword Swallower Cuts Their Tongue While Saying Goodbye

Jesse Bradley

The weather was good today, you answer whenever I ask how are you, how was your day. I don't know when we stopped talking about what mattered the most because you won't tell me. I ask are you ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Slice of Life 5 min Mature Audience

Dallas Fireflies

Zoe Marie Bel

It began at a sports bar, the kind of place the realtor would call "happy-go-lucky." In other words, if your barstool wasn't sticky, assume it had just been swabbed clean by CSI. There was graffiti ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Nostalgia 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

Modern Love Slice of Life 2 min

Human Song

Shannon McLeod

We pull off at the side of the highway in Somewhere, Maine looking to sing to the snails. There's a deep shoulder of gravel here, so we assume it to be a parking lot. The sky and the water and the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Modern Love Romance 3 min Mature Audience

First In, Last Out

Daniel Wallace

On our last day at the beach the sun came out, and the fog, which for that whole week had draped the shore in a veil of cotton, burned away: we discovered there was an ocean here, after all. It ... [+]

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Route 13

Long Way Home

Perhaps Under Different Circumstances

Moondust

PrinceMatch

Fox

First Date

Save the Date

Drunk Driving

Off-Sale

Bayshore Piano Movers

A Box of Things

Seamless Transition

She Squared

How I Learned to Stay Alive

The Sword Swallower Cuts Their Tongue While Saying Goodbye

Dallas Fireflies

Bargaining

Human Song

First In, Last Out