New school. New faces. Former Miss Popularity eats lunch alone.
Lisa Marie Lopez loves coffee, quiet walks and animals. She’s been published in many different literary journals, including Blink-Ink and right here in Potato Soup Journal. …
It was a fitting name, Rolling Vistas, situated on the edge of a picturesque town near the sprawling Shawnee National Forest. Set on the crest of a hillside, surrounded by verdant timberland and a meandering brook, it bespoke serenity. And …
I hate the gym. Eternal youth is too much work!
Mary Hickey’s literary fiction has appeared in The Griffin, Happy, Kalliope, Dark Starr, and other publications. She talks a good game about eating healthy, but sneaks out to the DD …
I hear an unexpected noise. It wakes me. It is a muffled shuffling in the night. I lay on my side and listen. Sounds like a gnashing of teeth, a familiar, almost comfortable sound, as if from my subconscious – …
The door was locked. Irene prepared to knock, but then, from behind the door, she heard waves crash, whistles whistle, and fireworks explode. She rolled her eyes. Her husband must have just laid a seven-letter word in Scrabble, (against a …
Dainty new sorrow, do you want a home in me?
Madhurima is an academic-in-making, based in Oxford. She is writing her doctoral thesis on postcolonial war writings.…
Accompanied by his aged and limping border collie, Greg makes his way slowly along sun-lit pavements, now quickly drying after a brief autumn shower. The dog stops, and languidly wagging his tail, looks up at his master of many years.…
After seven days of intolerable confinement, Izzy decided that this foggy afternoon was the right time to free herself. And, if she could manage, Clara.
She had been testing her crippled body since the morning darkness, inundating her extremities with …
8:30 am train station. Frenzied mice slipping and squeezing through.
Madhurima is an academic-in-making, based in Oxford. She is writing her doctoral thesis on postcolonial war writings.…
Myriad starlings swarm fitfully, spatter my Fit fully. Downpour, please!
Sante Matteo is a retired professor who drives a Honda Fit and gazes admiringly and apprehensively at flocks of starlings swarming outside his studio window.…