Fiction

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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, 2022June 29, 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

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Florida, 1993

They flew into Miami at night and decided to go straight to the hotel. They were both hungry but too tired to look for a place to eat. They had ...

by Leah Browning • May 13, 2022May 11, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Gather the Tribe

Photo courtesy the author. “If we want to study history, why don’t we just study chimpanzees? They are our history. When a pack of chimps kills another ape, they go mad ...

by Benjamin Wolfe • May 8, 2022May 6, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, FridayFlash

Slow Train in Winter

Blondirikard Fröberg. The trees are shades; hovering ghosts. I’m going to see my mother in her village. The compartment is warm; my wife is asleep. I can almost go to sleep ...

by Robin Wyatt Dunn • April 29, 2022April 28, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

Singularity

The fate of a beloved snail, who might be the last of their kind.

by Mandy-Suzanne Wong • April 24, 2022April 9, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

The Ice Man

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by Jane Ainslie • April 17, 2022April 19, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday

This Way

In the sunlight of the boat he is a sepia photograph, a ghost from another century with vanished eyebrows and blue eyes like clean cuts that blink just once when ...

by Bethan Cooke • April 10, 2022April 11, 2022