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2013 South American Short Story Contest Winner: The Wanderer

by HM Gruendler-Schierloh Editor’s Note: congratulations to HM Gruendler-Schierloh for winning the 2013 South American Short Story Contest. This is the winning entry. Thumbnail photo source: Creative Commons. Clutching an oversize canvas bag, the young man [...]

A Place in the Shade: Part II

by Erik Berg Editors Note: This month we publish the second section of Erik Berg’s novel “A Place in the Shade”. The novel is a chronicle of several families set among the mountains and oil fields [...]

Listen to Me, Jestin

photo by Creative Commons by Liezel Pichay Friday night was supposed to be the best of all nights. Normally, after work on Friday, I would go straight up to the roof-deck of our old boarding house [...]

Flash Fiction: The Devil Runs Fast

by Ute Carson They climbed over the stone wall of our gated community. During the day the thefts were minor, garden tools left in the yard, a bike leaning against a garage and even my denim [...]

Flash Fiction: The Girl Who Did Not Exist

by Kristine Ong Muslim I insisted to the bald man that there was no Lauren, but he won’t stop asking me about her. It looked as if he only wanted to hear me say [...]

Flash Fiction: Zombie

by Kristine Ong Muslim Every family had one. So, when my sister came back from the dead, we accepted her. When she came downstairs for breakfast, we acted as if everything was normal. She smelled really [...]

Rio de Janiero

by Natalia de Cartney The girl from Ipanema, she’s still there. So is Rio and the sun. “This is just a little samba Built upon a single note. Other notes are bound to follow.” A man [...]

The Miracle of St. Angelicus

By Joseph Grant St. Angelicus had seen better days. Or at least this was the notion that was in the back of the minds of the decreasing parishioners of late. Similar could be said of the [...]

River Baby

by Torii Grabowski When John Morgan found the baby in the river, he thought it was already dead. It was eleven in the morning. He knew what time it was because it was a Tuesday, and [...]

Killing the Familiar

by Chip Livingston The first time you heard the story you were in ninth grade at Eldorado High, when Will repeated a flunked school year and ended up in the same science class with you and [...]

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