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Short Fiction
 5 min

Klyuchi

Kevin Cook

Scheduled to leave on the 0620 flight to Stockholm, this time she packed light since it was a short run. Arriving at the coffee shop in the terminal, she orders breakfast a little earlier than usual ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

Sunset in Tsim Sha Tsui

晟軒 羅

"Next stop, Tsim Sha Tsui Station"

As soon as I stepped out of the carriage, I walked towards the roof garden platform of the parking lot of Harbour City. I put on my headphones, I sat on the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Happy New Year

Qian CHEN

It was weird that I had never considered strangling myself with a tie. While pondering upon my previous trials, I removed the tie from the shirt, wrapped it around my neck, and cinched it as tightly ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Doubting Thomas

EA Douglas

I had been working at the diner for like, a year and a half. The place off the highway, outside that little butt-scrap of a town. It was an okay joint, with a couple of cracked vinyl seats and ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Charging Flame

james duffy

"Shite." Seamus sighed, as he watched the sun fall over the horizon.

He hadn't meant to spend so much time in town. Now he was paying for it. He sighed, he couldn't wait to get back to Maeve ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Uncontrollable

Bertha de los Rios Bustamante

TW: blood, m*rder

When I came back to consciousness, my head hurt. I felt the light through my closed eyelids, and even though I realized that if I opened my eyes, it would hurt more, the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Home Bound

IsaBella Sztyber

Alone. All I've ever known is loneliness. Hours, days, weeks, they all merge together after a while.

At least it is bright, the sun shines through the blinds in this desolate house, but that ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Shadow Flees Before It

Wade Lundgren

Sleet fell, cast bloodred by the last throes of a dying sun. The ground beneath the terrible host churned like long-soured milk in the kirn. Horse breath and the stench of man rose from the ground ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

Skittles Scandal

Katie Brimhall

Sitting at a diner was the last thing he wanted to be doing right now. He could be at home drawing right now, and instead he had to sweat through the hazy heat slowly circulated by the broken uneven ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Chainsaw

Valerie Ohtsji

All I remember before I blacked out was seeing the pavement and a black figure in front of me. I was lying, facedown, on the ground when I woke up. The sun was so bright that I had to blink a few ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

Secret Identities

Andrew McGlohon

I never thought I'd meet another hitman on the job who wasn't trying to kill me. It was at La Pergola in Rome. The slim patch of Kevlar right over his heart, almost invisible under his jacket, only ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Killian's Prophecy

Lenae Rubey

Killian stood in front of the bridge, breathing heavily.
This was it. After months of traveling through the mud and rain, he was finally at the Gates of Orr. His nose ran from the cold, but he ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Forlorn

Leah Hutchinson

I awoke in an unfamiliar hallway. I sat up from the cold concrete floor below me and tried to collect myself.
"Where am I?" I asked myself.
"I can't remember anything."
I looked around to ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

The Crows at Golgoth Lake

Katie Leonard

The crows haven't left. Dozens descended upon the shoreline seven seconds after Ms. Pocrite smushed herself into the right side of the bench at Golgoth Lake. Dancing along the waterline, they pecked ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Sounds Within

Josephine Taiwo

‘You're disgusting', ‘You filthy pig', ‘Get a grip on yourself', I heard the voices chime in perfect harmony. I turned on the radio that stood by my bedside on the way to the bathroom. I hated the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

I Did The Hard Part For You

Kelly Ray

Toni
My name was Naomi Campbell, and I died five years ago.
When you die, the only way you exist is within the memory of people. While you're alive, you're multidimensional.
When you're alive ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

The Origin of Dragons

Lars Anderson

Captain's log 45:

We finally found it! We found the last of the five dragon species. The species of sea dragons we have just located makes for a set of five holotype dragons. Since dragons are ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

Sugary Hands

Nayda Gingerich

The old man thought about that long ago, of working and being innocent. Even as a child, he'd always had a job. Some of his most fond memories were of delivering breakfast to his grandfather out in ...  [+]