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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
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, Tuesday Tales
Night Bus People
Someone has already been sick, somewhere. I can smell it. It’s not on me, the smell. How long do I have left? He won’t stop at every stop – he’ll ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Junk Chamber
Mostly we take, but sometimes, Buckman, we have to give.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Undertow
I gotta say, the days out here are gettin’ tougher and tougher.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Entropy
And this was the idea of entropy. That disorder is more probable than order and that disorder is always increasing.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Real Love
My ex-fiancé, Sherrie, was the kind of woman you might call “intense.” She slammed her palms on the table or whatever surface was available when she was mad for any ...
Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Tuesday Tales
The Bridge of Long Mouth
Sammy was assigned to guard the Bridge of Long Mouth. His superiors hoped that perhaps the bridge’s name would encourage Sammy to speak up. Sammy was a good kid, they ...
Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
A Present Moment Always Vanishing
Image provided by the author.
Afternoon all,
In response to the growing concerns about a rumour that Glumfan is still technically at war with Germany, I have it on good authority that ...
Editor's Pick, Experimental Writing Issue, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Floating Mind
Pain throbs in every direction. I am encased in agony, trapped in a shell of bandaged layers. Please don’t jump off a bridge. It’s not as efficient and liberating as ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The World of Zornes
Photo by April Spreeman.
When Andi picks up fares, she stays away from the university. When Andi talks to her passengers she never talks about art. She doesn’t talk about her ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Grocer
When we set up the equality, inclusion and diversity programme, internally known as EID, pronounced /eɪd/, we thought a guy like Ted – let’s call him Ted – was perfect. ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Alexa, How Far to Destin?
Green is the color of the icing on my brother, Jeffy’s chocolate cake. It’s also the color of his entire face now after he let it drop into the middle ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
This could be true
Gahanna, OH. Photo by Paul Sableman.
“Every true story ends in death.”
Part I
This is not a true story, but some parts really ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Burnwater
for Daniel Hawker, a smith.
The smithy at Lea was a squat building made of stones piled on top of one another without much apparent care. Inside I saw a jumble ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Lady at Number 5
Photo by Sarchi.
She was a rather peculiar woman, who lived alone. Life lingered in her slipper shuffles across carpeted rooms. Her home was plumped silent, the solitary loomed. Her purple ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
This Hugging
It’s not stopping, this hugging. I saw it again tonight passing the kitchen, his noodle arms gliding from that batik robe as he stooped into her warm and willing hold. ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Vampires in the Silvergrass
My mother’s rule was to never stand in the bottom third of our garden. Vampires were there. To brush past the miscanthus, the pennisetum, would be to conjure damnation, and ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
A Gamble If You Don’t
When the answer to whether or not you want to have kids is ‘maybe.’
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Brittles
The brittles are the best things since bitcoin and Netflix.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Technology, Tuesday Tales
The Questionnaires
All or nothing.
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