Stories

I hid in the museum, slept beneath mammoth bones. The cop called my mom. Nothing.

Christopher Mohar is severely interested in meat, as a concept.

Never underestimate a woman scorned. Her ability to recall details is dead-on balls accurate and she knows where the bodies are buried.

Kathleen A. Ryan (@katcop13) is a retired police officer who blogs at Women of Mystery.

“You’re a sociopath,” he said. She tried to keep a straight face, but a rogue giggle escaped. “It’s funny,” she said, “because it’s true.”

JJ Sheffer (@bustedjj) is a perfect angel who lives and writes in York, PA.

My mother cried when the bottom fell out of our bathtub, saying a bathtub without a bottom’s like a house without a family – empty, dry.

Gavin McCall spent most of his life either studying or teaching writing in Hawaii, but he’ll soon move to California to do both.

The end, finally. Finally. He dropped his pack, spat a mouthful of blood on the sand, and hoped to hell this time he wouldn’t be saved.

Manya Lisse did NOT need another source of procrastination.

Some condemned her for seeming unfeeling, but she refused to wallow in victimhood. That would be like letting him do it over and over again.

Merton Sussex is a Minneapolis-based copywriter, and a writer/editor at DiaryOfFools.com. He loves his wife, and his dogs.

When the storm hit the ships broke like old bones and the men slipped into the water. On shore, Mark’s mother covered his eyes too late.

Dom Turner takes pictures and creates websites by day, but he secretly wants to be a superhero (or a writer).

They tore the book down the middle. He kept the ending to rewrite it. She made paper boats of her pages and set them on Monty’s pond, happy.

Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is a city hermit. He’s thinking of making clay miniatures for a recently repotted bonsai.

Merlot ricocheted off his face. She had always wanted to do that. Only now, though, did she realize she’d never wanted the right excuse.

CK Wagner is not quitting her day job just yet.

She pulls me into the stall. I do a line off of the toilet paper dispenser. She opens her shirt, and I expect this to change everything.

Acia Thomas (@hiacia) lives in Chicago.