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Short Fiction and Poetry


Shortlist Saturdays: Thread of Indignity by Melissa Ridley Elmes
Gavin Helmscott III had lived, if you could call what he did living, nearly three centuries whole and unmolested, if a bit faded of late[..]


Shortlist Saturdays: Salvation by Petar Penda
An insidious intent tells our inner selves
Of sacrifice and solitude, suspense and sacrilege,
Of sorrows and souls' starvation [...]


Nemesis Bird by Jodi Di Menna
Elsie sat at the forest’s edge, her back against the deeply grooved bark of a fallen walnut tree. A moment earlier, three short [...]


A Little Night Music; Grandfather's Tale by James Langford
Disturbing. Is there someone there?
What rides upon night’s lonely air
through frost and fog? A distant sound
at time of night when [...]


Damaged Mementos by Banafshe Sharokhi
A faded rain-covered photograph leaking all color and pigment…
A vivid moment, immersed in love and rapture, nostalgia [...]


Interface by Deborah Blenkhorn
The staff at the Arbourview Respite Centre were calling Louisa’s next-of-kin for instructions. The time had come to say good-bye. [...]


Shortlist Saturdays: DEAR ARTIST: IN PLACE OF WHAT I CANNOT SPEAK by Vikki C.
This instrument I cannot tune between your ribs.
Inside these shadowlands of birch and pine,
your own svelte tongue ripe with sunlight.[...]


Shortlist Saturdays: Gumballs by Rene F. Tyo
That toy called to her. It wasn’t anything special: likely only cost four bucks brand new. However, something about this [...]


Rejuvenation by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
Tracing (enjoying) with her tongue the silhouette of the four new teeth she'd acquired since her last incarnation. Ah, lovely, so slick[..]


Memory Meditation by William Campbell
There is something in my mind holding me back from what I wish to achieve, it is simply one desire after another – another goal [...]
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