Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Hey, Bob, Aren’t Ya Talkin’?

He turns into the hallway, walks its length, then grabs the gold knob on the storage room door. Locked. He walks back to the men’s restroom. Also locked. He knocks.

by Jeff Blechle • August 14, 2022July 26, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Wartime Generations

The day was beautiful. Perhaps it was a good day to die for the right reasons.

by Jason Arment • August 7, 2022July 26, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Vice & Hurricanes

I knocked at every registered address on the island that ever voted Democrat. And with it, experienced the culture of Galveston like accidentally swallowing the Atlantic ocean instead of a ...

by Robin Doody • July 31, 2022July 26, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: THE FORGERY

Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a painting or TV show. Rather, ...

by Ben Philipps • July 28, 2022July 29, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Teach

Photo by Eric and Mary Ellen. So the teaching associate, we called him “Teach,” but we meant no disrespect by that, it’s just that the name sort of fit because he’s ...

by Larry Smith • July 24, 2022July 7, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Once a Smoker, Always a Smoker

  “I don’t know why you wanted to meet here of all places.” She said it in a voice of perfect exasperation that was all at once disheartening and tenderly familiar ...

by Travis Cohen • July 17, 2022June 30, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, short story

BOOK REVIEW: HERE BE ICEBERGS

Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse.

by Jennifer Brough • July 14, 2022July 6, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Promise

In his mind Harold prepared a speech. If Maggie was going to fire him for stealing food, well, OK, it might’ve happened but he’d never gone overboard, and he supposed ...

by Charles Holdefer • July 10, 2022June 30, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: THE MEMBRANES

In the 22nd century, humanity has scorched the earth. Attempts to undo the catastrophic results of global warming have proved futile, and a new kind of “Noah’s Arc” has been ...

by Eleanor Keisman • July 7, 2022July 18, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Tunneling

Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the diameter of a barrel hoop, ...

by Richard Holeton • July 3, 2022June 30, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Cat Sitting, Editing, and the Light Behind the Curtain

Paul pulled his sedan over to the curb in front of the house. The sedan’s battered engine rattled ominously as Paul shifted into reverse. Paul, used to the auditory threat ...

by Spencer Linford • June 26, 2022June 24, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews, Uncategorised

BOOK REVIEW: SOLO DANCE

In ‘Solo Dance’, by Li Kotomi, Japan – Asia’s most advanced country – is described as a “queer desert.”

by Kevin McGeary • June 23, 2022June 26, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Family Vacation

Photo by Rick Pilot. Be quiet. You’ve been living in a strange house. It’s a sunny afternoon, but Mom’s upstairs with a stomach ache and Dad’s mapping a route. He’s desperate to ...

by Rachel Ephraim • June 19, 2022June 8, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Road to Methuselah Spring

A blizzard swept through New England on the night Gretchen and I arrived, throwing our marriage into question and quickening a slow process of separation which had already been underway ...

by Tim Griffith • June 12, 2022June 8, 2022

Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THREE

Perrin has a beautiful talent for capturing the atmosphere of small-town France

by Andy Charman • June 9, 2022May 27, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Dedicated Dancers of The Greater Oaks Retirement Community

A New Yorker finds solace in an unexpected place in Florida.

by Anna Dempsey • June 5, 2022May 31, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Insomnia

Even after all these years, he couldn’t believe it’d happened while he was asleep. Curled up under the sheets, knees tucked. He never heard the screech of brakes, the impact ...

by VINCENT CZYZ • June 3, 2022June 10, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Seduction

He has begged her not to go home yet. And though she has rejected his suggestion of the dessert wine and shaken her head at his watery wink—an old trick from ...

by Andrea Bianchi • May 29, 2022May 27, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Mardi Gras

FAT TUESDAY I’m six or seven, and we’re standing on Canal Street, my dad, mom and sister, who’s too young to remember any of this.  It’s late February but so hot ...

by Louis Gallo • May 27, 2022May 13, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

The Staten Island Hanger

Photo courtesy the author. We knew about the Staten Island Hanger, everyone did, sitting on its own on a large lot near the New York Harbor, like you could bring something ...

by Gil Kaplan • May 20, 2022May 19, 2022