Fiction
Flash Fiction
Everything Finds Its Tin
by Xheni Kapllani
How alike they are: biscuits and threads, needles and butter, loneliness and sugar, boxes and houses. Tights clumped together resemble feelings, ...read the full piece >>Short Story
Hummingbird
by Rachel Huh
Before She recites the story of how I became hers. I was in the middle of cooking, she tells me in Korean as she taps out a beat on the steering ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
i once fell in love with a girl named red
by Yuniang Liu
Her name is 朱丹 Zhu Dan. 朱 Zhu means vermillion. It’s a common Chinese surname. 丹 Dan means flaming cinnabar. In other words, her full name means ...read the full piece >>Short Story
POTATO POTATO
by Jay C. Alexander
Nancy knew we’d been growing in her pantry for weeks. It was the perfect home for us: damp, warm, and full of strange bacteria that helped us thrive ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
Slack Water
by Mileva Anastasiadou
My friend texts before she gets on the plane and says, how exciting, because she’s flying to see the love of her life, and I’m happy for her, but also ...read the full piece >>Short Story
The Love of Cobs
by Zuzana Minstrel
The willow tree loomed over the spot I chose for nesting. I built it, straw by straw, despite having no one to share it with. At least not yet. Maybe ...read the full piece >>Flash Fiction
The Party
by Elodie A. Roy
Every year before Christmas, Bill has a party. He invites the lonely hearts, the widowers and the dreamers of Moston. The haunted people he meets at ...read the full piece >>Short Story
The Thing We Buried
by Ethel Maqeda
Only Tabonga still remembered their bush. Even after all these years, it remained clear to her. But when she tried to remember it with her friends, ...read the full piece >>Short Story
The Things Our Parents Teach Us
by Olivia Samur
My mother always said, “No hagas papelón.” Don’t make a scene. Don’t embarrass yourself. Don’t give people something to talk about. She said it in the ...read the full piece >>