Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday, Uncategorised
The Question Mark
A chief neurosurgery resident marks the incision—literally a question mark—then faces an aneurysm rupture mid-operation while his wife goes into labour.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, StorySunday
Wedding
A wedding reception conversation between two strangers drifts from polite small talk into genuine connection—awkwardness as foreplay, curiosity as momentum.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash, Uncategorised
Take a Minute
After twenty years of failed deals and near misses, a senior accountant confronts the arithmetic of ambition — and the cost of never quite closing.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
MORNING IN LOVE
They were young. They were certain. Years later, the body remembers what the heart chose not to calculate.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Secret
“He ate all the food, and I gained all the weight.”
Editor's Pick, Fiction, short story, Story Sunday, StorySunday
What Constitutes a Good Day These Days
A day at the playground turns—small social misfires, a lost child, then a spiral at home—as a son tries to keep his daughter safe while his father’s world breaks apart.
Moon Goddess
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, ...
A Gift Across the Bus Seat
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, ...
How They Get You
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Guns, Ink and Smiles
One tattoo. One smile. A whole chain of assumptions—and the biology underneath them.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday
I’M NOT HERE
A breakup, pills, and a bar booth: Griffin’s body starts disappearing as he tries to reach the person he can’t let go of.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Capsule Biography Number 41 – Astrid Vasquez
A Guatemalan scholar becomes the accidental spark behind a fringe theory that claims three centuries of history never happened.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
How to Get the Picture
A simple photo request becomes a confrontation with everything unsaid.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Spooky Action at Home
A letter of support. A controversial paper. And a sense that bravery can become coercion.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Sidestroke in Graceland
Elvis is at the bottom of the pool. There’s still time to save him, but not much.
The lifeguard is a teenage girl who has gnawed ferocious teeth marks ...
A Gulf War
Childhood games become a rehearsal for the real thing and memory does the rest.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
The Diving Board
Summer has its own calendar and one ritual that turns into a warning.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
Don’t Forget Your Ring
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash
LAST LINE — Bethany Bruno
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 ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Pearl Hunter
A pearl diver dreams the sea from a clinic bed — a surreal flash where the body, memory, and darkness converge.