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Category: Fiction

April 25, 2025 Fiction

Double Date

Joanna Acevedo Last August I went on a double date with my friend Abby and her new boyfriend and a

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April 4, 2025 Fiction

Those Lilies!

Svetlana Turetskaya When Jim, her ex-husband, sent her a package with some “old things,” she was not surprised, for he

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March 14, 2025 Fiction

Teachers

Laine Perry I had become the teacher’s pet by default.  The rest of the kids were idiots. A few may

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March 7, 2025 Fiction

The Fire

Swetha Amit When I got home from work, I found Ma running out of the front door, naked and dripping

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February 1, 2025 Fiction

Security Deposit

Sarah Banse Mario, the landlord, a short thick man with a heavy Italian accent, rehabbed the apartment before we moved

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January 17, 2025 Fiction

One of the Guys

Nicole Walker There’s a line in Jenny Lewis’s song Just One of the Guys that goes something like “No matter

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December 20, 2024 Fiction / One-sentence Stories

Unsaid

Epiphany Ferrell It was a clear night, moon distant, not quiet, too many spring peepers and crickets for that, and

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December 13, 2024 Fiction / One-sentence Stories

The Wintering

Maureen Aitken My mother says my father’s 30-pound weight loss is the result of a renewed commitment to his health,

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December 6, 2024 Fiction

Anxiety Is Like

Amy Goldmacher You’re making a cup of tea: you turn on the gas burner but it doesn’t light, and you

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