Short Stories
Terror and Reprieve
On the morning after the day everything changed, I woke up before my alarm. I let the steady waves of panic wash over me as I took deep breaths and realized I wouldn't fall back asleep. I told...
Shelly Rzewuski
What was so wrong with me now?
Once I remember my father saying how he missed me as a little kid. I had felt insulted. Now, I often think back to this comment. I love my much younger sisters, now in their twenties, but I too...
Shelly Rzewuski
Elevator Memoir-1955
Elevator memoir 1955
No Lackawanna train Fridays.
Instead, Mommy drives from Orange to Newark to pick up Daddy at his office.
Parked, we run to the elevator bank, press the...
Donna Lee Goldberg
My Friend
She was beautiful and kind the way you want your friends to be. We were inseparable. I followed her everywhere. I used to think that she was an angel sent to be my friend.
“Then where are my...
Franklin Cota
Gone
Candle stubs flicker on the table, wax dripping. A bottle of Cabernet stands open by one of the two place settings. A wine glass lays on the tablecloth, its contents spreading, deep blood red. In...
Lee Ann Smith
A New Love
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Donald Carugati
Great Oak
He had a decision: climb down or jump and take his chances. His branch swayed under punishing blows from the wind.
Storm's coming.
He looked around, observing squirrels prance around...
Shonto Olander
History History History (Always Repeating)
Ana trudged up the muddy road with her mom. They’d left home as the bombing began. Everything abandoned. Then her mother fell, Ana saw blood coming out of her head. As she bent down by her mom,...
Joseph Rutch
Earth Odyssey TV Show
I have been watching a very interesting TV Show Called Earth Odyssey with Dylan Dreye on NBC every Saturday at 10am. Earth Odyssey is a TV show about wildlife around the world. On the TV show, it...
Yan Yakirevich
Doppelganger
The boy heard his parents with them downstairs. Laughing. Schmoozing. While he lay in darkness, facing the open closet.
Silently a shadow emerged, twisting on all fours. Like a bug.
It...
Brandon Scott
A Slice of a Day
How it is difficult to maintain a peaceful mind.
A deli in the afternoon. I finally get to my turn to order as a man saunters in and goes, “A meatball sandwich with extra sauce.”
A...
Keiko James
Speeding Ticket
The State Theater performance ended at 1AM. My lovely spouse asked can you get home in 15 minutes. On Ryders Lane I picked up speed. Turning into our driveway a police car also pulled in. The...