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Short Fiction

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 4 min Mature Audience

Through Grief

Joseph it can't be
"Will you sacrifice?"

This isn't real. I'd never let it happen.

I sit cross-legged in a meadow of four colors and all around me blue. Grass grows from my thighs ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow Suspense & Mystery 5 min Mature Audience

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

Joy 2 min

Be Mine

Carmela M-U

They sat together in comfortable silence, having been in each other's company for over ten years.
One of their favourite places was on the swing chair, overlooking the backyard, gently moving ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Humor 4 min

While the Cat's Away

Larina Warnock

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

Humor Quirky 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

Love & Loss Sci-Fi & Fantasy 5 min

Beloved

Angela Teagardner

The witch lived alone in the shadow of the forest. Her cottage, with its crooked door and moss-covered shingles, was perched at the edge of a still, green pond with an overgrown orchard beyond. Only ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Portrait 3 min

Liturgy of Light

Robin Blasberg

A cornucopia of color. A litany of light. That's what I could count on come December. It had even spiraled into a competition amongst my neighbors, each house trying to one-up the next. But as far as ... [+]

Short Fiction

Absurd Sci-Fi & Fantasy Humor 5 min

For whom the troll tolls

Rob Roy O'Keefe

I couldn't believe it. "10,000 Kroners! That's outrageous!"
I was deep in the Troms region of Norway on the Nordost Road. I had been for a while. At the moment, I was trying to cross the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Suspense & Mystery 3 min

The Brick House

Joseph Testa

Every time I walked by the house it haunted me. The run-down brick house at the top of a hill, window frames rotting, trim crusted with flaked paint. It showed no evidence of life, no evidence of ... [+]

Short Fiction

Suspense & Mystery 3 min

Night of the Strawman

Edward Yatscoff

I had to have it.
It waited for me in the night as I summoned courage.
Soon, it would be my trophy.
The scarecrow stood, a stark silhouette against the light from a rear window ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Slice of Life 4 min Mature Audience

The Space Between

Nikki Blakely

Georgia lies in bed, eyes closed, curled into a ball, listening to the soft tick-tick-tick from the clock in the living room as it counts down the minutes until morning. The minutes tick into hours ... [+]

Short Fiction

Romance Young Adult 1 min

Pulse

M.R. Lehman Wiens

You stare as the fence silently pulses, ready to shock curious sheep away. The pulse gives them time to retreat, to let go. If the power was continuous, you and the sheep would be stuck, glued to the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 3 min Mature Audience

How Me and Petey Saved the World

Andrea Goyan

Me and Petey didn't mean to break the world. Honest. We were just bored and looking to have a bit of fun. And you know, high school dropouts like us don't know anything about physics. Hell, we ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life 3 min

A Coaster Connection for Gramps and Granddaughter

Dave Bachmann

I am on a roller coaster which is click clacking up a steep incline. Lily, my eight-year-old granddaughter, is sitting next to me. "This is boring," she laments, gazing languidly over the side of ou ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 4 min

Hard Times at the Four Pines Motel

P.A. Cornell

I was just a kid when Dad bought the Four Pines Motel. He called it a "diamond in the rough," but I couldn't see much promise in the shabby building with the mint green paint peeling off the siding ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 5 min Mature Audience

The Best Ice Cream in the Universe

Russell Fee

My uncle Gerry Karlsson was a storyteller—a great one. My cousins and I loved his stories and even loved the fact that they changed a bit—sometimes a lot—with each retelling. We'd all listen closely ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 4 min

If I Have Defects, Am I Defective?

Ian Li

My hands shake, indenting the lip of the ceramic cup I'm molding. I swivel and look at the other android artisans on the factory floor, robotic hands ablur ensuring each cup is perfect—and they ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min Mature Audience

Intrusive Minds

Jeanna Cammarano

We are nine when I discover I am the evil twin. We've just blown out the candles on our birthday cake. Our dad sets down the kitchen knife and heads around the corner to help mom grab bowls and ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life 4 min

Snow Cat

E. E. King

Everyone loved Auntie Joe's cat T. She got him when he was just eight weeks old—a curious, friendly, fearless gray tiger. He was hilariously clumsy, too. When leaping onto a table, he'd usually ... [+]

Short Fiction

5 min

Spring's Sign of Faith

Georgia Corso

When my kids were little, back in the late 1980s, we bought our new house and took on a bigger mortgage. I was a stay-at-home mom. After moving in, my husband John got permanently laid off from his ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Through Grief

What Happened That Night

Be Mine

While the Cat's Away

The Second Person

Beloved

Liturgy of Light

For whom the troll tolls

The Brick House

Night of the Strawman

The Space Between

Pulse

How Me and Petey Saved the World

A Coaster Connection for Gramps and Granddaughter

Hard Times at the Four Pines Motel

The Best Ice Cream in the Universe

If I Have Defects, Am I Defective?

Intrusive Minds

Snow Cat

Spring's Sign of Faith