Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Other Reality
A contemporary speculative story where escape arrives in the sleek language of technology—only to become another kind of trap.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
The Swamp
A psychologically rich story that returns to childhood, where devotion and dread grow together—and memory becomes its own terrain.
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, but it ...
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, 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 into her ...
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.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
Illinois
A basement party, cheap beer, and a night that turns irreversible — a sharp, propulsive story of adolescence and consequence.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Tuesday Tales
ANTI Gravity calls
A ghostly neighbor delivers an unsolicited critique — not vandalism, but editorial precision — in a flash essay about art, judgment, and being seen.