Sometimes building this time machine seems futile. Why would younger me listen to me when I didn’t listen to that old man when I was young?

Philip Simondet is an improviser, a musician, a podcaster, and a writer and he still doesn’t like himself. 

Do you remember that great day when we walked on the beach, holding hands, talking, smiling? That’s when I saw her for the first time.

Marcin Kozak writes from the woods.  

You exclude more than you include. That’s the way it is with new starts. You live in the ark you built, even if you hear screaming outside.

Chris Bullard is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia, PA. Main Street Rag published his poetry chapbook, Florida Man, this year.

Their fortune fell, so they had only one estate, two servants, and one carriage. They lived happily ever after, without trouble. The end.

Sean Vivier is a web app developer in real life.

They had forgotten to invite the last fairy. So she took her revenge, and she gave the princess the blessing of an interesting story.

Sean Vivier is a web app developer in real life.

This all could have been avoided, thought the angel with the flaming sword, had they been allowed the Fruit of Knowledge in moderation.

Sean Vivier is a web app developer in real life.

American. What an exotic word, laced with legend of antiquity. A fitting name for a school mascot.

Sean Vivier is a web app developer in real life.

For our November spotlight series, we’ll be featuring stories from the esteemed Sean Vivier.

“I love you,” I say, and the customer says, “Thank you,” her voice cracking, and then neither of us knows how to hang up.

R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.

I never miss her. But sometimes I miss the man she thought I was.

R. Gatwood (@iwantanewhead) is the emergent consciousness of a spectacularly inefficient library shelving system.