Stories
Fiction
I used to be known for the humor of my music, the lightness of touch.
Fall Contest Winners
She had boyfriends before she met him. Well, not really boyfriends.
N30B Winners
Her sly smile was a vicious remnant of her life before Real Life began.
Story of the Week
Keaton didn’t control his emotions; he put them to use.
Story of the Week
My head was muffled in velvet, my body exposed in an old slip.
Story of the Week
Pale dust clung to their skin like the lime he had thrown on the dead.
Story of the Week
Shit happens, you still have to pay up or lose it all, even if it ain’t your fault.
Classics, Story of the Week
Upon his supine monstrous shape there was a colossal inertia.
Story of the Week
He got people on the conveyor belt that carried them up to heaven.
Fiction
For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.
Fall Contest Winners
“Refuge,” Nina said, tilting her head back; it was a word she learned.
Winter Contest Winners
She realises now that she has said nothing at all on this call.
Story of the Week
It’s difficult to be blessed by Madam Pele. She gives wonderful trouble.
Story of the Week
She offered her face up for what should be a brotherly kiss.
Fall Contest Winners
Her previous existence seemed unreal, now, a faint rumor.
Story of the Week
She’d lifted the plot from a TV show she’d watched the night before.
Fiction
She looks in the mirror above the sink, and her image makes eye contact.
Story of the Week
He didn’t fall in line with our well-established porn-shop hierarchy.
Fiction
Stripped we are — no mark of wealth or rank upon us. We wear our skins.
Fiction
John-Michael kept his mouth open until saliva had pooled behind his teeth.
Fiction
Kenny Wade makes do with short-term schemes and part-time work.
Fiction
I hear Tchaikovsky when I close my eyes and pretend I’m flying.
Story of the Week
When one of the Baxters yelled, “Hey, Turd,” we all turned our heads.
Fiction
It was as if the stranger in the train carriage had taken out a knife.
Story of the Week
“I’ve already submitted the course grades,” Costa said warily.
