Darker children flee their homes to discover worlds far crueler.
Delvon T. Mattingly, who also goes by D.T. Mattingly, is a fiction writer and poet from Louisville, Kentucky and a PhD student in epidemiology at the University of Michigan. He …
Gerry stands in front of the hallway mirror, struggling with his tie. Catches him every time. The knot is too big or too tight or the shirt button shows. It will never be right.
‘Hopeless,’ Emma said.
It will have …
I crawl. I run. I fall. I stand. I win.
Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry, has been internationally published, and won poetry awards from numerous publications. She is the author of 9 poetry …
When we first met, we never thought we’d have an expiration date—like milk—curdled and left in the sun. The sour stench of the past still lingers in every latte. In every breath of November.
How thick they poured the milk …
A man’s voice rises through the floorboards, muffled and unintelligible, but the little girl knows his message quite well. “Splosions,” she says somberly, mimicking the anchor’s delivery, as she pushes Mommy across the plastic floor and toward the pot boiling …
With a zombie squire, Sir Percival never removed his helmet.
John H. Dromey writes in a variety of genres. Examples of his somewhat longer literary works can be found online at Tim Sevenhuysen’s 50-Word Stories website, where over fifty of John’s stories …
To this day my brother Will still shakes his head and says that he can’t believe my friend Davey and I threw him off a cliff. “My god, Ronnie, what the hell were you thinking?” Or something to that effect …
My feet dug into the powdered sand where the sloping path ended and the dunes began. I could feel it sifting up between my toes. I stepped between patches of coarse sprouting grass, then down onto the firm, clean sand …