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Short Fiction

Sorrow Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Magical Realism Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Slice of Life 3 min

Petrichor

Eszter Molnar

My shift is over. And not a minute too soon. I'm on the verge of tears. I'll have to be back in less than seven hours. My armpits are clammy, I'm feeling uncomfortable, and I just want to go home and ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sorrow Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Love & Loss 4 min

Would You Like My Jacket?

Ali Abbas

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 ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sorrow Sci-Fi & Fantasy Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Love & Loss 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

Sorrow Slice of Life 4 min

Alight

Lisa Beebe

We bought the land to build a house, even though we knew it would be years before we could afford to build anything. We thought of it as an investment in our future. The land gave us something to look ... [+]

Short Fiction

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

Sorrow Suspense & Mystery 1 min Mature Audience

For Seven Years

Thomas Elson

Each morning his face flushed as he remembered the boy's words, "I want that shovel. It's just like yours." And each morning he fell to his knees, extended his arms, then plunged his hands into the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sorrow Quirky 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

Sorrow Portrait Historical 4 min Mature Audience

My Friend Matty

FC Pierce

My friend Matty believed he could fly. "I have the cape and everything," he told me one afternoon. We were playing knights and dragons in his backyard when he pointed to the roof.

"You want to ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sorrow Slice of Life Love & Loss 5 min

The Girl Who Liked Cats

Dave Cuzzolina

Harold Gates slowed the snow-topped yellow taxi and edged it along the slushy curb to a stop where she stood, shivering in a tattered wool coat in a January blizzard on the steps of her unlit ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sorrow Portrait 4 min

Comfort

Zachary Kellian

The kitten-shaped egg timer on the corner of the mattress beeps and they switch positions. Now she is cradling him. His head rests on her slender left arm; her right arm she drapes around his waist ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sorrow Portrait 3 min Mature Audience

Disappearing Acts

Erin Kirsh

When she left, Anita took Mom's valise, the round one with the wooden handle from Eaton's department store. Mom was furious. She'd had it on hold at the store for weeks while she earned enough to ... [+]

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Finding Hope

Across the Board of Time

For Always and Forever

What Happened That Night

Death of a Star

Petrichor

Last Breath

Good Bones

Some Meat on Those Bones

Would You Like My Jacket?

Unwrapping

Oceans Between Us

Alight

Knitting for Leo

For Seven Years

Plum Tree

My Friend Matty

The Girl Who Liked Cats

Comfort

Disappearing Acts