Fiction

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

“There was the rabbit lying in the middle of the road, legs limp but twitching before its head sagged and went still.”

by Anne Valente | Tuesday, September 05, 2023

One Look Back

“Now, after days of asking, she and her mother were finally minutes away from the cabin.”

by Ann Beattie | Thursday, August 31, 2023

“I got a collar for the boy, a nice leather number with steel studs that made him look a touch mean and inspired me to get myself a steel-studded camera harness, and off we’d walk, miles a day between jobs.”

by Bill Roorbach | Thursday, July 27, 2023

Under Covers

“This is the story Lulu told me when I was little, since before my mom died. There’s a man. He’s very sick. ... When girls misbehave, when they don’t do as they’re told, that man comes and takes them.”

by Alejandro Puyana | Thursday, April 27, 2023

The Purchased Bride

by Peter Constantine | Monday, March 20, 2023

Housewarming

“He averted his eyes and remembered something a yoga teacher had often told him, that when you thought people were laughing at you, they were only laughing near you.”