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Short Fiction
 5 min

Beige Gray Blue Gray

Katherine Strong

Beneath all of the hurt there was the beautiful reality that she had gotten exactly what she wanted. That the beige-gray-blue-gray cake frosted new walls in the new house buoyed by the white plastic ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

A Breakfast Caught in Catechism

Katie Ma

"If we were all suddenly somebody else." —James Joyce, Ulysses 
Whose ill-fated life have you entered? That of Leopold Bloom's. A man of thirty-eight years, residing at the address 7 ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Diospyros virginiana

Danica Torres

Those damned animals burnt me out of the estate. In the hours preceding, the wood became a cage, the glass warping into black, half-merged with the ebbing dream that sought to drag me into hellish ...  [+]
Short Fiction
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 ...  [+]