Short Fiction and Poetry

The Butterfields arrived at the grand Monument Avenue Victorian as darkness was taking over. Nine-year-old Robin sat with his mother in the black Lincoln’s back seat during the long trip [...]

The café spilled out onto the street. Small tables and thin metal chairs that rocked if you leaned too far back. [...]

“It’ll make your job easier,” my boss said. “It’ll take my job,” I said. “Eventually.” He patted my shoulder and left me with the robot. [...]

From the height of the second-floor balcony, my dad hung every year a few flowerpots to cover the building’s missing chunks of plaster [...]

Lou saw the red van as soon as he turned the corner. He was just a minute away from reaching the shop. [...]

In 1987, Stony worked the counter at the Presto Lounge, deep inside The Mumbles, a neighborhood already known for its poverty and crime [...]

It was finally here. Presentation day. The moment that could define the trajectory of his career. Jake had stayed up late [...]

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Bea dips chicken breast into egg yolk before coating them in panko breadcrumbs. She’s making her famous chicken parmesan for dinner. [...]

When I was a little girl, I wanted to read the weather. The lady would come on our screen just after the news was done. [...]

I’m just hanging around this cramped room awaiting the dreaded words, “You're up next , kid”. Pacing up and down like a caged animal [...]

When my father was stationed on that beautiful bay with its long, uninhabited peninsula, we lived in officer quarters [...]

I gave each line a fair start but finished only a few. After the first page, I was eager to sign so I quickly flipped to the second. [...]

Maybe it was the fact that it was day three out of five on her own with the kids — Richard was away on business again [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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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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