Fictional

May 2
2 min

[Fiction] Long Story Short

By Megan Jauregui Eccles Alexandra did not mean to fall through the rabbit hole or win the prince’s hand or impale the queen on her dance...

Mar 28
6 min

[Fiction] Melú

by Alexis Levitin James had been gazing, with his usual sense of wonder and exhilaration, at the endless unfurling of the surf, when he...

Feb 14
3 min

[Fiction] Tide Rising

by JMH Flood Tide Rising It wasn’t unusual for the tide to come in and leave pools of water all over the yard. In fact, that happened...

Dec 15, 2022
19 min

[Fiction] Modern Corrections

by Rodney E. Schmidt It was midnight. Gloria stood on the balcony ledge, yelling at the culprit who hid in the darkness. She begged him...

Dec 15, 2022
10 min

[Fiction] The Roses & the Weeds

By Elinora Westfall Ollie talks. Not that Bridget listens. She’s too absorbed in the mundane task of fastening her bra, a simple action...

Dec 15, 2022
8 min

[Fiction] Floodplain and High-Hazard Zone Regulations

By Isabel Yacura They found the body in the creek when the tide went out. They called it a creek on the island, anyway—it was more like a...

Dec 15, 2022
16 min

[Fiction] Tastes of Freedom

By Andréa Ferrell Gannon Claire didn’t want Milo tagging along; he was too old, too quiet, his face too sun damaged, his lips too fleshy....

Dec 15, 2022
12 min

[Fiction] Jellyfish Summer

by Veronica Good You open the first day of summer like a book. The first contact with the crashing waves outside your beach house makes...

Nov 29, 2022
5 min

[Fiction] Situation on National Highway 52

By Ziaul Moid Khan The tires of my polar white Renault Duster screeched before coming to an abrupt halt on National Highway 52. I had...

Oct 18, 2022
4 min

[Fiction] The Age of Knowing

by Lukas Tallent The first time they did it as husband and wife was at night in the shower of her cousin’s condo in Panama City Beach....

Aug 30, 2022
12 min

[Fiction] Saving Face

By Kathryn E. McGee I don’t recognize him at first, not until he says my name. “Peach?” My boyfriend, Kyle, is seated and waiting in the...

Jul 1, 2022
19 min

[Fiction] Broken Cowboys

by Emmet Browne We drive through West Texas, where the sky is almost red and where the sun sets faster than a bull with its ass ablaze....

Jul 1, 2022
19 min

[Fiction] Curio Bay

by John Yunker I held up my arm in front of a woman coming toward me like an early morning mall walker, in Nikes, purple leggings, a pink...

Jul 1, 2022
17 min

[Fiction] Inlander

by Oliver Brennan Donna sits as upright as she can, helped by the hospital bed’s automatic lift. She stares at the television above the...

Jul 1, 2022
6 min

[Fiction] Keziah and the Whale

by Krista Beucler “Daddy is taking us to Hawaii,” Mom tells Keziah. She uses the bright voice she saves for talking to children, but...

Jul 1, 2022
17 min

[Fiction] Rock Bottom

by Laurie Rockenbeck Bob’s daydreams alternated between finding Suzi dead in their bed, choked on her own vomit, and coming home to her...

Jun 14, 2022
9 min

[Fiction] How to Make Light Come

by Juniper Soledad is making out with my dead body on a bed of sand. Paper seagulls dangle from the ceiling. A video camera is set-up on...

May 3, 2022
7 min

[Fiction] Laguna

by Matthew Johnson Breath in. Breath out. The blue mask covering Cassie’s mouth and nose rose and swelled like foam, trapping in her...

Mar 22, 2022
2 min

[Fiction] Seafoam

by Megan Jauregui Eccles When I sold my hair to save my sister, I thought she’d understand. A mermaid’s magic is in her hair. It was all...

Dec 14, 2021
11 min

[Fiction] U-Haul

by Ioannis Argiris “Damn. Jimmy’s got to keep this shit on the low,” Jules says. The U-Haul truck’s suspension seems lower than what he...