Short Fiction

The House that No One Lived In

Madison Hancey

I was almost certain there was no one in that house.
Sometimes I saw the garage light on but, I mean, if it was electric anything could trigger it. There was a cat door and so I assumed ...  [+]

Poetry
Poetry
Short Fiction

The Storm

Mirah Thornock

The wind whipped the salty spray through my hair, burning the cuts on my cheek made from Xander's stonesword. As the thunder clapped in the distance, bringing the inevitable doom of the Storm even ...  [+]

Short Fiction

The First and Last

Christian Olson

I'm dead again.
Another quick trip across the Styx or whatever one wishes to call this black void and
I'll be back on my feet.
I wonder who I will be in this life.
Man or woman?
Rich ...  [+]

Short Fiction

The Duel

Nick Saluzzi

A steel ball, otherwise harmless, hurled through the air, propelled by the ingenious mechanism of metal and gunpowder, an agent of certain doom. A perfect invention of death, the bullet cut through ...  [+]

Short Fiction

Pasta Hair

Madilyn Abbe

I'm really sorry, Mr. Hogan. I didn't mean to get in trouble. I really do have a good explanation, I really do!

It's just that I always get hungry when I sit behind Maggie. You see, she has ...  [+]

Short Fiction

A Story in Pieces

Jared Langford

It wouldn't matter that much, whether we lived or died. It mattered to us, sure, but in general, I mean. We would be just one more frozen corpse on a mountain. Like ornaments on a tree. This tree ...  [+]

Creative Nonfiction
Poetry

Zombies

Sam Susan

I want to move to a small town.
Somewhere up in the mountains, with thin air and thinne ...  [+]

Poetry
Short Fiction

Dying Stars

Elizabeth Boyer

It was twenty minutes before the start of class on the first day of my first year of college.
California. The land of opportunity. Maybe not completely accurate, but for a gay kid like me, it was ...  [+]

Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Short Fiction

Ständchen

Eve Iyengar

His left hand reached for the door handle while his right wrapped around my own. The room he led me into appeared simultaneously empty and full, bright and dark. Through an open window I smelt the ...  [+]

Poetry

Evelyn

Eve Iyengar

From your soft pink cheeks,
rose gardens will bloom

and from the blue in your eyes, ...  [+]

Creative Nonfiction

Bugs

Sam Susan

I remember being a little girl going to the department store with my mom; all the girls' clothing was as expected: frilly and pink, embroidered with butterflies, usually itchy and always sparkly ...  [+]

Poetry