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Short Fiction and Poetry
Join Us by Lauren Farmer
“I knew when we met that you’d be perfect. I’m about to give you the opportunity of a lifetime,” [...]
We All Die Young by Paden Smith
We all die young,
For the decrepit existence
is no longer living.
Blue-hot vigor cruelly fleeting [...]
The Starer by Carys Crossen
Every night, unfailing. Regular as a metronome, he would peer in, eyes as pale as mushrooms and blank as boiled eggs. [...]
The Old Leather Suitcase by Sugar De Santo
Disappeared. Without a trace. Without a reason. People vanish, without notice.
There was an old medium-sized dark leather suitcase [...]
Shortlist Saturdays: A Blind Eye by Christopher Butt
Casey Johnson stared at the old three-storey house and shuddered. The light from the full moon cast a sinister shadow over the estate.[...]
Shortlist Saturdays: Dead Crow Walking by Emily De Angelis
Why do crows walk off asphalt when they can fly
away from carrion
and car
to road’s edge?
Is it just corvid attitude [...]
Danger Noodle by Melissa Ridley Elmes
What at first appeared to be a thick green vine clinging to the trunk of the ancient tree past which she was walking [...]
Rusty by Richard Krause
When at first Rusty the Poodle got hit with a golf ball, everyone ran up wobbly to him [...]
Klarkie's Christmas by Ernest Youhouse
Of all the characters that inhabit my childhood memories, few have reached the prominence of Klark Lionel Elyon Gold. He was mute [...]
My Dreams Write Me Too; Break A Leg by Hibah Shabkhez
Each stone of these stairs rasps like a regret,
Like the memory of a child's flushed face
Clouding with hurt, [...]
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