Stories
Farewell Myth
“Rusty” Randy McKinnon was his name.
Stephen Short
The Proposal
My room isn’t ready.
Christine Sandoval
He Came to Her in a Dream
She looks up to a sky that is round and iridescent like a soap bubble.
Grace Wanebo
Blame Rupert
Sean was only eleven when his family acquired Rupert…
Matias Travieso-Diaz
The Gazpacho Soup is Delicious
Laurel woke in a familiar terror, her sheets damp, head pounding…
Makayla Carmichael
Eldercare
It’s November 11. I’ve just taken my two daughters to…
Deborah Blenkhorn
Needles
The phone started ringing again. Why did telemarketers…
Patrick Michael Denny
Supernova
“Did you know that if the sun exploded we wouldn’t know for eight minutes?
Jillian Laux
The Strangled Road
Things were moving the right way from my point of view…
Daniel Frears
The Strangled Road
Things were moving the right way from my point of view…
Daniel Frears
One Last Thing to Do
“Success leaves you tied up like a crate with a net around it”
Doug Dawson
Last Night
Now, with your temporary elopement drawing to an end, every minute spent together was…
Yuan Changming
Spinning Wheels
Not quite half a block from the busy intersection, Moser saw the light turn green…
T.R. Healy
Rogue
I know what it means to be transparent. I experience it on a daily basis…
Susanna Saracco
Duplicitous Faith and The Train
Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother.
Emily Simon
Two Roads
It’s not that Jim didn’t love Alice Chin.
Michael Chin
Old Fitzgerald
By the third ring of the doorbell, I had to accept that I wasn’t…
Anna Schmidt
We Came as Babes
The pendulum in the grandfather clock was too tired to swing…
Shana Raphaeli
The Daisy Gambit
Jen and I hopped off the bus, walked uphill a while, then found the motel.
Mitchell Montagna
The Mourning
I park at the clearing they use for boat trailers.
Martin Keaveney
A Brush With Fame
Few people had heard of a tiny suburb on the outskirts of Mumbai, which went by…
Prabha Girish
Real Men Don’t Cry
Three days after my father’s funeral, my brother and I arrived in Kyoto, Japan…
Ernest Langston
In Our Neighborhood
The Harts were going to give a party.
Alice Ruth Moore
Historical Sketches of Andover: Chapter V
There is a tradition in regard to the bravery of a negro servant…
Sarah Loring Bailey
Mami’s Daughter
In the largest rivers of Nigeria, there dwells a beautiful woman.
BLESSING NNATE
Sweet Tooth
It was a great date.
MEGAN PETRONELLA
My Mother’s First Husband and Us
My mother has been married three times, which she might sheepishly admit to you…
MARCUS KNOKE
The Man in the Iron Mask
Chapter XVIII: A Night at the Bastile
Pain, anguish, and suffering in human life…
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Conquest
Chapter III: Chicago, Chasing A Will-O-The-Wisp
That was on Sunday morning three hundred miles south of Chicago…
OSCAR MICHEAUX
Sir Steven and the Ginko Grove
Steven’s snapping up breathless in bed, gaping at the wall paper rich with pink…
Bennett Kremen
Connected@Panama
A private funeral service by invitation. The newspaper notice said it all.
R. P. Singletary
A Story of Vengeance
Yes, Eleanor, I have grown grayer.
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
The Fire in the Flint
Chapter II
Situated in the heart of the farming section of the State…
Walter F. White
A Great Kingdom in the Congo
I had studied the new dialect of the Bakuba….
William Henry Sheppard
The Accident
Behind me in the dark, the siren from the Polizia winds down.
Gary Duehr
Cusping
Lauren and I were born so late in Gemini season…
Colleen Alles
Notes From the Underground
Part I – Underground
Chapter I
I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Go, Falcons!
Ryan runs through the eight count, singing along to the song in her head.
Shaquira McInnis
This Way to the Warden’s Office
The colony looked like it would sink into the bog of permafrost underneath it but it never did.
Arthur Velker
The Kiss
It was still quite light out of doors…
Kate Chopin
Family Bible
The girl probably thought she was being sly, sneaking around back of his tractor shed like that.
Marco Etheridge
A.R.M.
Nobody taught me how to use a condom.
Odi Welter
War and Peace:
Chapter XXIV
There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess…
Leo Tolstoy
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African
I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity…
Olaudah Equiano
A Daughter of the Samurai:
Chapter 4 – The Old and the New
I was about eight years old when I had my first taste of meat.
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
A Warrior’s Daughter
In the afternoon shadow of a large tepee, with red-painted smoke lapels, sat a warrior father with crossed shins.
Zitkala-Sa
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