Posts
“Maya is considered an illusion”: A Conversation with Patricia Bidar on Wild Plums
by Erin Vachon In Patricia Bidar’s debut novelette Wild Plums [ELJ Editions, 2024], Maya moves to Oregon with an older…
Or the Highway
You can see the backdrop of my loneliness from the interstate. Today it’s an advertisement for the World’s Largest Truckstop,…
Lines Left
My dad mowed the lawn every Saturday morning—weather permitting—for seventy-two years. Vacations were scheduled around it, plans turned down, brunches…
2024 Micro Prize Longlist
Microfictions often set-up and exhibit their own kind of narrative rules, and we’re excited to honor these 47 rule-breaking stories.…
Blood-Related
They spoke with such thick accents that she sometimes couldn’t understand them, her father’s distant parents, but she clearly heard…
Pulse
We walk cautiously along the trail in leaden morning light, here for the spawning salmon and for a change. That’s…
Sixty, Fifty-Nine, Fifty-Eight
On our first date, our only date, I lied to you when you asked me about my biggest fear. Sinkholes,…
Sugar Highs & Lows
The teenagers on the subway were giddy as they downed their Starbursts, shrieking and giggling, trading yellows, reds, and oranges.…
Submit Your Stories
Always free. Always open. Professional rates.