“I live in a world of spring showers of acrylic and watercolor droplets painting the score on the pavement of a Chopin Nocturne.”
These were the last words my brother said to me...
#ShortStory by Jonathan Ferrini
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“I think they’re trying to kill me,” June whispered to her friend Irene. “They keep giving me tablets. But I’m canny. I hide them under my tongue, then spit them out.” She...
#ShortStory by Jacqueline Erasin
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Asses can lead revolutions. Though Candlewick wondered whether any revolutionary dwelt on failed rebellions as much as he did. Failure was more than a possibility. As he lay still and...
#ShortStory by Andy Ayash
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His mother held Jimbo by the bridle while Jack grabbed mane and jumped astride his back. She handed him the drugstore sack with the bottle of Delmar’s heart pills.
“The problem’s...
#ShortStory by Tammy Huffman
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Michael tried to control his panicked breathing into the little yellow cup while his eyes followed the umbilical tubing to the ceiling where it connected to a seemingly empty...
#ShortStory by Emma E. Murray
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Jean-Paul Sartre, once, wrote the complete truth in Existentialism and Human Emotions (1946) that later envisaged existentialism in the paradigms of psychology and human behaviour...
#Article by Ashish Dwivedi
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Alice Parker, alias Dragon Lady, enters Salvatore’s Cabaret, strolling past the Spanish stucco in a nouveau, half-kimono, sheer blouse, red lipstick and matching heels. She flutters...
#ShortStory by Don Robishaw
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“Three drugs will be administered to you by intravenous injection in the following order: First, ‘Midazolam’ will sedate you in the same fashion those poor devils on their knees...
#ShortStory by Jonathan Ferrini
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The blue-white beam of a flashlight bounces off the sarcophagi of the illustrious dead. The light stabs from side to side, probing Neoclassical niches, confirming that each tomb...
#ShortStory by Marco Etheridge
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I turned sixteen the summer my parents and their clan put up cabins on Lake Raven and sipped margaritas from frosty pitchers. The cabins were no more than glorified shacks...
#ShortStory by Michael Loyd Gray
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Many creatives aspire to excel in just one medium. Nick Hornby tells stories across many. Most would be familiar with Nick from his contributions to the film and literary canons.
Best...
#Article by Oliver Phisher
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Ellie Douglas, author of Death O Death, The Dead Undone, Fear Inducer, Hounded, Hounded 2, Toxic Desire, and the Dead Awake, it’s lovely to meet you.
It is lovely to...
#Article by Ryan Brinkhurst @SonOfSappho
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What is it about the story and me?
I let the story emerge, and I let it be beautiful. My job is to get out of the way of its natural shine and loveliness. There is a white page; I...
#Article by Isabella Mori
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Does making art have to hurt in order to be good? In our society painkillers are welcome. In all circumstances, this belief may sound cruel and appalling...
#Article by Rosa Arlotto
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They say from an upside-down vantage point the world is the same as when it enters the eye. I try to keep things that way, upside-down, but the world tries to right me.
“Well, what...
#ShortStory by Chad W. Lutz
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Dick said that after a while he just sat in the road at 55 miles an hour. Sat in the fast lane so speeders wouldn’t get it. He said it was his good deed for the day. He said...
#ShortStory by Richard Wayne Horton
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The museum label said it was one of only seven child sarcophagi from that period left in the world.
The ancient Egyptian relic was disconcertingly small, ornately embellished, and...
#shortstory by Joseph S. Pete
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In the resilient haze of my infanthood
A half-opened drawer of linens
Exudes my mother’s fragrance
Of jasmine, almond, and cloves.
Steeped in the dreamscape
Of plankton-strewn seas...
#Poetry by Emily Bilman
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From across the alley, they glare at me. Or maybe they can’t help but glare, their eyes built in permanent death. Or lack of life, I should say. After all, they never had life to...
#ShortStory by Nathalie Mitchell
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There I was, sitting on an enormous log by the water’s edge and gazing into the calming blue abyss of Lake Awanah. I missed the sunrise by a few hours, but I was still transfixed by...
#ShortStory by Alison Clary
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Just back from a too-brief lunch break, Brian climbed to the top of his stool and surveyed the people waiting in the lobby, rednecks, thugs, immigrants, and parolees. The Bowman...
#ShortStory by Robert L. Penick
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It was three in the morning when Ruthie awoke and walked from her spacious master bedroom out onto her expansive marble patio with a magnificent view of the Golden Gate Bridge in...
#ShortStory by Jonathan Ferrini
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“The Flores Family Flower Shop” was founded by my grandfather at a road side stand and grew to become a fifty-year-old favorite within San Diego.
I drive the truck to the...
#ShortStory by Jonathan Ferrini
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Dreams and secrets fall into the sea. Everybody knows that.
When the collecting fairies come tiptoeing through snow-white curtains in the night to stuff children’s secrets into their...
#ShortStory by Aqsa Mustafa
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Redtail leafloves were dancing at a great height from where Salma Hayaat stood at the far end of an alley. It was in the afternoon, while she waited for her camera crew to join her...
#ShortStory by Mehreen Ahmed
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“Ok, what about this one?” Beatrix held out her tablet and sat taller, causing the kitchen table to wobble.
Hector carried on scrubbing burnt cheese...
#ShortStory by Sonia Nicholson
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Is there a #literaryagent or #author who would be interested in working with me on a contest that helps to promote their #Novel?
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My Call is a #ShortStory by @SonOfSappho - Ryan Brinkhurst - about a predator who uses a phone call to terrify and capture a victim. #TransformativeFiction
Crying is a #ShortStory by Alan Brickman. The central character's grief following the death of his wife is made more complicated by her deathbed confession of marital infidelity. #TransformativeFiction
The Carnival is a #ShortStory by Christy Hoots. Rowan McArthur has always wanted to run his own carnival to delight and frighten his small village. He will give anything to have it. #TransformativeFiction
