Category: Short Fiction

Zone Cook Mechanism

Oli Johns June 5, 2023

We Interrupt This Program

Taryn Frazier June 5, 2023

A Catalog of Gifts from a Crow

Jo Miles May 8, 2023

Just the Two of You

Laura Barker May 4, 2023

The Sea Hare

Wailana Kalama May 1, 2023

Paper Teeth

Mare Knaupp April 24, 2023

Through the Glass, a Full Sea

P.H. Low April 17, 2023

In Her Wake

Elis Montgomery April 4, 2023

Clonely Hearts Club

Marie Pabelonio March 6, 2023

Soulbirds

Sylvia Heike February 6, 2023

The Treachery of Objects

Dylan Kingsley January 31, 2023

Luis, the Last Time

Rachel Lastra January 30, 2023

The Bones Are Hungry

Joshua Jones Lofflin January 23, 2023

Oh Jackie

Wess Mongo Jolley January 16, 2023

The Pruner

M Leigh December 29, 2022

The Witch’s Hat

Joy Weimer November 30, 2022

Wing/Flower

Endria Isa Richardson November 7, 2022

Solo le quedaron ocho

elena félix November 3, 2022

Then there were eight

elena félix November 3, 2022

A, B, B, A

Russell Nichols October 31, 2022

Ajar

Coby Rosser October 26, 2022

Entre cráteres, nosotros

Ana Hurtado October 24, 2022

The Hungry Tree

Auden Patrick October 17, 2022

The Plain

A.M. Guay September 28, 2022

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Miasma

Shannon Massey August 29, 2022

INFINITE CLAY-TABLET MEMORIES SUNG INTO THE FLESH OF THE WORLD

Ann LeBlanc August 4, 2022

Just One Death

Matt Richardson August 1, 2022

The Navigator

Alicia Haberski July 27, 2022

Heart-Eater

Tania Chen July 25, 2022

A Personal Apocalypse

Léon Othenin-Girard July 18, 2022

The Exclusion Clause in the Small Print of Life

Tim Hickson June 29, 2022

Incunabulum Absurdum

Coby Rosser May 24, 2022

The Grief Portal

Aun-Juli Riddle May 5, 2022

Hitchhiker

Lindz McLeod May 2, 2022

You Were Not Made For This

Spencer Nitkey April 27, 2022

A Spring Divine

Armaan Kapur April 25, 2022

Six Steps to Become a Saint

Avi Burton April 18, 2022

Letters from Roger

Emily Sanders March 28, 2022

I lack a sense of direction on some spatial coordinates

Lucy Zhang February 24, 2022

The Goblins of South India

Naethan Pais February 3, 2022

She Calls

Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas January 31, 2022

The Impossible Task of Bringing Water

Amanda Cook January 26, 2022

Tea and Owls

Teresa Milbrodt January 24, 2022

Silver Bells

Jaime Marvin January 17, 2022

Knowing How to Listen

Carter Lappin December 28, 2021

Bee Kept

Jordan Hirsch November 29, 2021

Lavender, Juniper, Gunpowder, Smoke

Alyson Grauer November 8, 2021

Feudal Superstition

Yiwen Bu November 4, 2021

Cocoon

Atreyee Gupta November 1, 2021

After the Salt

Nicole Tan October 27, 2021

A Home for the Hungry Tide

Alexandra Singer October 25, 2021

Flock of Words and Wonder

Marie Croke October 18, 2021

A Price on Her Head

Marilee Dahlman September 28, 2021

Ka-thump

Jennifer R. Povey August 26, 2021

I Wear My Spiders in Remembrance of Myself

Kel Coleman August 5, 2021

She Dreams in Bronze

Sylvia Ho August 2, 2021

Fruit and Claw

Shelby Dollar July 28, 2021

The Godmaker’s Cure

December Cuccaro July 26, 2021

Mushroom Head

Marla Bingcang July 19, 2021

THE THINGS REFLECTIONS SAY

Jamie Perrault June 29, 2021

The Swamp Exchange

Laura Barker May 6, 2021

Watcher, Worker

Rona Fernandez April 29, 2021

Madame of the Vein

Anna Madden April 28, 2021

Bride, Knife, Flaming Horse

M.L. Krishnan April 26, 2021

Queen Minnie’s Last Ride

Aimee Ogden April 19, 2021

That Crimson Flight

Sadie Fox Curtis March 25, 2021

Redlands

Jay Harper February 15, 2021

Never Just a Necklace

Ashland East February 11, 2021

Shark Girls

Caroline Diorio February 8, 2021

Honey and Mneme

Marika Bailey February 1, 2021

With the Nectar Comes the Sting

Jennifer Hudak January 25, 2021

Commodities

Zebib K.A. January 18, 2021

The Last Bookseller of Saint Paul

Jordan Hirsch December 29, 2020

Shattered Moon, Hungry Sea

Elou Carroll November 24, 2020

The Gorgon’s Epitaphist

KT Bryski November 5, 2020

A Bird Always Wants More Mangoes

Maria Dong November 2, 2020

Living Ghosts

Taylor Rae October 28, 2020

Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise

