By Ernest Langston / Fiction / The two-lane road curved up and into a pine tree forest. Country-styled houses were sprinkled along the...

By Iris Harris / Fiction / “I know it’s your week with Sam starting tonight, but I don’t think you need to come all the way down to the...

By John Fried * for bf / Fiction / Louise sat at the bar, working on that day’s crossword, waiting for her date to arrive. He was late....

By Ed Davis / Fiction / Marla hadn’t been home five minutes before the doorbell rang. Shit. She’d’ve ignored it except she was expecting...

By Loren Mayshark / Fiction / Thom grabs a plastic grocery basket with four wheels, three of them askew, and drags it into the Hemköp...

by Devin Santiago Dettman / Fiction / I lay with my head on the grain of the picnic table. I’m sure it’s cutting shallow lines into my...

by Emily Hessney Lynch / Fiction / Kayla usually started and ended each shift with a lemon cookie. She wasn’t sure if Lucy started baking...

by Alan Toth / Fiction / Most people are a little confused when I tell them how I got here. They always want to know why I did it – where...

by Ray Berman-Schneider / Fiction / My mother cried the day my grandfather died. This may seem like an appropriate response, but she...

by Andrew Wingfield / Fiction / “The medicine will be there tomorrow,” the woman from the specialty pharmacy assured Oscar on the phone....

by Chandler Gibb / Fiction / Madi sits tall on her stool with her palette in one hand and brush in the other. In front of both of us are...

by Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez / Fiction / I’m sure you don’t think of me any longer, but today I’m thinking of you. I don’t know what it is...

by Chelsey K. Shannon / Fiction / Coco Bouldin wouldn’t cry about missing her train. Doing that would risk mussing her makeup and so...

by Edward Belfar / Fiction / The community session convened at 8:00 each morning in the conference center, a low, rustic-looking,...

by Marilyn Ramirez / Fiction / It’s never easy for a daughter to remember what kind of man her father once was. More specifically, a...

by James Callan / Fiction / I saw her in a crowd.​ She? Maybe not. The sex sat right upon the edge, indeterminate. One angle revealed a...

by Bruce Kamei / Fiction / “Tell me about Chiyoko.”​ “In elementary school, there was the perfect Japanese girl. Every day she wore a...

by Jordan Nishkian / Fiction / In grief, we keep. ​ By the time Grandma died, her house had become a museum. This morning, when we...

by Jeremy S. Ford / Fiction / I remember the first night George Cabal came to Bar D’état because it was the last night I saw Sheridan...

by Anna Stolley Persky / Fiction / Let’s face it, we’re all trying to get the best high we can, one way or another. If we’re honest about...

by Ona Marae / Fiction / Dulce sat in the closet, barely inhaling the musty air, flinching as she listened to the screams. It had been...

by Jack Benzinger / Fiction / Afternoon sunlight pierced through the taxi driver’s windshield and blurred his vision, just as it had...

by Francis Flavin / Fiction / The sun shining through the stain glass windows created a noon day gloaming in the cavernous nave. The...

by Christie B. Cochrell / Fiction / During the night the fire had crept nearer to their house in the deep canyon north of town. But after...

by Feng Gooi / Fiction / Just as she reached out to take the bags of noodles, the woman suddenly stopped and stared at Yi Hong. She was a...

by Thomas Penn Johnson / Fiction / Green Mountain blackberries freshly picked in August provide the makings of a pie more highly prized...

by Devan Brettkelly / Fiction / Ashley Hubbard lay on her back at the bottom of The Pit, watching other teens on rusty four-wheelers ride...

by Alex Law / Fiction / The boy retreated without turning back towards the maelstrom of sound. His toes gripped the carpet and felt the...

by Amanda Ganus / Fiction / Open When I Am Gone ​ My Honey, ​ If you are reading this, I am gone. If I am not gone yet and you have...

by Ann Calandro / Fiction / The phone rang early Monday morning. I didn’t answer. “I’m selling the house,” announced Catherine. “If you...