Short Fiction and Poetry

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 [...]

It is a peculiar quality of youth to believe that the world is arranged entirely for one’s own aesthetic consumption. We were seventeen [...]

In daylight songbirds flit in and out of bushes along our usual trail near the field and crows in threes sit in a particular dead tree beside the marsh [...]

A wide-faced, stocky man wearing a beard and a huge T-shirt reading “Still Thinking” pulled a squeaky red wagon down the hill towards Calvin.[...]

When Robert Jacobs opened his eyes that morning, he knew it would be his last. He wasn’t sick or in pain; he just knew. [...]

we walk by the river talking inside ourselves, like rhapsodies in two reflections- different, but the same. [...]

It’s always at this time of the year, when summer’s passage into winter starts. Everything changes when it gets cold and the day shortens. [...]