He’d never had sushi before, wasn’t planning on ever having it again. She also chewed with her mouth open. And Mother would never approve.
L.A. Stein is almost as short as her fiction yet is no stranger to tall tales.
Angry silence. I hit the radio. “Crops fail as bees continue to decline.” A thunk on the windshield. “There goes another one.” We laugh.
Elayna Finley is a new mom and lives closer to the Rocky Mountains than the ocean that she loves.
Joe’s service was just for family, Dean was told on the church steps.
Sylvia Hiven doesn’t like padding.
Pretty soon the whole room was nodding and, from then on, no one looked her in the eye.
Martha Williams hugs her figments here.
See Apollo asleep in a field, his horses dispersed, his chariot toppled, and in his hand, an empty can of Bud. See Blind Homer, apologist.
Kyle Callahan earned his MFA from Goddard College. He writes and teaches in Vermont.
The man shook the last drop from the very last can of gas. “Well, that’s it,” he said. A dense and luxurious silence curled around them all.
Derek Dexheimer lives in Seattle. He is working on a novel.
“With this device I shall change history! The accursed name of Adolf Hitler will be erased from the annals of European painting!”
James Hutchings mostly writes fantasy.
It had started small, but now he was hooked and never played with his friends anymore. Just kept wasting all of his time in the real world.
Mike Donoghue mostly lives in his head, but resides in Vancouver.
When memories start to slip away, dry leaves caught on an autumn breeze and snatched from the lawn, will you want me to remind you who I am?
Milo James Fowler teaches junior high English and writes in the dark. Visit him anytime, day or night.