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Short Fiction and Poetry


Emilie by Nina Trifan
Who is the woman living inside me, under this marmalade skin sagging at the seams, with calcified hands darkened by chocolate-brown spots [...]


Drawstrings by Brandon Shane
Living among the beach gulls,
the turtles crawling back into the ocean
are torches battling the salty wind [...]


Shells; Cash by Tom Barlow
Sure, an oyster holds secrets
but I own an oyster knife.
I can read that thought
every morning in my
lover's eyes as I wake her [...]


The Last Blood-Mouth by Paul Hilding
I wake to a ragged scream followed by a series of muffled whimpers. Then, violent retching. It takes a moment to get my bearings. I’m lying on the couch in the living room.


MOBIUS TIME by Dr. Deepak Dev
Let t be time, a linear axis—or so we believe.
Yet time does not move forward; it folds: [...]


Pride by E. P. Lande
“You must have read about Irwin; it was all over the news,” John told me during dinner. John had invited me to visit him at his cottage [...]


Your Ghost by Gary Garafola
Why does your ghost attach itself to me
What raving aching delights it so
To lick at my fingers in fever’s chill [...]


The Perks of the Job by Chris Butt
“So, what you’re telling me, Mr. Thanatos, is that you’re depressed about your job.”
The man sitting in the chair across from her nodded. [...]


Shortlist Saturdays: the day after my dad died by Nancy Daoust
the day after my dad died i find my way back to the fallen white pine slide my sad body inside a pelt-soft opening...


Shortlist Saturdays: Delivery by Nancy Waddell
“Sweet!” Rick grinned as his cell pinged with a new order from the DeliveryToGo App. Easy money, man. He took his phone with him [...]
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