Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Dead and Gone

Back inside the tavern, the dining room had grown dark and empty except for a handful of guests at the far end of the bar where a muted green light ...

by Kelly Piner • October 2, 2022September 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, short story, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Urgent

“There aren’t any seats left and standing people have already taken up a lot of the wall space. I stand in front of a table pushed against the corner.”

by Lauren Baker • September 25, 2022September 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Notes of Improvement on Parisian Trains

“Empty, she wrote, even though it wasn’t an improvement, because sometimes she just wrote what she saw.”

by Graham Marema • September 18, 2022September 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Mother Goes to Italy

She ran from this loneliness all the way to Italy, hoping it wouldn’t find her there.

by Isabella Barrengos • September 11, 2022August 12, 2022

Editor's Pick, Story Sunday, StorySunday

RCKT MAN

In 15 minutes a dead man would walk through the door and have a seat at the booth.

by Luke Sweeney • September 4, 2022August 1, 2022

Editor's Pick, Story Sunday, StorySunday

The Revenge Consultant

It’s my job to try to figure out what would feel like justice to her and the victim’s loved ones.

by Audacia Ray • August 28, 2022August 3, 2022

Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday

Real Time

Sometimes what I thought was the end was only a pause.

by Mary Rechner • August 21, 2022July 27, 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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, Experimental Writing Issue, Story Sunday

Capital

—Have you been getting enough exercise? I know I always feel my best after playing 18 holes. Haha. I’ll tell you what I laughed about because even though your back ...

by Jeff Wesselschmidt • May 15, 2022May 11, 2022