Fiction
Story of the Week
Son, do you know of shame? Then you must know that I cannot feel it.
Story of the Week
He could smell the bear’s breath, feel the hot huff against his ear.
Story of the Week
The wind was like a girl sobbing out her story of betrayal to the stars.
Story of the Week
Emil was busy applying his anger therapy, and it was working.
Story of the Week
Maybe all of it was possible. Maybe it all could work out.
Fiction
Maybe this was one thing in his life he had done right, or so he hoped.
Fiction
Here they were, two surviving soldiers from opposite sides.
Story of the Week
We left our lives behind us as fast as the Beemer’s zero to sixty.
Story of the Week
The boy imagined his dead grandfather haunting the world.
Story of the Week
“It means,” Stoner said again, and could not finish what he had begun.
Fiction
Long and black, almost thick, the night comes to drape my shoulders.
Fall Contest Winners
“Mind you come straight home,” Mrs. Heywood always says.
Story of the Week
No one is dead, but you should come back. See what’s become of us.
Story of the Week
Truth, it seems, spills from movies and sitcoms in the wires’ wake.
Fall Contest Winners
My sister’s fever wasn’t gone at all, but dazzling—suspended over us.
Story of the Week
This is a place where young girls are butchered in old-time songs.
Story of the Week
Turned out Bauer was one of the ones brought alive by misery.
Story of the Week
Henry surprised himself with his inability to start looking for a job.
Fiction
What was she thinking, driving alone to see a man she’d never met?
Story of the Week
If it were me, kid, I’d swallow. You bet I would. But first I’d run like hell.
Fiction
Put yourself in bad positions, they’ll remind us. Address your weaknesses.
Fiction
“Aren’t you full of surprises,” Talinda would have said. If she had known.
Fiction
“Whoa, look—the monkey prof. Can you believe it? He was just on TV.”
iStories
In Ovid’s tale, the virgin Philomela was raped by her brother-in-law.
