Fiction
This is Thin Air Online’s Archive of pieces that are classified as fiction. Here is our showcase of your whimsy and imagination.
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DOWN AT THE CROSS WHERE MY SAVIOR DIED by John Dufresne
When my uncle Walter Ryan gave up drink—this was after the school department fired him for stealing linoleum tiles on top of everything else, and after his wife, Aunt Reba, ran off with my other uncle, Raymond Paradise–he planted all his whiskey bottles, Uncle Walter did, in the backyard, necks up, and pressed rubber dolls’…
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Old Faithful by John Brantingham
Arnold turns around after Old Faithful erupts for the cheer behind him. There’s a man down on one knee proposing to a woman in front of a small crowd who are taking pictures. Arnold thinks that maybe he’s in the picture with the geyser and couple. In six months, they will be married, and cancer…
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These Curtains Have To Go by Richard Keller
“Thank you for taking the time to meet with me today.” “Us,” TZ17 intervened. “Yes, us,” BS28 agreed. “We have lowered the speed of our processors to an intelligence level that should make us understandable to you.” The two humans stared. Not surprisingly, they’d been in suspended animation for a hundred years. “When your planet…
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“Goats” by Clay Cantrell
“Randy had enough.”
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“The Understanding” by Lana Citron
‘Say we found it together… we found it today… say it.’
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“Before Fall Semester” by Ariya Mamun
“It was the last truly hot day of the summer. It was also the last day before the semester started.”
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“Lonnie T” by Michael Cox
“I’m going to see Lonnie.”
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“Pyramid of the Bees” by Charles Haddox
“Do not touch what belongs to the dead,” it hums in an aged, monotonous bee voice, as it enters the crack in the wall and the impenetrable darkness beyond.
