Short Fiction and Poetry

The old man was as lean as a tough winter, and yet he never got cold. He wore a hoodie and tatty fishing gloves in January. [...]

Open a window, otherwise you’re living in a tomb. Avoid dying on a humid Wednesday, slumped in the communal vinyl throne [...]

Red has three distinct memories of his mother. He remembers the first smile she gave him. His twin sister Dahlia says he’s making up the memory [...]

Through the crack in my bedroom door, I hear someone say, “It’s as still as death out there.” The metaphor loses me. The dead are never still [...]

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I was equally relieved and annoyed that my father wasn’t home when we arrived. His cabin clung to a remote Vancouver Island riverbank [...]

Something brushes by and briefly blocks my line of sight as I peer through the keyhole in the dark oak door. [...]

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“Choose one!” The entity’s voice was commanding. It reminded Oscar of his mother’s voice when she’d yelled at him to eat his beets. [...]

Alien. To me. Like the creature from that movie, perhaps destined for space, an otherworldly reptilian [...]