Stories tagged short-fiction


66 views33 comments00 favs

Before she walks to the porch, she stands beside the car, exhaling the evening: the draining intellectual banter of the social maw, the glasses of champagne, the handshakes and awkward silences, the talk of books she hadn't yet read and of books she'd read but…


12331233 views66 comments11 fav

Listen, I don’t want to get all teary and here I am getting all teary, but it’s not what you think. What it is is that I think about that very first time, when she comes out of the bathroom completely naked and she looks like heaven’s very best neig


12201220 views55 comments22 favs

In Honduras they say a prayer that sounds like screaming at the top of your lungs...


12271227 views1010 comments44 favs

Two thousand and two was the worst year for love in the history of sports. People carried their sadness around in wheelbarrows.

House on Fire

979979 views11 comment11 fav

I started the fire. I started the fire in my room. I started the fire in my room because I was cold. I figured something small, in an old oil drum I kept in there, and no one would get hurt.

Cubicle Genie*

985985 views22 comments11 fav

At the TV station across the street two sports team mascots are dancing and miming for the cameras. There are some young men wearing baseball caps at the viewing window simulating sex acts for the cameras.

A story

1313 views00 comments00 favs

When I step out the door dad has the engine started and the sound travels clear on the gravel drive.


4848 views44 comments22 favs

The boy ate, the girl considered it.

What I Did on My Summer Vacation…600mg Twice Daily

11 view00 comments00 favs

I didn't realize it at the time, but my favorite summer vacation was the 30 days spent as an in-patient at a psychiatric unit for teenagers. I was fed, watered, medicated and entertained. It made me who I am today.

Easter Sunday

855855 views00 comments00 favs

It was Easter Sunday at the Ezra Baptist Church; everything was dressed in white for the wedding being held after the morning service remembering Christ’s resurrection. The congregation was packed in like sardines with out of town relatives on that day

Kick the ball straight and follow through

870870 views44 comments00 favs

She dragged the pink toes of her gym shoes as she shuffled to the batter's box, leaving two, thin straight lines in the packed-down dust behind her.

Day Late, Dollar Short

276276 views22 comments00 favs

Let's go through this one more time, the account holder, my grandmother is deceased. Dead people don't pay medical bills.

A pot of tea helps to pass the evening

876876 views22 comments00 favs

Charlie Parker never had a gig like this. I imagined he did, once, like me, steep mushrooms and make a potion, though I doubt he plodded through thick snow, soaking his sneakers and savoring the cold licking his toes, and making a contract with the full moon, to never…

The Game

360360 views44 comments22 favs

She would turn her back to me and giggling commence with "green light" at which point I would begin tearing my clothes off...

The Animals

241241 views44 comments00 favs

You're fetching coffee in the kitchen and your mother is patrolling the area with her brutalizing eye. She hands you the cream. Her big pooch can't help himself and besides. You have no idea how long it's been since a man's come in there.