Fiction
March Contributors
Traci Adams, Seriah Black, Camryn Brennan, Christie Chapman, Garima Chhikara, Blake Christian, JD Clapp, Cooper Clarence, Andrea Damic, Jonas David, Jessica Edmond, Miles Efron, Christina Ellison, Rahel Gamma, Mario Georgiou, Michael Hagen, Nevin Haque, Foxx Hart, Isabelle Hughes, Kathryn Kulpa, Oliver Land, Aster May, Helaina Pisar Mckibbin, Mitchell Miller, Pete Mitchell, Saee Motling, Kelly Murashige, Peter Naughton, Karl Nykwest, Michael E. O'Reilly, Alex Pugsley, Neil Randall, Michael Ranfone, Alexei Raymond, Frank Reardon, Frank Reardon, Sullivan Rex, AP Ritchey, Dane Rook, Adele Schultz, Peter Sipe, Kahlo Smith, Elizabeth Sundstrom, Elridge Thomas III, Brendan Todt, Tanuja Viswanath, McKenna Wilds, and Keiran Wyatt
March Highlights
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once i was medusa
Flash Fiction by Garima Chhikara
“They knew my name, but they chose Medusa, the goddess, the untouchable, the stone-eyed killer from their favorite game. I hought they meant it as mockery. But they shouted it in exaltation, like a banner lifted high.”
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the girl who ate her dreams
Flash Fiction by Michael Hagen
“Mother says: eat your dreams while they are fresh, or they’ll fester and rot. But he hasn’t. His skin, soft beneath my tongue. I have eaten all my dreams, a good girl—until him.”
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table for one
Fiction by JD Clapp
“I turned 55 today, double knuckles, racing headlong into they call the Golden Years. Shit, with the ways things are going, fool’s gold maybe. Happy fucking birthday to me.”
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dread of red
Fiction by Sullivan Rex
“I duck down to the floor and lift the tablecloth to see a huge pool of blood surrounding a severed arm. What the fuck is this?! I grab the fork and sit up straight. ‘Everything okay, honey?’ the woman asks. ‘Do you want some more casserole?’”
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a tribute to henry in apartment 8f
Micro-fiction by AP Ritchey
“The elevator took the long way down—it always did—and in that rattling, humming descent I caught myself thinking about Henry…”
in the back of the head
by Cristiano Cardone
“…I could visualize the mathematical expressions from days ago. They swirled, converging from the edges toward a central point, vibrating concentrically….they looked twisted. Demonic. Like ancient seals from forbidden pacts—symbols that no longer belonged to me.”
danny orr
by Rob Bailey
“He opens the drawer and removes his gun, a .38 Special. The barrel's as short as his fuse. He spins the cylinder…Then he closes the drawer—see, I did listen—and his roster of bobbleheads nods in agreement.”
erica’s mirage
by E.S.P.
“I spot my doppelganger at the office luncheon.”
an odd thing
by Chuck Strange
“On his way home Terry threw the snowman out the window and watched it burst on the concrete in the side mirror.”
rattle
by Alex Dako
“The sidewalks sparkled like diamonds in the sultry heat of summer.”
the echoes
by Gilberte Farah
“Anxiety rose within Valentina like a sandstorm. Un-peopling a room exposed echoes. Echoes were wandering spirits, summoning souls to a land of limbo.. “
daytona
by Henrick Karoliszyn
“Far behind me and always close, I could feel the shape of the thing Danny wanted for us. It wasn’t a finish line or a list. It was a way to keep going.”
humbert, by dolores
by Vic Brooks
“The only thing she imagined she was good at was being nubile in the eyes of men at least twice her age. She was passable, too, at heart-shaped glasses and bubble-gum pops.”
tug
by Kevin B
‘The doctor was agitated listening to all this. He wasn’t a therapist. His job was to take people who had turned into something and turn them back.”
arun.local.botanist-turned-biologist.
by Shrutidhora P Mohor
“Arun knows plants inside out. The stem. The skin. The crust of fruits. The pulp…Full lifecycle, he says proudly..”
home
by Esme Chen
“The memory of his childhood blurred when he left the continent at thirteen, including the years he spent with his father and mother. It was a peaceful remembrance, though.”
a path through the dandelions
Fiction by Hank Kirton
“Lying in a puddle of purple vomit, Lottie von Scrodd interviews herself as if she is a guest on a highbrow PBS talk show.”
essential workers
Fiction by John Byutorie
“We walked past the empty beauty products …the only products still on shelves being the newly marketed NeauSkin that rolled out a few months ago alongside a robust marketing scheme complete with cardboard cutout of Reese Witherspoon in deadface…”
it was a hard light, but it’s alright now
by J. L. Tyrrell
“This morning the light came through the blinds the same as it did then. Hard, white, pitiless.”
the source and eternity
by Thomas M. McDade
“I was so happy with the sad way I rigged their lives that I called my thoughts a short story.”
the girl who faded away
by Katherine Liljestrand
“When the curtain closes for the last time, instead of the eleven dancers there should be on stage, Camille can only count ten.”
tangerine strands
by Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
“Lucretia stood in the outer schoolyard, looking through the fence that separated her from the scene of the crime she had created two months prior.”
have you ever seen a cat in a cape?
by Joseph Quilindrino Niduaza
“As if in slow motion, Heath spotted the incoming feline, and feeling the need to preserve his integrity, and keep his suit clean from cat hair, he evaded the air assault, but with his ungraceful maneuver…”
a love story
by Hil Schmidt
“You always look so peaceful when you sleep.”
revised punishment
by Derek Wautlet
“He took one step out over the railing. Then a quick drop, and then nothing.”