FICTION

Something to Sink Your Teeth Into by Katie Kalahan

His body was strung upside down so that his head was five feet from the floor.…
Xibalba by Stephen Ground

The sun dove as I reached the main square—sunstroked, boozy tourists mingling with buskers and vendors…
Stealing from Windowsills by Judy Darley

Four years have passed since the woman I knew as Mother enclosed me in my tower.…
Hardened Road by Deborah Trowbridge

Aisha and Ahmed’s fingers are interlaced and black with dirt. They trudge a pock-marked Syrian road,…
Three pieces by Samina Najmi

Brew for Brynn and Nikiko Noun: A mixture of several things – Cambridge Dictionary Verb: To…
Two flash pieces by Toti O’Brien

Writer So, when you sat there at four in the morning, having quietly slipped out of…
Two flash pieces by Maureen Sherbondy

Belly Buttons Lydia is afraid of belly buttons, especially insies. The valley once attached to another…
Pieces of Winston by Debra Stewart

Winston was trying to cross the road at a busy six lane highway in the big…
First Contact, 25 A.D. Where Are My Eagles?! by Al Simmons

Cap had the orders in his hand. “Don’t eat the Romans. That’s what it says.” “Don’t…
PREPARING FOR WAR by Kirby Michael Wright

The rise of Papohaku Beach fills with builders. Worms of shaved wood curl off stone chisels.…