1.Snow Plow
I’m plowing the slushy snow when my snow plow bursts into flames. It’s February. It’s my third day on the job. It’s a beautiful and disgusting wint...
Each night, while working the night shift at Hot Topic, my wife and I discuss our idea to open our own store for cats called Pspspspsps. This is our grand dream...
Years ago I went to high school with a French guy who punched cobras in the face for fun. His name was Jacques. No one thought he would ever do anything with hi...
For nearly every night of the past year, Simon Page has stumbled, half-blind and terrified, through the morphing liquid maze of horrors that are his chronic nig...
At the jazz club, me and Kyoko meet a guy who speaks piano. Instead of words, his mouth forms the sound of a Yamaha baby grand. Sitting at our circular table ne...
On Friday night, me and Kyoko drive out to the Pine Valley Mall. The mall shut down six years ago, but we still go every weekend. It’s something of a tradition ...
Hey Madame Clara, it’s so great to talk to you again! I’m not sure if you remember me, but I’m Lightning the Interdimensional Cheetah, and a few weeks ago I cal...
A few weeks after me and Kyoko got back together for the second time, we went to the wedding for one of her friends from work. Kyoko hadn’t put her own wedding ...
Dawn had only been in Brain Debris for six months, but already her headbanging was legendary. Sure, all the bands in the New York death metal scene headbanged w...
Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls? is the answer I get, but it has nothing to do with my question. This is how things have been going ever since Trevo...
The day after my thirty-fourth birthday, I had a dream about Lana Del Rey. In the dream me and Lana were sitting on a California beach at midnight, smoking weed...
Wallow on, dudes!
So you’re depressed. Your life is a failure. Every dream and aspiration you’ve ever had is gone and out of reach. Even your back-up...
For thirty-one days you’ve been trapped inside this house, searching for an exit. There is a part of you that craves this idea of freedom more than an...
Steve Gergley is the author of four books. His most recent novel, Episode 3328: Ian Sharp, was published in January of 2025 by Translucent Eyes Press. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Maudlin House, Passages North, Always Crashing, and others. He tweets @GergleySteve. His fiction can be found at: https://stevegergleyauthor.wordpress.com/. In addition to his own writing, he is also the editor of scaffold literary magazine.