Short Story
by Maria Valenzuela Frangakis
We moved to Río Hondo from our small village of San Jacinto in the heat of summer in 1962. I’d been hearing about this impending move for as long as I ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Petra Pallier
I've always had a healthy respect for animals. I liked them in a scientific, distanced sort of way, and to watch them, and read about them; how their ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Gosia Rokicka
Mrs Sartori was lucky in her death, almost as much as she was unlucky in her life. During the two years she spent in her flat undiscovered, she ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by L. Vocem
Content warning: This text contains references to sexual assault and violence. A bus arrives at the strip mall parking lot. I check the number. It’s ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Viktorija Curlin
“Come buy our orchard fruits! Sweet to tongue and sound to eye, come buy, come buy!” So sang the elven merchants by the water, each and every day. ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Gabriel Ramirez Acevedo
Let me tell you this: I bet you wouldn’t really notice your body was running low on nutrients before you started feeling sick. I learned that from ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Lucy Braun
It only takes one asshole to ruin a good thing for everybody else. Today the water is surprisingly warm. After everyone’s heating bill went up thanks ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Elina Kumra
He only had eyes for the moon, but I fell in love with him anyway… The night we met, he fluttered across the café table littered with teacups and ...read the full piece >>Short Story
by Nadir Jabur
1 The coldest Christmas Eve on record and it was hands down my biggest order ever. I’d been driving for almost a year since The Daily Witness fired ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
by Peter Gončar
There lay a valley between two ridges, covered with thick but withered grass. The distance between the ridges was quite large, clearly not less than a ...read the full piece >>Supported by: