Browsing Category Fiction

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    Fern Gully

    If, on a first and final return to your parents’ island as a unit, your family must choose between routes to Jamaica’s northern coast from Kingston, know this: ...

    On April 10, 2016 / By
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    The Masturbators

    From his spot at the center of the circle, Bryce unfolded a sheet of paper. Henry couldn't make out the creased image. He got up on tiptoes as ...

    On March 5, 2016 / By
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    Astronomy

    1. I was born in the Bronx, our building destined to become a burned-out tenement populated by rats, crack heads, meth heads, severed heads. We fled to the ...

    On December 28, 2015 / By
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    The Pervert

    The pervert came to Independence on Labor Day, the day before school started. Independence is our street, where we all live. ...

    On December 23, 2015 / By
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    Manger

    So I’m with Rosalie at Girl Scouts, like every Wednesday, and I’m passing out the manger pieces I pre-cut with my jigsaw at home.  That’s what Karen loves ...

    On September 4, 2015 / By
  • Insomnia by Alyssa L. Miller
    Fiction

    I Want To Tell You Something

    Was it your farting woke me? The next sound I hear is such a percussive, protracted arse bleat, and the stink of it hangs so heavy and sour over ...

    On August 7, 2015 / By
  • "Watching the Fire Burn" by Jonny Jelinek
    Fiction

    Fire Fetched Down

    Sometimes revelations provoked by a disaster can be even more devastating than the disaster itself. ...

    On July 26, 2015 / By
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    ONE OF THOSE CALLS

    Drunk and pensive, Chappy does not try and stop himself from calling his ex. Faced with her direct words, he looks, if only for a moment, at himself. ...

    On April 19, 2015 / By
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    Empty Summer Houses

    Stalking empty summer houses in Truro and Wellfleet was getting too strange. Today, he’d promised himself, was the last time ...

    On April 4, 2015 / By
  • Leaf in Pool by Kim Manley Ort
    Fiction

    By the Pool

    Autumn was near over – not that it mattered. In the dull heat Lady let her feet swirl in the pool, sucking her red popsicle, waiting for something ...

    On March 9, 2015 / By
  • Twins of Evil of Paul
    Fiction

    Cowardice

    My thin, barren aunt had twins. God was working through her; God, with his sick sense of humor. They came out of her like fiends in a horror ...

    On March 7, 2015 / By
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    Keepers

    I know that on good nights they’ll drink a decent bottle of wine or two and sit on their kitchen counters and play Catchphrase. They’ll yell at each ...

    On December 26, 2014 / By