Fiction
Alfie's mind was cast back to the moment they first met. The day his life changed forever. He had been out walking aimlessly through the fields, miles from home, when he stumbled across the car. Jessica was inside.
Fiction
A Blue Blood Lady by Gwendolyn Kiste
Not until my parents were nestled comfortably in the family crypt did I attempt my first murder.
Fiction
What seemed to be important but presented as a vague thought, perched on the edge of my awareness.
Fiction
Covering his bike with a blind woven of magic and dead leaves, Jax dropped his bag on the ground and squatted beside it to find what would look to anyone else like a protein bar.
Fiction
"Can I see?" said Evan Danvers, peering over his daughter's shoulder. Emadalia quickly placed her tiny arms over the face of the drawing she was working on. "No," she replied. Her tone was unnervingly serious for a five-year-old. "Why not?" "It isn't safe." "Ema," said a newly suspicious Evan Danvers, "you need to show Daddy [...]
Fiction
Memories From a Distant Star By Jacob Steven Mohr
I shut my eyes and all the road noise dwindles to a rumble and then to nothing. My black Excursion fades to shadow, the steering wheel becomes mist in my hands.
Fiction
Inspiration by Stephen Faulkner
People ask me where I got the idea to do it all in the way that I did. I tell them that I got it from a book.
Poetry
Weeping for Tammuz by Lee Clark Zumpe
the cat has taken up a new spot in the window arching his head to watch the lazy swing of the Venetian blinds as afternoon breezes coax them to sway and sing a buzzing song a tidy row of tulips clings to the stone wall where the children used to build forts; father planted [...]
Poetry
Skeletons of New Year’s Eve by James Croal Jackson
Narrated by James Croal Jackson I do not perceive you as obsessed with death even if, days before, our jovial talks of dying led to sugar-frosted blue wondering at the sky. We planned to pop champagne for the birth of feeling alive: winter hardens soil so we must dig to the laughter [...]
Poetry
Narrated by Richard Stevenson Nittaewo, cousin of Teh-Ima, himself a relative of Orang Pendek – What the heck! Are all three cryptid proto pygmies really just relic populations of Pithecanthropus Erectus, AKA Homo Erectus, or what?! Short little humanoid boogers covered in reddish hair, they have all ignored roll call, so far; would [...]
Poetry
Introversion by Michelle Iannantuono
Narrated by Michelle Iannantuono I walk among a city of ghosts, where everyone looks the same. It's not the past that's haunting me, but a future worth weeping for. Locked in a box, lined with lead and salt, maybe straddling a fence inside. Both dead and alive but safe from what's pending, [...]
Flash
The Sandman’s Daughter by Rollin T. Gentry
Luna sat by the fireplace waiting patiently when the goose bumps on her arms told her that the sleepless children had returned. She could see them from the dining room window: translucent little spirits glowing dimly in the bright moonlight. The line started at the front door and disappeared into the forest. There hadn’t been [...]
Flash
Straight of Nemuro by Deborah Guzzi
All dead, all dead, Toitoi chews her lip. She ties the sash about her hand-me-down robe tighter and shoulders a log canoe into a calm sea. Salt water soaks her breeches, chafing the knobs of her knees. Bone-sore from hours of prayer at water’s edge, she finds the weight of the Ainu dugout almost too [...]