A contemporary speculative story where escape arrives in the sleek language of technology—only to become another kind of trap.
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A psychologically rich story that returns to childhood, where devotion and dread grow together—and memory becomes its own terrain.
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A chief neurosurgery resident marks the incision—literally a question mark—then faces an aneurysm rupture mid-operation while his wife goes into labour.
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A wedding reception conversation between two strangers drifts from polite small talk into genuine connection—awkwardness as foreplay, curiosity as momentum.
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They were young. They were certain. Years later, the body remembers what the heart chose not to calculate.
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Chang E runs the moon like an exhausted civil servant while the gods chase trends and the world floods the heavens with crises. A myth retold as satire: funny, sharp, ...
by Patricia J. Esposito
Caddie didn’t steal; she abandoned. In her right fleece pocket, she had the amethyst from the museum of lapidary art. It wasn’t her favorite, but it ...
A missing coworker. A back-room shrine. A manager who won’t explain anything. One morning shift turns into an inventory of what’s been erased and what’s about to be.
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A suburban student reinvents himself online to get the internship he wants — and triggers a quiet chain reaction of borrowed selves.
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A small reminder—simple, repeated—keeps turning the knife. “Don’t Forget Your Ring” is flash fiction about memory, attachment, and what we leave behind when we go.
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A woman removes obsolete roadside call boxes for the state. But inside the metal shells, people have left what they couldn’t say out loud — and one small object turns ...
…you can work and be around people all day and still feel isolated and alone. That’s one of the big motivations for why I started seeing a psychologist about five ...
Dear readers, for those of you weary from the brave expedition that took you to the distant end of my lengthy first post, I have fabulous news: there’s more! Though ...
A communal voice of resistance and remembrance. Black childhood under threat yet radiant in survival. Each stanza builds from mourning toward hope, blending lyric economy with social weight.
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Out past the headland, an old fisherman rows against the pull of the tide and his own life’s weight. In Devil’s Teeth, Gerri Brightwell renders the sea as both adversary ...
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On a Zagreb balcony, a mother and daughter confront secrets, shame, and desire. The View is an intimate tale of what we see — and what remains hidden.
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In “Thieves,” friendship, paranoia, and secrecy collide when Julia’s new lover raises suspicions in the narrator’s mind. Letters stolen, money missing, and loyalty tested — a delicate, psychological story about ...
A poetic noir about desire, danger, and the rituals of power. In “Bank Robber,” a mysterious woman finds herself caught in the smoke and mirrors of intimacy and betrayal. A ...
“I don’t want these. I can’t take them. They just don’t make it.”
In ‘Rubies,’ one woman’s search for the right pair of earrings uncovers more than she expected. A ...
