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Short Fiction
 2 min

The Door

Aubrey Dickens

Do not open the door.
Merely contemplate opening the door.
Wonder why the door is there in the first place.
Look around. Notice the surrounding area. Notice the lack of trees. Notice the ai ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Wild

EMILY LEFEVRE

Ours was the wildest of starts.
I remember the guests of our wedding, leaving with smiles pleasantly lit on their faces, heard a group of our cousins murmur happily things like “buzzworthy,” ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

The First Word of the World

Aster Yan Cheng

She sat by her master’s bedside. The master wizard had been badly injured by the undead during the day’s battle and would likely not survive the night.
“Come here, I have one last thing to teach ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

A Day in Blyth

Jaden Lee

“Did you hear about SADS?”
“What?”
“Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome.”
“What’s that supposed to be?”
“Don’t you read the news, Archie?”
Archie shrugged lamely, unable to refute his ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

It’s Just Wood

Lisa Christensen

The spiderweb of the plum tree's bare branches let through a shaft of light just bright enough that it illuminated the sawdust that puffed forward with every stroke of the handsaw. Alynn focused on ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Wine Salt With Tears

Brittney Hatchett

They call him the god of wine. Patron of madness and revelry. Deity of theatre and protector of the confused, the misfit, and the outcast. His names include Eleutherios, the liberator. Bacchus ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 4 min

The First Fall

Abigayle Hobby

Have you ever wondered why the leaves turn brilliant shades of red and orange in the fall? It’s quite the story actually. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with chlorophyll or the earth's tilt. I ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Clasped

Skylar Gruys

He moved in, hand clutching hand as I was pushed into the wall. The sky was eerie bright, the half-moon large, sparked light.

It was our third date, a monumental first step. The first had ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Fate

CK Jensen

I believe in fate.
And today, I can feel it.
Today is the day where fate brings me true love.
My yellow raincoat twists around me as I dance down the hall. The other tenants in my apartment ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

A Spoon Full of Sugar

Emma Hostetter

I found it in his gray suit coat while doing some cleaning. It was in a white marbled box tucked in his coat pocket. I knew it was meant to be a surprise, but I couldn’t help my fingers from sliding ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

Susannah Lee

Dahlia Breiter

On the southern banks of the Susquehanna, when the last dregs of winter were melting away- that’s when I first met my true love. Her name was Susannah Lee, and I had never seen anything quite like ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Sertraline

Nikki Gallant

When I was six, a seed took root in my body. Though small, it had a profound effect. I was young and naïve, and this new part of me was like a new toy for me to break in. I fed it, watered it and gave ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Kissing Carrie

Riley McGreer

Carrie Jackson wasn’t a normal child.

Science had always been her favorite subject, studying life and death and the cycle that all things had to go through in some form or another. After weeks ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Decisions

ANDRES CORREA

After twelve hours of no sleep and no food, tightly handcuffed to a chair and sitting in the middle of the US-Mexico border control office, an old woman of seventy-five years called Magdalena ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

The Sunflower

Bethany Sycamore

As the seedling emerged from the warm and cozy earth, it gloried in the sun above. It always turned its tender leaves to the sun’s filling heat and one day, the bud upon the top, burst open. At last ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

Red Lights

Christena Oldham

Of all the odd habits children develop with their parents, Sam’s was truly peculiar. The rubbery strap of his mother’s wristwatch felt so beefy in between his teeth. The sound of the material’s ...  [+]
Short Fiction