by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Tim Leeming The last few words of the Monkee’s “Daydream Believer” floated through the dark room as Jeremy Kendall blinked back the drug induced sleepiness from his eyes to see the dimly lighted red numbers on the digital clock indicate 5:30 a.m. The drugs were...
by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Emily Knott You used to take black and white photographs of strangers. You hung the prints in your room like an amateur Diane Arbus, and the first time I saw the walls, layered with unsmiling people, I thought you must be depressed. But then you told me about them,...
by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Dylan Magruder Hank and I snuck away from his house with two six packs of beer from the convenience store down the street and glasses we took from my cabinets. We had a tradition of going out into the fields next to his house, lying in the grass so that we could...
by Fiction Contest | Fiction
by Sonya Once upon a time in a mystical land called Waikato there lived a wee boy with bright red hair called Padraig. Padraig lived high upon a hill in a beautiful purple castle with his mother and father and older brother Ciaran. The boys loved to play in the...
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by Lois Carlisle Up until a girl named Sarah, who was sitting in a chair outside of the front office, started bleeding from her nose, I had been having a pretty okay day. I rushed over to her, tissues in hand. The blood pooled on her upper lip. Before I could wipe it...
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by Ali Sharah Son, why don’t you get yourself a wife? Ali’s father questioned him scornfully while filling tobacco in his ‘Hukka’(pipe). See Master Sadiq, our neighbors’ son, he is only twenty three and what a caring wife he has got for himself. I heard that she is a...
