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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
SOS
No, I didn’t know Trevor all that well, but, you know, I saw him around.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Seagulls
He’d said I was part-seagull, and he was too.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Traitor
To me it’s like he’s holding open a door behind which lies a shiny new future, a bright new beginning, and all we have to do is walk through and ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Sorrow
“The shape of her grew smaller and smaller until she was only a speck at the edge of the road.”
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Diamond Studs
“I always wanted to build a house beside the lake with her. It would’ve been a place where we could grow old and fat together and be buried in the ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – Parenthetical
we (and by we I mean Claire (the woman I swore (vow (we still vow, we still pledge ourselves, like honourable (‘honour you’, that’s a wedding vow (there’s that word ...
Digital Subscription, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental
Litro #182: Experimental – Lumen Odyssey
Digital Subscription, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Litro #182: Experimental, Print Issues
Litro #182: Experimental – A Rogue Cure
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Come for Me
We swung in the wooden swing, creaking back and forth, or rocked in paint-pealing chairs while she and my parents talked of weather, war, politics, or relatives.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
Big Boxes and Bigger Rooms
Do you think that time makes it harder to feel, or harder to pretend you’re not?
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Buoyancy
“And these things that happen to us. They don’t just live in the past. They echo.”
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Melusine experiment: lab notes [fragment]
Puddle onto concrete and thrashing, weaker-weaker before subsiding to limp stillness.
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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
The Wife
I liked Ben enough. I didn’t love him; I could never love someone so whole.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Bus Driver
He drives a bus, he lives above a shop, he drinks cheap wine, and he is now alone.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Prepare to be Amazed
His mother hovers over a pirate ship cake. The father loiters by the tea urn.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
The Bad Between Us
Our evenings are filled with hospital dramas and 10:00pm bedtimes and getting irritated when one of us reads with the light on, the lamp glowing yellow in the room like ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Necessary Measures
Only after the tanks had rolled into the capital, and the intractable president had been hanged, did the officers of the occupying force relax enough to enjoy the spring sun ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
La Petit Brazier
The ride felt smooth, almost as if Montana barreled by while we stood still.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Window, Amsterdam
He knows he is searching for something that is no longer there.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Burgundy Dust
“All who witnessed her performance felt like they had become part of a strange and romantic movie.”
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