Fiction: Impulse Control by Kim Magowan
That paperweight breaks my heart, because I identify with it—I feel like a blue flower immobilized in heavy glass.
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Tag Archives: Fiction
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Fiction: You Belong to Yesterday by John Kazanjian
Nostalgia is like sweet poison, in a way.
Fiction: The Hopefuls by Suzanne Dottino
There is no loneliness like theirs.
Fiction: Freezer Burn by Charlie Watts
“The thing is, nothing lasts like they say it will. Believe me. Your hamburgers, your chicken breasts, your pork chops – all the animals – they go gray even when you double-wrap.”
