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Mine
Would a more loving partner have pieced the clues together? Should I have known? It seemed so obvious now.
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#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 ...
#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, 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
Bone China and Velvet
He says he married a girl who is sweet and merry
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Three-Legged
What would’ve happened if we’d never met – only shared a glance and a smile across a packed auditorium, the fresh lacquer smell of the stage mingling with stale cigarette ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Krakatoa Breakfast
Wildwood couldn’t be much farther. After a few minutes a sign informed him that their exit was coming up, then they were at the junction, and he was standing on ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
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, Fiction, Story Sunday
His
You wake up, panting. An ache has settled in the small of your back and the pressure is spreading. You hiss to get breath out of your lungs. The sheets ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
Exchange
After leaving my lover by way of a kind but firm email, I cried for several hours. On receiving his sad but kind reply, I cried some more. Then I ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
Brock Turley Was in Westerns
In the summer of my second year of university, I was working in the kind of dingy, backstreet pub that seemed to consider the fact of being dingy and backstreet ...
#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
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, Story Sunday
ABOUT ANGER
During a fight, an emissary for peace and goodness slices off his lips.
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
JEFF AND JILL
A get-together turns nasty
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Flash Friday
THE TICK
The insidious tick becomes a symbol of poisonous betrayal
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
TULIPS
Do you want kids?
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TWO DOORS
A meditation on pain, memory, and the doors we go in and out of
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THE SUITCASE
A man’s dark secret derails a new relationship
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