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Short Fiction
 2 min

Not What I Appear To Be

Payton K

Splatter woke up to her alarm. She sat up and stretched, looking at the time and smiling as she saw she was a few minutes ahead of schedule. Getting out of bed, she headed towards her closet and ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Self-Fulfilling Theatrics

Jackie Smith

The murmuring of nobles filled the theatre. The stage was unfamiliar: marbled floors, stone pillars that seemed to reach the heavens, rounded ceilings adorned with paintings of Gods and Goddesses ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

A Balloon's Hapless Love for a Lamp

Luke Johnson

I used to be shiny. I used to be plump. I used to be ready to bounce and float to my heart's content. I was made to please: blown up with the air of a smiling clown, and twisted to become an animal of ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 2 min

Memory of a Home

Katherine Warner

The door slammed shut as the kid, a teenager soon to graduate high school, leaves the house. This isn't an old house, nor is it a new one. It has been there for what seems like ages surrounded by the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

Build

Adrienne Powell

We used to build. Back when I was a child, we built cities and palaces, temples and towers. We built relationships and communities and nations. We built artwork and music. I don't know when we ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

Intercontinental Breakfast

Adelle Else

Mom came to America, hungry for a slice of the American dream. Her first bite was a man from Texas, a recent divorcée who was sweet, with an aftertaste of debt. Still, America was the "shining City ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Terminal

Danni Zhou

It was the end of summer.
The sun grew into a large, old asphalt ball that tardily melted down. Waves of heat rose off the ground, and the figures of Nguyet and her aged horse weaved slowly within ...  [+]
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

How to kill time with your phone

Queenie Hola

"The fifth wave of Covid is hitting Hong Kong. Over 12,000 confirmed cases awaiting hospitalization. People rushed to public hospitals by different public transports." The news report from my ‘living ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 5 min

An Adventure story: Miner

Lovina Woo

1) It is late-night, and nearly morning, you're returning home with an oil light. It warms your cold left hand. You think it as usual: it's better than none. You start to count how much you just ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
 5 min

A Chinese New Year Banquet

Danni Zhou

The Chinese New Year was approaching. The muffled chimes of the temple bell froze in the air. The eerie orange hue of the sky mingled with the light cyan mist. Few pedestrians ducked their heads like ...  [+]