Lauren Ring October 26, 2020

You Do What You’re Told

J.A.W. McCarthy October 19, 2020

The Banquet

Lindy Biller September 24, 2020

At Night, The Old Mothers Come

Ana Gardner August 26, 2020

Once Upon Night

Once Upon a Night

Sam Muller August 4, 2020

Saying Sorry

Rebecca Fung July 30, 2020

The Truth of a Lie

Jeff Reynolds July 23, 2020

Black Bird’s Song

Tamoha Sengupta July 22, 2020

limits of magic

The Limits of Magic

Samantha Mills July 16, 2020

Hummingbird

Laura Barker June 25, 2020

53:09:41

Breanna Teramoto May 21, 2020

The Order of Stolen Hearts

Xan van Rooyen May 5, 2020

What the Water Gave Her

Avra Margariti April 30, 2020

Grief Trawling

Suzanne J. Willis April 29, 2020

Possible Human Hearts

Lyndsie Manusos April 23, 2020

The Bear Wife

Leah Bobet April 16, 2020

Bird Bath

Meredith Maloof April 2, 2020

Mold

Marcella Haddad February 27, 2020

You Can Check Out Any Time You Like

Rhonda Eikamp February 3, 2020

The Red Scarf

M. Kaur January 29, 2020

One Song Ending

E.A. Petricone January 27, 2020

Passavanti’s Fantasima

Julia August January 23, 2020

The Redoubtables

Premee Mohamed January 16, 2020

100% True

Emma Levin December 26, 2019

The Hunter Speaks His Name

Dmitri Christopher November 27, 2019

A Gentler Sky

Amelia Sirina November 4, 2019

A Word for What We Have

Jennifer Hudak October 31, 2019

Paula

H. Pueyo October 30, 2019

An Account of the Defeat of Earth’s Conqueror

Adam Lee Weatherford October 24, 2019

Ilyas’ Egg

Sameem Siddiqui October 17, 2019

Black Magic

Gomezyani Morton Msiska September 26, 2019

The Wolf of Pendarvis

Genevieve Sinha August 5, 2019

Our Roots Devour

Lora Gray July 29, 2019

Seeking Same

H.E. Casson July 24, 2019

His Heart is the Haunted House

Aimee Ogden July 22, 2019

Dead Meat

Maria Haskins July 18, 2019

Catch a Star

Avra Margariti June 20, 2019

Ammi’s Broken Vase

Sameem Siddiqui May 22, 2019

Sasha’s Pattern, Sonia’s Edge

Katherine Quevedo May 13, 2019

Juliet Silver and the Sea of Prosperity

Wendy Nikel May 6, 2019

The Hermes VII

Donna J.W. Munro April 29, 2019

eLon-4 Breaks A Mirror

Aurelius Raines II April 22, 2019

The Last

Premee Mohamed April 18, 2019

Strangers in the House

Joshua Grasso March 18, 2019

Paper Dragonfly, Paper Mountain

Christi Nogle February 21, 2019

Who Defies the Watcher

Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga February 4, 2019

Grey Evergreen

Marlena Evans January 28, 2019

Honor Bright

Erin Hendel January 23, 2019

Hearts Made Marble, Weapons Shaped From Bone

A.J. Fitzwater January 21, 2019

In Silence, I’ll Sing

Laura O'Brien January 17, 2019

A Woman’s Voice

Bo Balder December 20, 2018

Twenty Minutes Starting Now

Jaq Evans November 26, 2018

The Provenance of Hunger

Emma Miller November 8, 2018

Roy Reschedules with Death

Karen Heslop November 1, 2018

If You Require Assistance

Chloie Piveral October 29, 2018

Carnelian Rage

Tamzin Mitchell October 24, 2018

Honey Cure

Rob Francis October 22, 2018

Flying With the Dead

Sabrina Vourvoulias October 18, 2018

An Infinite Series of Primes

Laurence Raphael Brothers September 24, 2018

A Son

Rachel Rodman August 20, 2018

Phantasm

Magdi Hazaa August 9, 2018

They Are Still Building It

C.S. Malerich August 2, 2018

Visionary

Rhonda Eikamp July 30, 2018

Tiny Lights

Nicole Lungerhausen July 25, 2018

The Lady of Light

Jason A. Zwiker July 23, 2018

Where Dead Men Go to Dream

A.C. Wise July 19, 2018

Twelve Months

Aaron Emmel June 25, 2018

Sea Shanties

Amelia Fisher May 7, 2018

Long Dry Waste

Laura DeHaan April 30, 2018

Phoenix Fire Fight

L.N. Holmes April 26, 2018

Mirror, Mirror

M.P. Neal April 23, 2018

The Ice Tree

Sarena Ulibarri April 16, 2018

Better than Healed

Michael Harris Cohen March 26, 2018

Prisoner and Parsley

J Strawn February 26, 2018

Waiting for the Dawn

Anna Salonen February 5, 2018

The Jade Woman

Garrett Davis January 29, 2018

Wait Until You See Them

Marie Baca Villa January 26, 2018

A Promise

Jennifer Hudak January 22, 2018

2611

Cat Rambo January 15, 2018

World Cry

Tara Williams January 15, 2018