Short Circuit - Short Circuit #18

Short Fiction

Suspense & Mystery 5 min

Old Age Blues

It was Yolkov who bought Hanna's ticket on the overnight flight from Warsaw to JFK. Hair streaked with gray, she wore the blue dress purchased on sale for eighteen dollars.
"Better to fly late ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Nostalgia 2 min

Dreams on the interstate of forests and mountains

Henrietta Mosforth

The house takes a day to dismantle. Goodwill gets the furniture. Meghan sets a ground rule for the rest: George is allowed three seconds to decide where each thing should go: in the car (to be driven ... [+]

Short Fiction

Quirky Sci-Fi & Fantasy 3 min

Therapy

Brittany Story

"It happened again," Myriam said, as she entered the room. "I screwed up. I'm sorry." She collapsed on the couch, head in her hands. "I just wanted a sip. I thought I had a handle on this ... [+]

Short Fiction

Magical Realism 4 min

Lago das Estrelas

Catherine Tavares

In the springtime, after the clouds of winter and before the storms of summer, when the skies were clear and the waters still, Abel went star-catching. The other villagers thought him daft, of course ... [+]

Short Fiction

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 4 min

Through Grief

Brandon Case

Joseph it can't be
"Will you sacrifice?"

This isn't real. I'd never let it happen.

I sit cross-legged in a meadow of four colors and all around me blue. Grass grows from my thighs ... [+]

Short Fiction

Love & Loss Sorrow Suspense & Mystery 5 min

What Happened That Night

P.A. Cornell

Josh is gone, but I see him everywhere. Even now, it's his reflection I see in the puddle as the storm brings me back to reality. I shiver. Seems I'm always cold these days. I need to get my shit ... [+]

Short Fiction

Joy 2 min

Be Mine

Carmela M-U

They sat together in comfortable silence, having been in each other's company for over ten years.
One of their favourite places was on the swing chair, overlooking the backyard, gently moving ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

Society 4 min

The Chicken Chase of Banyumas

Fendy S. Tulodo

Deep in the heart of Central Java, tucked between rolling green hills and sprawling rice fields, lay the quiet village of Banyumas. Life moved slowly there—too slowly for Darto, a twelve-year-old ... [+]

Children's

Sci-Fi & Fantasy 5 min

The Collector

Paula Thompson

Theo traced the pattern with his finger. An ammonite. He didn't need the brass name plate to tell him that; the fossils were his favourite exhibit. Not as shout-out-loud as the dinosaur skeletons ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Old Age Blues

Dreams on the interstate of forests and mountains

Therapy

Lago das Estrelas

Through Grief

What Happened That Night

Be Mine

The Chicken Chase of Banyumas

The Collector