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Short Fiction

Tints and Hues

Bellatrix Sakakino worked for a commercial bank, focusing on securities valuation and research, and nobody liked her. This was because of her tints and hues. The colors emanating from her person were ... [+]

Short Fiction

Portrait 2 min

The Night My Father Danced Like Gene Kelly

E. E. King

Dapper in a topcoat and tails, feet moving fast and graceful as birds skimming still waters, he whirled and swooped, catching my mother, still young and slim, by the waist, bending her backward. She ... [+]

Short Fiction

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

Portrait Slice of Life 5 min

A Stranger’s Time

Drew Kolenik

I've never been less than an hour early for my train. I don't know if it comes from a sense of heightened preparedness or an ongoing current of anxiety that doesn't even let me sleep in on weekends ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Sorrow 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

Portrait Quirky 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

Magical Realism Slice of Life 2 min

Tree Love

Kirti Bhadresa

Maria had never been in love. But when she first saw a tiny sprout push its way through the tile floor, she felt something tighten inside her belly. She sat in her father's wooden rocking chair, his ... [+]

Short Fiction

Suspense & Mystery Quirky 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

Magical Realism Portrait 5 min

Joey Button

Lauren Harkawik

Joey Button didn't know how long he'd been peddling his bike when he saw it, but whenever he'd recall the moment, he'd remember that his legs were tired, so it'd probably been a while. It didn't ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life 1 min

Swimming Home

Kenneth Margolin

Twenty years ago, I took my daughter, Sara, to the ocean for her fourth birthday. She just learned to dog paddle, and proudly walked up to anyone in sight, saying, "I can swim." The sea was calm, so I ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 3 min Mature Audience

Mirror, Mirror

AJ Rocca

There once was a glassblower who lived by the sea. In the daring years of his youth, the glassblower would pull all kinds of strange and wonderful shapes from out of colored glass. He blew neon spires ... [+]

Short Fiction

Young Adult Slice of Life 3 min

Them

Nathan Alling Long

They called her the girl with the big ears, though they didn't call her that to her face. That is, not to her ears. Not exactly. Not intentionally. They were sitting in the cafeteria—one line of buff ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Portrait 3 min Mature Audience

Memory Sands

Sam Muller

I woke up from an untroubled sleep and remembered nothing.
***
Some days I envy Gregor Samsa. He woke up from a troubled sleep and found himself transformed into a giant ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Humor 3 min

Crossing the Line

Liz Ulin

They sat alone in the back of the sweltering Chevy, their plump pink thighs stuck to the seat. Suzie glared at her brother's hand crossing the sacred middle line, slithering forward like a snake ... [+]

Short Fiction

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

Slice of Life 2 min Mature Audience

Points

Lucia Cascioli

"You don't have enough points, sir."
"Yes, that's true, but I'll pay the difference," the old man said to the operator.
"That's not how the credit card plan works anymore," she explained. "The rules ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Nostalgia 3 min

The Maestro

Pamela Watts

If he's being honest, he wishes he was at home with a Bourbon and a good book. He's never been one for pageantry. But the party is to honor him. The other retiring faculty members too, of course. But ... [+]

Short Fiction

Slice of Life Humor 5 min

A Cup of Chicanery

Kathryn England

"Mrs. Crump?"
The man frowning at Madge through the screen door had stolen a letter from the mailbox earlier in the week, so he knew the surname.
"Yes," Madge replied.
"I'm Harold Bates from the ... [+]

Short Fiction

Portrait Humor 4 min Mature Audience

Where I See Myself in 150 Years or Less

Liz Mayers

Working toward sainthood this summer solved some of my problems. For one, my daily-Mass-going mother got off my back about getting a job and moving out permanently. Plus, it gave her something to brag ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Tints and Hues

The Night My Father Danced Like Gene Kelly

Brick Room

A Stranger’s Time

Alight

The Girl in the Tree

Separation

Tree Love

Only the Worms Know

Joey Button

Swimming Home

Mirror, Mirror

Them

Memory Sands

Crossing the Line

Fox

Points

The Maestro

A Cup of Chicanery

Where I See Myself in 150 Years or Less