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A THOUSAND MILES AWAY

By Linda Niehoff

We were always driving and once in the night in the dark after hours and hours, days even of only…

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…

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…

Ghost Girl Ballet

By Chelsea Stickle

After Edgar Degas’ “Dance Rehearsal, 1874” People say ballet theaters are haunted by the dancers who died tragically young, but…

Like Soap

By Slawka G. Scarso

When we were fourteen, Tessa, Gina, and I used to laugh at Mrs. Meade, our history teacher, who always came…

I Told Them I’m a Vampire Who Likes To Drink Blood

By Kristina Saccone

I wished it on my 16th birthday candles. The school counselor said to believe in myself, so I did. It…

Scars and Time

By James Palmer

She has a small scar behind her left earlobe and I wonder if she knows that I’m aware of it.…

Hardwood Nights

By Margaret MacInnis

Her first love stands in the doorway, a lanky licorice stick of a boy, all words and high tops, sweet…

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