Fiction from Stephen Tuttle
Ransom We paid because what choice did we have? Mom signed the papers on the mortgage and emptied the savings account and collected what she could from family. At the credit union, they turned all that money into a wire transfer and then, zip, it was nothing more than a thin receipt. After that, we […]
Fiction from Tim Goldstone
Photo: Jez Timms The Breakthrough After so long enthusiastically exploring my psychological wreckage in your Californian way, “talking it all out” you loved to say—more sledgehammer than scalpel—you eventually found my black box weeks after you ceased your official excavation; and you’d actually been happier for calling off the search, calm, contented, before accidentally stumbling […]
Fictions from Christine H. Chen
Photo: Fran Jacquier Osteonecrosis Ah Ma’s incessant moaning drove Ba to his grave. I took his place bearing the avalanche of her rants. The price of an onion, the handyman tracking dirt inside the hallway, Ba’s ghost not helping her find her eyeglasses, a squirrel burying nuts in her potted tomato plant. Her tirades slowed […]
Fiction from Alexis Jamilee Carter
Photo: Kind and Curious You’ve Left a Candle Burning, and It Seeks Revenge Henrietta St. Claire’s home is going up in flames. The fire department isn’t on the way. Neighbors huddle together across the street, whispering their horror and pity. They do not speak of their gratitude for detached housing. They all think the other […]
Fiction from Elliott Gish
Photo: Kostiantyn Vierkieiev Nestling They called a curfew in Laherty after Rufus Orville got snatched. By 6 PM, all the kids in the neighborhood had to be inside. That damn near killed us, since it was summer. We’d watch the blazing sun from the shadows of our bedrooms, thinking of all the fun we could […]
Fiction from Debbie Graber
Photo: Liam Briese My Thesis Hypothesis: Googling “Online Master’s degree programs in Psychology” can have life-changing consequences. Preface: I’ve almost completed my Master’s degree in Psychology. This program has definitely been “super challenging.” (citation: Guam Online University YouTube infomercial). Re: 2nd Hypothesis: I’m not sure what my thesis topic is exactly. But I have to […]
Fiction from Tommy Dean
Photo: Heather McKean Fastened to the Curve of the Earth The sand fastened to her body, invading the spaces between limbs, magnifying the sound of her heart in her ears, matching the crush of the waves. Faith is old enough to worry about death, but young enough not to notice the boys looking at her […]
Fiction from Lillie E. Franks
Photo: Danika Perkinson The Encyclopedia of Endings – And they lived happily ever after. – And she returned to her old town and her old life, where she finally realized that, wide as the world is, sometimes the grass is greenest right where you started off. – So he skipped away, jumping from one planet […]
Fiction from Karly Noelle Abreu White
Photo: Them Holmes Sea Born William was gone, which meant it was time for the sisters to get to work. He seemed to run their every day and hour when he was present, but as soon as he left, it was like the spell was broken. They were a team again. The sisters were Ida […]
Fiction from Nicholas Grider
Photo: Denise Jans Stock Footage: A Love Story Here is a picture of a studiously thin white man in a light blue button-down Oxford shirt, tan slacks, and tasseled loafers. He stands in the light gray void of an empty office, not quite smiling, not quite distressed. He is giving you his thumbs up to […]
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