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Short Fiction
 5 min

Sparkles

Eliora Zahava

The brochure sat on my desk for three weeks before I opened it. I found it wedged between flyers for tutoring services and student apartment advertisements, its gold lettering catching the light every ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Trading Places

Assima Omarova

The morning greeted Claire in the usual way: with a grey New York sky. She walked into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. She would turn 37 that November. Did she feel 37? 30? 45? It was ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Where I End

Madrid Lim

The notice was taped inside the laundry room, between a lost-cat flyer and an ad for a used bike. EXCHANGE, it said. ONE WEEK EACH. YOU WILL COME BACK. It was two in the morning and the dryer had ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Decree

CH Lin

Once upon a time, there was a Kingdom called Gexoria. At the heart of Gexoria stood a sprawling tower made out of silver and gold, which gleamed softly in the moon's embrace. Within the tower's ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Dust of Nilapur

Ankit Jana

Let us take a walk through the heart of rural Bengal today. If you look toward the very edge of Nilapur village, past the winding dirt paths, you will see a humble thatched hut. A five-year-old boy ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Other Side of the Door (Coraline)

Sean Loh

The door was evidently smaller than I remembered. 
Kneeling in Coraline Jones's body, I turned the black key in my hand and stared blankly into the blue tunnel which I had seen countless of times ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Title at the End

Raimar Kanway

Pensively, I made my way inside. The door obliged the bell. The café was buzzing with life. My eyes scanned the room mechanically, inquiringly. There were only short tables left. Such a horror for a ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Project Rophe

Aceley Tan

Fairness is a fairytale that we preach, a gentle rule we try to teach. To humble those of gifted grace, to help children find virtue's place. We dream the good will find their peace, and wicked hands ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Your Diagnosis

Kelly Wong

YOUR RESULTS
I should've got a basket. I had come in for eggs, which was why I hadn't, but the milk was cheap and we were out of soy sauce, or would soon be. A bag of bread was squished ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Sterile Moon

Harold Binklebug

On the soon to be sterile surface of the moon, His body aching, He wandered up to a mass near the edge of a nearby dune. It resembled snowmen on earth, though this was made of dust and much stoute ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 3 min

Life as a human

Helen

Stepping into another life leads me to a world of possibility beyond my imagination. If I could wander into worlds unbeknownst to the common man, I am blinded by the possibility of a fate which ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Wishes

Wajiha Rahman

Everyone knew of the Iccha Pori, or the Wish Fairy, the same way everyone knew of the ruby amulet that had supposedly broken all treaties during the dark ages, or how they knew of how the best ...  [+]
Short Fiction