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Short Fiction and Poetry


A Question of Money by Eric Burbridge
“Larry, let me solve your financial difficulties…for five million dollars let me murder you?” Rocmon asked. [...]


Pathway Into Darkness; The Wren by Kenneth Vincent Walker
Nightfall is rapidly
Approaching fast
Encroaching on the
Faltering daylight;
On the pathway to
Castle Dracula in
The very heart [...]


Sea Creatures by Geoffrey Heptonstall
The birds were flying low as they approached land. They were always looking out for what may be in the mud and water of low tide. [...]


I Gave You My Reflection by Samuel Wise
I gave you my reflection
And became invisible
Like a phantom, called upon the night [...]


My Wife: Hardboiled Detective Noir by Louis Marvin
Did it ever get so bad, that your wife said please stop talking? [...]


YMCA: A Sign by Janet Lopes
As the leaves manifest their orange hues, I am happy, yet tears gush, showing no mercy. Seven months ago, we spent three days [...]


Pollutours Trash Island Excursions: $349.99 by M.W. Irving
The hours slap-chugging a microbial path
At a bacterial pace
Across the shrugging ocean’s skin
Has reduced many to choking eels, [...]


Japan Was On His Bucket List; The Tiger And The Strawberry: A Buddhist Story by Jacqueline Jules
Why did he have to go to Japan?
That May.
It was too far for an impulse trip.
Even old people book tickets [...]


I Yearn by Wendy Bloom
The bars hem me in
They are in truth phantoms
My sandals drag circles
In the damp sand
forming trenches of forgetting [...]


Outside The Rift by Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
Outside the clinic, the sun strikes white marble that covers the entire area, while the walls of glass on the right side [...]
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