FICTION | SHORT STORY
Character-driven stories of love and loss. Change and triumph. Laughter and fear. You name it, we’ll have it. Everything from literary to sci-fi to fiction.
When she hears his car door shut close behind him, Queen has just finished her…
Luz had faked a pregnancy in order to get the attention of her ex-boyfriend Johnny…
Adesanya’s sunken eyes show shadows and fire. The wet earth opens and moves under foot.…
When Lenaya is twenty-seven she begins to see pieces of her mama everywhere. In the…
The parents had been seduced by the impalpable sanctuary of a promise. They had been…
“Curse this damned place. I don’t want anything to do with here.” Holson, my best…
About time, Rose grumbled under her breath as she snatched up her two half-filled garbage…
At bedtime, the little girl I babysat grabbed my shirt and whispered, “Don’t go there.”…
The buzzer rang. In exactly three and a half minutes, she would be outside of…
