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Short Fiction
 5 min

Happy Birthday

Vincent Lim

Today is my birthday, again.
I ought to be happier, but I cannot help but feel only melancholy in this moment... I suppose I was happy.
‘Do blow out your candles, dear. Your cake is ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Bare Branches, Bare Bones

Latriva Pierce

           The biting November wind swept the dead, crumpled leaves into the fire pit. It was quiet and ashy, specks of white soot falling away from the cracked logs. I stared at the blue tarp ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Out Of Earshot

Riley Newfield

I always prefer to stand just out of earshot. It helps keep me from listening to things I shouldn't hear. The irony is that I come from a family of eavesdroppers, the type who never bring a book to ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 3 min

Once in A Pink Moon

Jahnavi Munagala

The magic of the unexpected is so special because it can come at a time when you need reassurance for your soul. For me, it came on this beautiful day in Kerala, India on April 21st. I was in India ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Girl Who Followed The Moon

Mrithika Sivakumar

It was, without doubt, the brightest and the coldest night of her life. All Aurora could do was stare at the moon, slack-jawed and wide-eyed.  Her body was unnaturally light as she pulled herself up ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Forest Whispers to A Child

Howra M

I walk through the concrete path winding through the gardens outside my college, looking around fondly at the white magnolias in bloom, its sweet scent in the air. Its petals match the fluffy clouds ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

I walked to the end of the world.

Kiley Flynn

I walked to the end of the world. 
I used to visit all the time. The 11:55 AM ding that announced the end of third-period English and the beginning of lunch would lift me out of the dismal high ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Just for one Amavasai night

Vardni V

Chandra's vision was filled with bokeh in the soft neon lights at Luna. No, not the flower kind of bokeh but the technical-term-in-photography kind. She downed her drink and waved to the bartende ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Piscis and the Witch

Addyson Turner

 Ephesta's feet dangled off the rotting end boards of the dock, back and forth in a pendulum swing over the opalescent foam of the briny black sea. The rags around her shoulders prevented little of ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Summer of Mosquitos

Tayadora Villalobos

 "Well, there's lots of things along the roa-,"  I peeled my elbows off of the vinyl counter. I think someone is coming up. They are. Damn. I take out my earbuds. "Find everything alright?" I ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

Once in a Year

Atlas Wrobel

I sit in my bed  bang my head against the wall.  Two am in the morning  And I have been wide awake since 10. And I have tried everything! Tea, honey, milk, melatonin, reading, watching a movie,  ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

thirty seconds

pen name

There are thirty seconds until the guillotine's blade falls through your neck.
Thirty.
You take a second to scan the crowd. Your people are jeering and calling for your death. You, the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Lake of Lost Souls

Dana C

The man didn't know where he was. He looked down at his feet, feeling betrayed by them. Why was he here? His feet stared back silently at this accusation. The man tried to regain his senses but it ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Bar Tales

Dayanna Shomo

I was sitting alone one day in this dive bar back in 2010 after long car road I made for a work trip. I don't remember much of this bar but I do remember this creepy guy walking into the bar. He ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

A Chance Encounter with a Cowboy

Isabel Reddy

 I walked into my local thrift store one day and found a pair of chaps. I was quite sure it's genuine leather, I don't know much about leather but it didn't feel like that tacky plastic wrap ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

The Bunker

Haley Fannin

In the desolate silence of a world gone dark, a man wandered through the ruins, the weight of solitude pressing down on him. Months had passed since he'd seen another soul, and the echo of his own ...  [+]