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Short Fiction

Quirky Sci-Fi & Fantasy 3 min Mature Audience

Therapy

"It happened again," Myriam said, as she entered the room. "I screwed up. I'm sorry." She collapsed on the couch, head in her hands. "I just wanted a sip. I thought I had a handle on this ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Humor 4 min

momofgale: My husband left us, and now my 12-year-old daughter is depressed. How can I help her? Top Answer: 15 upvotes 2 downyvotes cityyouthcounselor: Your daughter is grieving and likely feels ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Humor 4 min

The Second Person

Andrew Jones

The old woman opened her eyes, blinked a few times, and sat up in bed. She turned this way and that, peering at the objects in the small room: a low, narrow bed with fairytale figures carved in the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Love & Loss 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

Quirky Suspense & Mystery 2 min Mature Audience

Ghost Writers

Martha Witt

There's a relief that comes with revealing things down to their minutiae; small gasps of relief make space in the bedroom for the proverbial elephant. I do have a good husband. He's the kind that does ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Humor Magical Realism 4 min Mature Audience

A Demon’s Guide to Slowly Seducing a Seminarian

Ej Sidle

"Three of hearts," the demon says. He's lounging on Joseph's bed, deck of cards in his hands and shirt riding up over his stomach. He glances up, fangs flashing in a bright grin as if he can feel ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky 4 min Mature Audience

motherese

Joel Shoemaker

The brand-new baby is screaming. In French.
In German.
No, in French. It's definitely in French.
It isn't obvious, at first. It's not like she's screaming for a Weiner schnitzel or demanding a ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Magical Realism 3 min Mature Audience

Heavenly Rapture!

Dylan Brown

The sun struck my eyes as I rubbed the sleep off them. I stretched and yawned and felt the air. The little hairs on the back of my neck stood up straight. I couldn't help but smile because deep inside ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Portrait Young Adult 4 min

The Girl in the Tree

Rolli .

Tracy Jo Freely climbed a tree one day. A plum tree. The big plum tree at the end of Miro Street.
"When are you coming back down?" her parents asked her an hour later.
"Never," said Tracy Jo.
He ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Magical Realism 5 min Mature Audience

Separation

Chris Klassen

He couldn't say exactly when it fell off, was sometime during the night when he was asleep. But when he woke up in the morning, the ring finger of his left hand was off, tucked underneath the pillow ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Suspense & Mystery 1 min Mature Audience

Only the Worms Know

Avra Margariti

Every morning when I wake up, I lean out my window to say hello to Mom. She doesn't reply, but that's okay. She never was a good listener, even before she was buried in our backyard.

My brothe ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Sci-Fi & Fantasy 3 min

Crazy James and Barking Mad

Jenny Moore

Some Bright Spark tells Crazy James the dog will make his fortune. Says the mutt can smell buried treasure like a pig snuffling out truffles. Of course, James doesn't know the first thing about ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Absurd 2 min

Blue

Ben Black

In the office, she wrote everything on yellow paper: legals pads, while-you-were-outs, carbon copies, and sticky notes. Her eyes, so accustomed to the faded yellow of her workdays, had difficulty ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky 1 min

Just A Fish

A.M. Dodds-Wade

We spent hours at the store. Allison examined each animal one by one. She studied their movements, their noises and their smells. She looked at their feathers, spots, fur patterns, and colors. She ... [+]

Short Fiction

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

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

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

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

Quirky Absurd Suspense & Mystery 5 min

Delicious

Megan Hart

Jess was only ten when the first pods washed up on the shore. She'd been standing with her toes dug into the sand, letting the cold Atlantic Ocean swirl around her ankles, daring herself to venture ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Suspense & Mystery Portrait Sorrow 2 min Mature Audience

Trespassing—a Criminal Offense

Mark Budman

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 ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Therapy

While the Cat's Away

The Second Person

The Cancelled Holiday and Other Secrets

Ghost Writers

A Demon’s Guide to Slowly Seducing a Seminarian

motherese

Heavenly Rapture!

The Girl in the Tree

Separation

Only the Worms Know

Crazy James and Barking Mad

Blue

Just A Fish

The Break

Plum Tree

Solomon's Lines

The Night Library

Delicious

Trespassing—a Criminal Offense