James L. Sutter | And All Their Silent Roars
“But why?” Charlotte whined. In the front seat, our mother consulted the map. “I’m not going to keep answering that.” Anyone who’d come within shouting distance of our old house the week before could ...
4 Touko 202238min
Shaoni C. White | Where the Heather Grows
Clara drinks from water bottles so she doesn’t have to hear the tap running. She puts all the dirty dishes in the dishwasher and leaves the building until it’s done running, just so she doesn’t have t...
20 Huhti 202222min
Shannon Scott | Synchronous Online
It could have been ketchup. Or sriracha sauce. V8 or cranberry juice or pinot noir. It could have been Karo syrup with food coloring as it had been in Carrie or Bosco Chocolate Syrup as in Psycho. It ...
6 Huhti 202242min
R.L. Meza | The First Year
When you were inside me, I knew you were mine. Now, I’m not so sure. Cradled in my arms, you are an assemblage of parts I recognize: Noah’s cleft chin and narrow ears, my heart-shaped lips and upturne...
16 Maalis 202242min
Erica Ruppert | The Golden Hour
Thomas woke alone, and opened his sticky eyes to the dusty golden light filling the bedroom. He expected to see Benjamin in the other bed, beside him, as if they were still children together. The bed ...
2 Maalis 202228min
Jonathan L. Howard | In the Walls and Beneath the Fridge
It was the unexpectedness of the scream that pulled him to his feet from a sofa slouch before the television, that sent him in a run the short way to the kitchen. Jess’s soft padding steps the same pa...
16 Helmi 202229min
Ray Nayler | The Summer Castle
I have spent my life trying to understand what the thing called memory is. I know some of what it is not. It is not the opposite of forgetting. And it is not a record of what happened. How many summer...
2 Helmi 202239min
Kiyomi Appleton Gaines | The Elements of Her Self
She remembered the scent of rain and bamboo. The squish of her shoes in the soft loam as she followed her father through the forest. He with his axe over one shoulder, and she carrying a lunch her mot...
19 Tammi 202221min
