SEPTEMBER 2023, SHORT STORY, 4200 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 29: Avram Mordecai sits shiva for his dead sister Tamar with only Tamar herself in attendance. The memorial yahrzeit candle of remembrance burns auburn, lurid shadows waltzing upon Tamar’s face. Avram sits on …
AUG 2023, SHORT STORY, 4300 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 28: You are the ferryman. You have no memory of being anything else. Your posture is molded by the whims of the river, your fingers made to curl around the handle of your …
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JUNE 2023, SHORT STORY, 4300 WORDS Prefer to read this as an EPUB or PDF? Join our Patreon and instantly download issue 26: You die in the stupidest way possible, slipping off a ladder while scooping leaves out of the gutter, the wet, mulchy scent of them the last thing you ever smell. You land …
MAY 2023, SHORT STORY, 1500 WORDS During the untold hours, he is all memory and imagination. If he has a body, he is unaware of it. The same was true during certain periods of his life. What he remembers most about those final years was the fear. They never put it into words, but he …
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MAY 2023, SHORT STORY, 4300 WORDS He sits, hands on knees, as the warm pyramid of the sun climbs his legs, sifting in through the open window. His back is unbent, and his hair is thick but where once it was black as night water, now it is streaked with grey. The body on the …
APRIL 2023, SHORT STORY, 3500 WORDS We were fourteen when Edith fell into the millpond, but for years after that I wasn’t really sure if she was dead. We had the funeral, and the next day she showed up at my house just as usual. We continued to hang out together after school and at …
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APRIL 2023, SHORT STORY, 2000 WORDS 1 They say the Jar standing high on the hill above the city, silhouetted against the sky, alone and imposing, is the eternal stomach of the River God of the Valley, who is praised to devour us one by one. But one doesn’t have to be in the Jar …
MARCH 2023, SHORT STORY, 4300 WORDS Terra – 2198 AD Baba lay slumped on his desk, his pen dangling from his parchment hands. His grey hair lay in knotted clumps over the notebook, his tongue sticking slightly outwards, almost licking the page he was writing on. His last scribble was his own name, Parikshit Mehta, …