Category: short fiction
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Scum Palace / Kokum Mukul
The ceiling had been leaking since way before the curfew began. No, though some claim so, it wasn’t the curfew that caused the leak. It only exposed the cracks that hid ingeniously in-between the going-out and coming-in of our everyday routine. Now that we remain indoors all the time, all the tenants are ceaselessly fighting…
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Storyline Predator / Ian C Smith
That winter in this cold rusted iron and weathered brick coastal area we scrounged firewood from wrack to heat our rental above the bike repair shop. Liking the traffic’s background noise, I embraced our stringent circumstances, the way this accentuated moods of hope and longing. You don’t need an expensive hot air balloon trip to…
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Starlight / Jonathan Jay
“Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be…” You’ve heard the song before and you’ll hear it again, this time reverberating from staticky speakers stacked atop a makeshift stage in a small nameless bar, one of many lining the streets of San Blas. Why are you here? You came here…
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An Egg Keeper / Eva Liukineviciute
It is just the one sheep who will not fall in line. And you know we have tried everything. The carrot and stick, the shears and the dye. But nothing works, I tell you. Nothing will entice him to come in when the other sheep do and it is embarrassing – I am truly ashamed.…
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Paper Birch / Michael L Sevy
looking out from my bedroom at the lone white birch in the front field, I notice a few suckers coming up, sprouting impetuously from the rootstock that I’ll need to cut back, the paper birch, paper because of the nature of its bark, thin, flexibrittled and layered loosely against the trunk, is bent over, this…
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