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Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 2 min

My Journey to College

Tatyana Hunter

      Once in a blue moon, the universe conspires to weave a tale so enchanting that it defies the ordinary rhythms of life. In the heart of 2024, a year marked by both tumult and triumph, there ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

The Descent

K V

They rushed into his room holding metal rods to beat his lifeless body.
He was barely conscious, yet his body seized from the pain and shock of the violent attack. Their hands were hidden. They ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

teenage chords

Sanika Ganesh

We all tire of our greatest loves. We get caught up in the flash of excitement, and we begin to believe in something real, something true, something meaningful, something lasting. But sooner o ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The process of thawing

Vaenil Vembirai Nambi

Avascular Necrosis. Bone tissue death from blood supply loss—a fate Isaiah might face if his wife didn't abandon her desperate need for comfort. He could only blame himself. Well, maybe his wife's ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Metamorphic

Darwin LaPollo

At first, James hadn't known what a coma was. His parents, through misty eyes, had to tell him several times in the first week after his brother's injury. Now, he was the one who had to regularly ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Raising the Stellar Dead

Tanisha Shende

Raising the stellar dead. The phrase had been plastered on posters and emails in the weeks leading up to the astronomer's lecture, intriguing even the least scientifically-inclined of our student ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Limbo

John Chase

 "Again?!" The judge exclaimed as he grabbed onto the little strands of hair on his head. "This hasn't happened since 40 years ago!"  He slowly raised his gaze until it met Tim's eyes.   "I'm ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

The Evolution of Trust

Nazeq Abudaya

Lucy looked towards her Captain only to find him keeled over the side of the deck bringing up the contents of his stomach. The nearly imperceptible sigh that escaped her lips was the only indication ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Pyramids of Madness

Maya Meehan-Ritter

The professor stared deeply into the foam of her coffee and only saw hieroglyphs. 
That little swirl of chocolate she had added to the mocha concoction sort of looked like an ankh, didn't it? The ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Brueghel’s Peasants

Justin Cannan

"The Hapsburgs? Bah, who'd want to paint their ugly mugs, what with their inbred chins! Or perhaps you thought I'd paint Adonis, or David bathing beside Bathsheba, complete with glistening skin and ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Memento

Naci Konar-Steenberg

The artifacts were discovered forty years ago by a mountaineering expedition, but came to the attention of our geology department only recently. The mountaineers were part of a multinational ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

When No One's Watching

Quinn McNally

      It's 11:54 when we leave the party.        I have to drag her away; she's tipsy from sneaking sips of my parents' champagne and doesn't see the need to rush. I can't judge her—I'm not all ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Friends Lost and Found

Isla McCullough

Most people think ghosts only come out at night. They'd be wrong.  A kid tripped along the path, about five years old, chasing a chipmunk. Nobody called out for him to stop or be careful. Indeed ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

legs

Swaranya Sarkar

"Shoot!"
The blast echoes across the field. 
I watch from behind a grimy water pump. For days, I have been watching, never daring to go beyond. The air smells like sweat and hangs heavy ove ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Prince's Visit

Scarlett Kingston

When Prince Hubert stepped into this murky town, he couldn't fathom who would travel across the vastness of the empire for a mere festival. Barren streets — lamenting the beating sun — and one ...  [+]
Nouvelles
 5 min

Like

Charlotte Chadwick

We were walking together, the three of us, the shape we made lurching clumsily to and fro on the concrete as our glances flicked back and forward between our faces; asking, answering, nodding ...  [+]
Nouvelles
 5 min

Midnight Rising

Ava Illi

The crests and troughs of the night were already beating along the shore. Oh, how badly she wished to be released from Rickshaw! Up there, on the rocky cliff dotted with pink salt sand and red paint ...  [+]