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Short Fiction

Quirky Humor Absurd Sci-Fi & Fantasy 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

Quirky Humor Suspense & Mystery 4 min Mature Audience

The Cat Lady’s Lament

E. E. King

I never thought I would end up like this – like a tabloid horror story. Someday I bet I'll be discovered dead, here in my tiny, piss-scented apartment, being devoured by my seventy cats.
Thing is ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Humor Absurd Magical Realism 4 min Mature Audience

Hair Today

Ty Fi

Randall stood before his bathroom mirror – gazing at the enormous, glistening dome that was his head. Creams, lotions, infused oils, battery-powered skull caps; he had deployed them all in his ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Humor Portrait Magical Realism 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

Quirky Portrait 3 min Mature Audience

Fred Is (Not) an Arsonist

Nathan Alling Long

Fred is an arsonist—and, Fred is not an arsonist. Let me explain: Fred has thought of fire, its power and grace, for a long time. Perhaps since he was a child. He often watched fires, mesmerized by ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Humor Magical Realism Suspense & Mystery 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

Quirky Sorrow 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

Quirky Magical Realism Suspense & Mystery 4 min

Grandpa's Painting

Alex Maliraut

There was an old painting in my grandparents' attic. Neither beautiful nor ugly, it simply depicted an empty room with no figures, an old living room with an armchair, library, and fireplace ... [+]