Fiction: Skywatch by Jessie Lovett Allen
No, this isn’t anxiety—anxiety is defined by uncertainty. But she is certain.
Category Archives: Fiction
Flash Fiction: A Breathing Thing by Suzy Rigdon
In daylight, your scars vary in color, from brownish to pale pink to white.
Fiction: Whiskers by Karen Smythe
I leaned down and kissed her hand, and I didn’t care if people looked. She was my mother, after all.
Fiction: People by Ron Riekki
It’s funny what a sentence in a book can do. It sticks in your head. Lies seems to stick even harder than the truth.
Fiction: St. Ignace by Doug Ross
What I did remember was a sketch the police found of a boy screaming—that it was supposed to have looked like an actual boy. If not Teddy Ehrlich, then someone real.
Creative Nonfiction/Flash: Some Things Your Third Grader Needs to Know by Michelle Ross
If men stare at him while he pees, it’s because they’re checking his credentials.
Flash Fiction: Two International Idioms Reimagined as Short Fiction by Meredith Wadley
Yet drafts come in many forms. Winds blow from many directions.
Fiction: Fish by Julia Gerhardt
She talks about these fish like they’re men who cheated on their wives.
Flash Fiction: For When The Dishes Pile Up by E.J. Schwartz
Housework is a marriage like any other, your mother told you once.
Flash Fiction: Too Long by Mason Binkley
But most likely it was a combination of these events that explains what happened on the last Sunday of summer.
