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Short Fiction
 5 min

The Angel's game

Aden Birch

Behind the Door was a casino out of time. It stood on pillars of brown marble in lines stretching far past the horizon. An infinite array of chandeliers spilled their warm, artificial light across the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Royal Flush

Gabriela Neycheva

"Master is coming," the guard announces, poking his head through the chain-clad iron door. The room on the other side is full, yet a token dropping can be heard from a mile away.  
After flinching ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

March

fern w.

The Sheets document glowed a glaring green. Bleary-eyed on a muggy March Monday, she continued to type, her legs folded under her. The tinted seminar room windows blunted the day; it was hard to tell ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

A Mile in Ari’s Shoes

Cece Small

I heard Ari discussing if she'll get rid of me today. I always knew this would happen, but this is the first time it's felt real. The notion of a fleeting existence. Or, at least the crumbling of my ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Final Alignment

Graham Field

The walls were a blinding white - almost too pure. They felt less like paint and more like calcified bone, caging me inside. I felt the graze of torn leather against my back, as toothpaste forced its ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

If I Knew This Was the Last

Evangeline Foo

"Toom... Toom... Toom!" The sound of the light switch echoed throughout the gym. 

The time now – 5 a.m. It is still dark out, the moon merely mirroring the cast of the distant sun. A light ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Hands

A. H.

In the vagueness of my dreams, a handless man sits opposite me at the poker table. "Your turn," he grins sharply as he pushes all his chips forward. The cards are bloodstained. What is it that we do ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

I am Lilith

Bernice Tan

The sounds of papers flipping reverberated through the room. Pens and highlighters were scattered messily on the floor. Each flip of the script was filled with frenzied scribbling. Annotation afte ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Through Your Eyes

Paisley Marie

Isabelle  We burst into the museum, and the tour guide launched into his speech the second we crossed the threshold. He spotted me right away and rolled his eyes, like I'd already ruined his morning ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Twenty-One

Victoria Cox

Haddow's bar was nearly empty that night. What was once a bustling business had deteriorated over the past twelve years into a musty joint not even the most desperate alcoholic would step foot in ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Spindle

Elanah Prugh

On the edge of the pine forest, I decided to settle down under a neon cactus. Its bioluminescent buds would give me more light than the crescent moon. These cacti have always been enough to see my ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 3 min

Third Date at the End of the World

Vanessa Bloom

I meet him the day Iran bombs Israel. Thousands of miles away at our idyllic Southern California campus, our engineering professor rambles about fluid dynamics. A soft chuckle draws my attention, and ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

One Dream, No Backup

Vishal Makawane

"What's your backup plan?" That was the question everyone asked Arjun the day he announced that he was preparing for the UPSC Civil Services Examination. But Arjun had already made his choice. There ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

All In

Cherry Chan

"I'm dying"  That's the first thing Helen said to me since I was here. She had been quiet for quite some time even after I ordered meals for both of us. Her Rolex glimmered under the light of ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Ephemerality

Isha Fayaz

Red plagued the office corridors along with dissonant alarm bells. It was what jerked Violet out of her seat before she became part of the scramble towards the exit. Amidst the crowd, she chanced ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

A House Without a Roof

Mohammad Mazhari

 They called the city a furnace with streets. Kilns ringed the markets like open red mouths, and clay figures cooled on racks—lions with human eyes, queens with crescent crowns, gods whose smiles ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

A God of small lights

Ariane C

Once, there was a God. 
Though the God was undoubtedly a God, and, as per God status, was to be unbothered by any human-like type of annoying life side effects (feelings, bodily functions and ...  [+]