by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by J. Chris Lawrence and Agnostic Zetetic Shuffling through an old shoe box, my hands seize on the smooth surface of a postcard. A chill brushes over me as I gingerly caress the laminated surface. Staring into it, memories stir the hairs on my arms like a ghost breeze...
by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Alex E. Mosier “Everyone has their story. What is it that made them who they are. What situations, circumstances, this that and the next thing as well as their reaction that shaped them into who they are. I don’t argue for a second that these make you who you...
by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Angela Pilson “How was your first week?” Cali counted the seventy-sixth ruby square on Dr. Harvey’s shag carpet. For a doctor, he had odd taste. She raised her brows at him, thicker and uneven since they won’t give her tweezers. Her lungs sighed and she cleared her...
by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Elaine Kehoe You first noticed it in that restaurant in Salt Lake City. Sitting at the bar, waiting for a table, you heard the sound of a glass crashing behind you. You started, looked at him and he at you. “Someone’s in trouble,” he said. You nodded but didn’t...
by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Courtney Patkau The truck has become a safe place, a calm place where silence doesn’t seem so loud, where tangible emotions are weaved into the fabric of the seats—boyfriends, music, the stale cigarettes lingering from previous owners and occupants who didn’t think...
by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Janet Richards Larry smiled with darting eyes, his jaundiced teeth glaring against the swarthy tones of his face. The heightened intensity of his movements signaled to everyone in the office that it was time for a smoke. Forty- five minutes had passed since his...
