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Shed This Skin

By Annie Frazier

Tonight, I make my return to the water. The weather is warm, the moon full, the time right again to…

Woman of the Hour

By Claire Polders

Sixty minutes before she steps in front of a speeding van, she blenders bird seeds with berries for her vegan…

Switch

By Susan Perabo

That fall we spent our Saturdays deep in Amish country. We didn’t live there, but Becca’s boyfriend did, forty minutes…

A Pig Called Stripe

By Iona Rule

My uncle had a spotted pig, called Stripe. Which tells you a lot about my uncle. It started small but…

Anthology II Contest Winners

By Fractured Lit
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Caterpillar Killer by Shastri Akella Dirty Shirley by Shannon Bowring Giving Up by Catherine Cade Picking Up Stones by Brad…

Skeleton Crew

By Beth Hahn

There are places where everyone wants to buy a house, but that’s not here. We have empty subdivisions. We have…

Can I Tell You a Secret?

By Julija Stanislava

If word gets around, I’ll say you made it all up. I’ll tell them you’re lying, that you’re just looking…

Feeding on the Thamirabarani Metro

By M. L. Krishnan

Super fast and super premium. We wished that were true about the greyscale beat of our lives. Its expectations a…

Thirty Years After Graduation, I Spy You in Aisle Five   

By Sarah Freligh

I’d have bet prison, fifteen to life for offing your ex while he slept next to the younger blonde who’d…

The Hollowing of Her Bones

By Fractured Lit
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Faye says she doesn’t believe in coincidence, but the day she burns the last of the cows, two women hurl…

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