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Short Fiction
 5 min

Say it like you mean it

Mel

Did I say something wrong? I don’t get it.

Well, I do get it. I understand I say things that people don’t necessarily expect. It’s been 4 years since the accident, and it’s taken me about 3 and ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

First sightings

Smadronia

“So, there I was, walking through the forest from Timmy's house. You know Timmy, right? He's in Mrs. Folsom's class. His dad owns the hardware store. Anyway, me and Timmy -”
“Timmy and I ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

The Subaquatic Diver

Untouchable

For days at a time, he is underwater, although how many he can never be sure, floating just below where the sun or the moon or the crisscrossing searchlights of boats can penetrate and filter through ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

Adorable snakes

J. Raynaud

Karl and Martha, two German scientists, work together in a research laboratory. Their work focuses on poisonous snakes, studying their most dangerous specimens in order to develop bite antidotes ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

We will always have Casablanca

andriana minou

"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, why did you walk into mine?"
"Because it’s yours."
I touched the cigarette on my lips; I lowered my chin and looked at him beneath my ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

The Circus

James Leith

Dora Terra-Mangle was a lion tamer in Leeds from 1947 until May 15th, 1960. That was the day of the catastrophe when Dora, at home in her family caravan near the big top, dropped her thick green ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 1 min

Swing Shift

Leif Gregersen

Peace, quiet, glorious peace, quiet, solitude, and so much time. Growing up with four older brothers had made the experience of working nights as a rentacop a welcoming and comforting change of ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Under A Blue Sky

Bud Berkich

Ignorance... bliss?

Kenneth Shippe was my grandmother Rita's first cousin. Kenneth's wife Olivia and he lived in a large, one-story ranch-style house in a small town called Maple Junction ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Meow

MEG

The cat came insinuatingly and brushed against her leg, leaving white hairs on her dark blue jeans. She stiffened and after a pause, gave some crumbs of her cheeseburger bun to the stray. Then she ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Femme Fatal

Mark Kodama

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I knew she was trouble when she walked in the door. The perfume. The lipstick. The low-cut dress. And most of all – the attitude. She was sin herself. I knew she was going to be my ruin. I knew ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

From Two Worlds

Penelopa

What could be above the surface and why would someone even want to go up there? Humanity had learned to survive for hundreds of years within the dome communities that graced ocean floors across Earth ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

The Toaster

Operamom

I make toast - beautiful, browned bread, evenly crispy on the outside and soft and warm on the inside.

I made my first toast for you after you returned from your honeymoon in Detroit in 1947. I ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

The Awakening

Keith Simmonds

Sonny Ramsingh was an only child born of Indian parents who came from India as indentured labourers. They worked in the canefields of a small and picturesque Caribbean island until they gained thei ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 1 min

The Curve

GITA

Wade Harmon died Saturday, driving his John Deere eastward on the back fifty. The tractor idled until it ran out of fuel, and when he didn't come in for lunch, Mavis walked outside and saw it, green ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Sorry for the Visual

Christopher Scott Ford

I nervously walked through the main entrance of the Parkway Nursing Home. The first thing that hit me was the smell. I can’t explain it except that it was sour. My newspaper bags were heavily loaded ...  [+]