The reset was scheduled at eleven that morning. Aletta couldn’t make it for one last brunch. Maybe in the next iteration, thought Steve.
Miguel Paolo Reyes is a researcher from the Philippines.
I’m not prepared for this electric heartbreak. I never should’ve let you leave my insides, the whole world a coffin you fit perfectly.
Kate LaDew resides in Graham, NC with her cats, Charlie Chaplin and Janis Joplin.
“I’ve made tea for her,” she says. “She’s such a good girl, never late.”
“I’m here Mum,” I want to say. Instead I say, “I’ll wait with you.”
Liz Cable (@lizcable) likes padlocks probably a bit too much.
“We’d be just two sad, old drunks if we didn’t have each other,” he says.
We clink glasses. The mirror cracks.
Petar Petrov (@ppetrov90) likes short stories that linger long.
She left home, leaving only objects which belonged to a child with pigtails–an empty dollhouse, a teddy bear loved to shapelessness.
Sean Mulroy lives in Newcastle, Australia. His fiction has previously appeared in Every Day Fiction among other venues.