short story

Grand Champion

James Callan
There is no princess waiting to be saved. There are no rings, rupees, or coins to collect along the way. There is no prize money. No cheerful celebration. No fu...
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Zoom In

John Thompson Guillén
I’m with my drinking buddies and all I have to do is lean over once and whisper at them, psst, and then I just start on it. It was from a morning where I wok...
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Showered in Gold

Danila Botha
She was always unapologetically pissing his money away. Right now, in her capacity as an executive assistant in an integrated health clinic, she was spending ev...
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The Big Joke

Daniel Roman
The trumpet sounds through intercom speakers in the form of a man’s voice—“2 minutes”—echoing off these blackened underground walls. In “2 minutes” I will learn...
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Dry Ice/Wet Eyes

Don Robishaw
Five Years Ago Yesterday  “What’s the diagnosis, doctor?” “Need a new kidney.” “How much time?” “Five years.”     It's a brisk morning. While tr...
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Water Babies

Mary Thorson
A mother walking towards a lake with a baby is inherently terrifying. It gets more terrifying if it’s her own baby, but anyone’s baby will do. Water, in general...
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Space Mountain

H.M. Ryan
His brother Alex died, they buried him, a few days passed, and then George booked the tickets to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. George got tickets for himsel...
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To the Other Side

Mari Klein
They left their homes with only the essentials: a single suitcase to set out with. All other valuables that proved difficult to move or unnecessary for survival...
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Spaghettification

Emily Buli
When you go through a black hole, your body turns to spaghetti. It can’t withstand the extreme gravitational pressure, so it gets stretched long and thin—a thre...
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VOCABULARY

Peter DeMarco
Henry liked to spell multi-syllabic words, like dilapidated, one of the new words from a sixth grade Halloween vocabulary assignment. For extra credit, the teac...
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Support Group

Andrea Taylor
I settle into my chair, a kid’s school desk, in the Baptist church classroom. I barely fit. Around me, others take their seats as well. I know most of these peo...
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Imaginary Summer

Mike Murphy
It was 9am when Officer Onion strolled up Union Street in his new sweat-wicking shorts. They showed off his big, pasty calves. By the way he moved across the we...
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Determine

Patch McCurry
Prologue   In the fraught tides of space the door hinges of one particular door rotate endlessly without cause. In one smooth, continuous motion they b...
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Cuckoo 

Andrew Tran
An orange bird flies overhead in a padded foam room.   Theo, a 25-year-old Vietnamese American, blinks.   The bird is gone. He sits alone ...
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Dog Person

JH Tomen
I’m so sick of these goddam dogs. To clarify — since 90% of my readers are on Earth — by dogs, I mean those creatures we found in the moon void, snarbls. Not th...
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The Last Outpost

Marcus Field
Edwin knew the risk. The penalty. Two Earth-Years ago, and of course that was still how they counted time, a crew member was ejected from the station for the ve...
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Lessons

Kevin Sterne
My stepdad would throw knives at me. It was a like a reflexes thing, catching a fly with chopsticks. Character building, a boy’s first funeral. I learned to wri...
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