Fiction: I Play Per the Small Child’s Instruction by Kelly Dulaney
Now we’ll grow gills, the small child says. We feel for our earlobes and pull them into new shapes.
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Category Archives: Fiction
Flash Fiction: A Three-Step Manual for Living by Michael Blackburn
First, two to five (never all, never none) of the ant’s legs fly off from its thorax and abdomen.
Flash Fiction: Surface Tension by Thea Boodhoo
Holding onto something that burns her is a skill of will that will stay with her for decades, maybe her whole life. But she doesn’t know that yet.
Fiction: About As Fun As No Fun At All by M. S. Coe
This island is not what a typical person would think when you say Island for this island is man-made in its entirety.
Flash Fiction: I Know I Owe You Something by Jason Peck
I already know the order from the other night. A wrap, veggie. Fries on the side. The two gin and tonics I made disappear.
Fiction: Highly Classified by Eugenio Volpe
I welcome God to test me. Unlike Abraham, I’d turn the blade against him just for asking, for second-guessing my faith.
Fiction: Snow Men by Matt Forsythe
The brothers generate sound, but the rest of the landscape is silent—silent and cold, sixteen degrees when they left Dan’s truck at eleven.
Fiction: The Ladies’ Pond by Rebecca Koffman
She ends the story, always, exactly the same way. “That was one of the great conversations of my life.”
Flash Fiction: The Lord’s Bears by Carolyn Oliver
“After the prophet went away, they came for us.”
Fiction: Living Our Best Lives by Benjamin Woodard
There’s a different me out there who never met you. There’s a different you who left me at the altar and joined a cult.
