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Short Fiction
 4 min

A Decision's Gravity

Mahek Arora

"Nobody said this was going to be easy, Robert," Anne said, locking her stern gaze on him.
Moving closer, she continued in a softer tone, almost as if echoing the voice in his head, "Think about ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

A bet

Muhd Afiq Bin Shawal

It was just a fun bet between his drinking buddies and him as they sat at the coffee shop, staring at the screen above and the football match playing on it. Jack had placed 10 dollars on one of the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

Love's lottery

Dawn Teo

My grandmother's mind was a bank. In the wage against age, words eroded to snow, the soft slough of rivers. Her love dove in circles of code, floating figures homed in red spaces. The wordless ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Raft

S. N. King

"I saw something last night."
The Marooned didn't stir at these words. He remained crouched on the shore, hairy feet burrowing under the same sand as the crab he was hunting. The Englishman ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Second Chances

Christopher Wells

The rain-slick rooftop makes Ige's boots squeak as he runs. The thud, thud, thud of the guard's boots behind him matched his heartbeat. "Don't get caught." Her words echoed in his head as he leapt ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Top of the World

Ria Lisso

He says it's like watching skin under a microscope, or mushrooms fly. 
"I want to see mushrooms fly!" Anya bounces to His words, her mushroom-stem fingers reaching for His hand. He smiles. His grip ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Story of little Hope

Jennifer Anaya

There once lived a girl named Hope, in a grand house that never felt like home. She lived with her mother, stepfather, and two stepbrothers. People who filled the rooms with noise but none with ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 5 min

Null Experience

Sybil Lam

She'd fractured his ribs trying to save him. The chest compressions were useless now. Her breath was shallow; she'd dragged him out of the water, pulled his shoulder out of its socket. She hung ove ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

The divine in sanity

Kiyoshi Hertell-Moraloki

The already barely audible sounds of at least a dozen shoes crunching against dead leaves in the distance became more muffled than before, even drowned out one might say, as he heard a familiar voice ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

House of Cards

Jessica Walsh

The sound of two fingers landing on the wooden table was soft, barely heard over the distant cheering. The card was drawn silently, slid across the table and placed face down. It was almost ironic ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Illuminations

B. Zara

This man was also well-acquainted with Death, so he invited It to tea on Thursday afternoon at his new beloved's rose garden. It seemed that Death was not stunned by this request, despite It being the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Liftoff

Marcelle Creak

The first time Minnie spoke to me was on the production line. We worked across from each other for six months twisting doodads into gizmos until our calluses had calluses. It was as boring as it ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The last ember

Janice Fok

3:28 pm, December 20th, 1960 Dear Santa. Please make them stop hitting me. Please make them love me like how my neighbours love their children. 
Leo never had a happy childhood, and soon enough ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Not Quite A Prisoner

Lydia Foster

Dear Diary, I am still a prisoner of war. My captors may let me roam, but I know what I am. Today, as I looked upon the trappings of my prison, I felt the tug of hunger pull me from my hiding place ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

An envelope for my heart

Katlego Mogorosi

Clutter!
The sound gives way. My pencil case, now fallen, as my stationery scatters itself non-uniformly across the floor. I kneel to pick it up. A hand, unexpected, assists me. Its counterpart is ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

All in for love

Chan Ka Wing

 The waiting room was as quiet as a graveyard, where Sarah could not ignore the ticking of the clock.   She sat on the edge of the seat, her palms were wet, like a patient waiting for the final ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Salmon Run

Luke Ang

Like sinews, so blush returned to the waters.
A pulse of scales and fins flickering red and tender in the waterways. Aback the shoal was a fever, pregnant and brutal in its abundance, that had ...  [+]