Fiction: In Vain the Snake Slides by Jad Josey
“If a man looks to have been drinking, steer clear of em, Jenner. You hear?” Auntie’s eyes were sharp and clear. I had never seen them any other way. […]
Category Archives: Fiction
She Does Not Have to Burn by Alison Wisdom
The sun is not the jealous type. He doesn’t feel the need to be, and why would he? He warms us and gives us light; he makes things grow. Look […]
Throwback Thursday: Undoing by Kim Magowan
Reasons to do it: To get you out of my system. Because the reality of you can never match the fantasy – no matter how great you are, how skillful, […]
Fiction: The Caretaker by Nathan Leslie
I am a volunteer at the county park. Once a week I drive fifteen minutes to the wooded, twenty five point seven acre lot which features tennis courts, a soccer […]
Flash Fiction: Known Facts about God by Temim Fruchter
Technically, she loved Moshe Ber. At least her eyes went swimmy when she thought of him or when anyone else said his name. He went to the boys’ school in […]
Flash Fiction: Honor by Shawn Goodman
Lucky told me the seconds before you die count the most. Which is why I howled when they come for his body at sunrise, two fat men in a pickup, […]
Flash Fiction: The Ochre Hotel of Stockholm by Kirby Wright
Past residents? Victims of the plague, a garrison of soldiers, and that bald hooker with the gold-studded tongue. There was also the defrocked priest chanting psalms during Holy Week.
Flash Fiction: The Flasher by Jaime Fountaine
If you stare at a man and don’t break eye contact, a grown one especially, it makes them nervous. There’s nothing a man can do to you for looking at him that way. Not in front of people.
Flash Fiction: The Year She Lived on the Bus by Margaret Adams
She was always in motion and yet she stayed within the same thirty-six rows of seats, holding still while landmarks rocketed by.
Flash Fiction: Real Property by Neil Serven
It was a neighborhood of loose cats, sprinklers that fitzed up at dawn. Motorbikes would tear by too fast, Sheri said. She and Will were settling in. Everyone was genuinely happy for them.
