Flash Fiction
by Stefan Sofiski
You wake up. Stomach rumbling. Why didn’t they give you slop last night? You go out. Frost. Your trotters break the thin ice and sink into the soft ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Wera Lou Gmeiner
When they meet first, they share a dash, being red-haired or twenty-one. Next to them, a cement mixer, grazing like a cow. And when he sees her, he ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Christian Lesmes
“What does this Eel eat?” I asked, watching it swim around a white bucket. “Bananas,” said the owner of the processing plant. The long, shiny body ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Nazia Kamali
The playground, with its decrypt walls and dry, yellow grass, seems smaller than it did when I was younger. The slanting rays of the late afternoon ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Vincent Ternida
2018 It’s been a long time since I actually stayed in Maynila for more than a layover. Some places try too hard to become something that they’re not. ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Diana Kussainova
Ever since she was a kid, Saule Sagaidat liked to be first. The first to run up to an apple tree in the park. The first in class, with the highest ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Lars Love Philipson
In loving memory of my father, Henrik Philipson (1953-2025). “We can’t keep it in the house,” the father said. “He’s gone. Let go!” But the mother ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Mariana Serapicos
I watched it as it gasped for air, flopping around in the very last seconds of its life. As a kid, I desperately wanted a pet. I’d wanted a dog or a ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Caroline Siebbeles
My friendship with Eileen became really serious the day her mother took her up to our apartment to stay with us on a more or less permanent basis. ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Shrutidhora P Mohor
I set him weekly tasks, tasks that he must finish to my satisfaction. Sometimes that means noting the details of date and time of faded pictures. At ...read the full piece >>Supported by:
