You live in a world of story telling. Everything you consume has setting, hero, theme, and purpose that tell you more with implicit meaning. The art of the short story is immersive, concise, and vivid. In such a small amount of space, there’s much to say. The story has it’s own tale to tell and decides for you. When you sit down to take your mind elsewhere, the decides for you, telling you what you to hear. Showing you what you need to see. A short story is a place you visit, for a brief period of time and during that time, are completely enveloped in believable fiction.
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Raritan by Ronald Micci
Summer swept down from the hills in a sudden burst of rain, bathing the dry leaves in a hot, dreamy soup, wending its way toward…
Scrap Irony by Robert Wexelblatt
It’s been eight years since the state legislature joined twenty-five others by passing a permitless concealed carry law. The bill’s sponsors along with the governor…
Christmas Night by Eldora Betsy Lyngdoh
As I stepped out of the car and onto the familiar soil of my hometown, a wave of nostalgia washed over me. The crisp winter…
Kintsugi by Gilles de Luca
It looked a lot like him, the shaggy-haired and tall figure outside of the glass walls, lighting a cigarette, then putting one hand in his…
Soften by Spring by Brittany Eriksen
It was another perfect Sunday and Ana Cabrón barely had time to notice the pink cherry blossoms outside her bay window. The air outside carried…
Matches by Hilary Short
I scan the kitchen island. Cake, knife, paper plates, forks. What else am I missing? Candles! Where are the candles? I rummage through the…
As the Crow Flies by Jaila Jackson
As the crow flies. How odd. As if we fly in straight lines. The wind does not carryour wings in only one direction. Stupid humans.…
Margot Morgana by J.S. Apsley
I peered in the fortune teller’s window, not knowing or expecting what may lie inside. Aside from lilac, sun-faded curtains and a garish tree made…
Fry’ Em by Colleen Halupa
This fictional story is based on the life of Dwight Frye, the Hollywood actor who played Renfield in the 1931 original Dracula movie with Bela…
The Vampire Marjorie by Lee Cheeseman
The problem with Brown, the thing that got me into this situation in the first place, is that everyone there sucks. Brown was the…
The Magic of Butterflies by Jim Bates
In the instant before Annie passed away, her Fairy God Mother came to her and held her hand. In the instant after she breathed her…
Letter for Mia by Louisa Prince
Six months had passed since Denise had called Mia, her only surviving child. She smirked, the image of a small redhead with unruly curls,…
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Don’t worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that’s creativity.
Peter Max