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Short Fiction

Projector

"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

Shades of Love 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

Shades of Love 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

Shades of Love Slice of Life Modern Love 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

Shades of Love Slice of Life Portrait Love & Loss 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

Shades of Love Nostalgia Love & Loss 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 ... [+]

Short Fiction

Shades of Love Love & Loss Nostalgia Magical Realism 4 min Mature Audience

While We're Yet Remembered

Deborah L. Davitt

It was the splatter of liquid on my face that woke me. Shitty-quality beer, with a taste of loam. Awareness returned as it puddled beneath me, where the tree roots grew against my back. Feet on the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Shades of Love Portrait Love & Loss 2 min

Masks

Hugh J. O'Donnell

The day after the election, he carved a mask.
The day after that, he carved another.
It had never been more than a hobby; a craft passed down to him by his grandfather, who carved and painted all ... [+]

Short Fiction

Shades of Love Joy Romance Slice of Life 4 min

Freefall

Angela Teagardner

The wind was sharper this close to the water. Hands trembling, Astrid hurried to zip her jacket before the ride operator checked her seatbelt. She wished her tremors had more to do with the chill in ... [+]

Short Fiction

Shades of Love Slice of Life Modern Love 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

Shades of Love Slice of Life Modern Love 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

Shades of Love Humor Modern Love 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

Shades of Love Portrait Nostalgia Love & Loss 5 min

A Bunch of Early Mimosas

Emil Draitser

"So, you're happy, huh?" he says in disbelief.

He asks me this question several times during our two-hour get-together, trying to understand how I could feel so much happier about my life than he ... [+]

Short Fiction

Shades of Love Slice of Life Love & Loss 3 min

Brick Room

David Evan Krebs

Sarah feels bricked up, even though she's riding her bike. She feels caged, because of where she's riding her bike: to a coffee shop to meet an ex she's not sure she wants to meet. He called her to ... [+]

Short Fiction

Shades of Love 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

Shades of Love Young Adult Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modern Love 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

Shades of Love Sorrow Love & Loss 4 min Mature Audience

Knitting for Leo

Alex Grehy

My mother taught me to knit.

Back then, knitting was a necessity, not some artisan craft like it is today. She would get patterns from women's magazines and cheap wool from the market. She ... [+]

Short Fiction

Shades of Love 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

Shades of Love Slice of Life Modern Love 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 ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Projector

Pinecone

Two More

Long Way Home

Birds, Circling, Everywhere

My Horse of a Different Color

While We're Yet Remembered

Masks

Freefall

Perhaps Under Different Circumstances

Moondust

PrinceMatch

A Bunch of Early Mimosas

Brick Room

Fox

First Date

Knitting for Leo

Save the Date

Drunk Driving