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Short Fiction
 2 min

Balloons Above

Jen Eason

Her eyes were bright, but somewhere else. If they shone on you it was blinding, the intensity of her focus. Like she saw no one, no thing, else. But you can’t hold on to light. And just as often as it ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

The World From Above

Susan Thomas

**An Angel’s Perspective on the Pandemic**

For centuries I watched the world mourn over their loved ones. I go to the hospitals and visit bedsides. Every night, I sit with the widows and the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 1 min

The Car Rides

Sofia Navarro

Sometimes they’d let the radio sing the silence away, other times their laughter did the work, but in the car rides from town to city there was no certainty of peace.
Inside the silver vessel, a ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

In the Distant Future

Camden Greenhalgh

Green plasma bolts filled the air; three beleaguered Imperium soldiers hid among collapsed ruins, desperate to avoid death. But the God-Emperor’s will was clear. Humanity could not to allow the Xennid ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Hair of the dog

Wendy Klein

“So I think we’re pretty satisfied with your qualifications here on our end,” Mary said.
Sarah nodded from across the desk. Outside, the sunlight of 9:30 a.m. shone across the glass table in the ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

New Recruits

Cynthia Beck

Day 256, 1600 hours
Their ship gently glided towards the waiting station below. Raz shifted uncomfortably in his new uniform as he watched the shiny mass slowly approach. Today was his first day as ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Oak & Willow, Water & Omens

Bayley Leyshon

They never faltered. Anyone could tell from simply being in their presence that they were not of this world. They raced through the water unafraid, not tied down by the laws of physics that constrict ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

The Third Step

Megan Venter

I remember the third step up to your apartment creaked really badly. I’d always skip it- I didn’t want anything- not even a wooden step- to know where I was going. As if it would only count that I was ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 5 min

Atmospheric BreakPoint

Nicolas Sollors

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On the way to our floats, we passed the usual scenery: the government and hunter floats, the food outlet, and The Dome 4278 Dispensary.

The Dispensary was an imposing metallic structure ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

Belittling Love

Anmol DHAWAN

I befriended her in kindergarten. She was not any of those over-the-top adjectives you would use to describe your best friend. Overall, she was an ordinary four-year old that had grabbed my attention ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Crystal Ball

Sarah Lindsey

What a fraud. Lies, lies, lies.
Cindy was so mad. Two years ago she had seen this day and, today, it had finally come.
It had been a strange day, that afternoon two years prior. She had run ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

The Stage

Linglin Yang

20 minutes ago,......
Teresa’s on her way to go home.
Well, her husband, Square Bob was washing dishes in the kitchen.
Phone rang.
“hello?”
“yes, it’s Square Bob.”
(we can’t ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Astronaut

Victoria Gong

When Logan Shu blew up, the world knew her as the first Asian American woman in space. Her Internet fanbase often compared her odd facial expressions to the late Grumpy Cat. They knew she’d gotten he ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

The Fix

Bianca Sauro

The first words I ever heard my mother say were, “Fix it.”
A man responded to her then, I remember it clearly, though it was still dark for me.
He said, “Are you sure this is what you want ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

The Hotel

Liza Craig

It's a weird thought, a strange feeling, cold and unsettling, like a dank wet basement illuminated by a single 40 watt light bulb swinging from an unknown force.
Your hands and palms sweat ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

More than Revenge

Eugenia Trevino De Coss

Alice had just arrived in front of Sara’s house, knocking at her front door, hearing her conscience complain about what she did to her best friend and tears came down her face, as she had no idea what ...  [+]