Submitted Short Stories
by Count Iain Blair Marcel took another painkiller, gingerly lifted his coffee with his right hand to take a sip, and promptly poured most of it down the front of his new white linen shirt, dropping the mug in the process. Fuck! He should have listened to the doctor. “You’ll have to wear this cast for six weeks. Do not try and use your […]
by JUDE ELLMAN Winter break had concluded. A boy and a girl, locked in love and separated by a nation, were desperate to reunite. The frigid January air haunted every moment they spent outside. There was seldom a reason for them to step outdoors once reunited. When apart, she spent […]
by Count Iain Blair The beautiful blue naked women floated in front of Jim as heswam towards them, but he could never seem to get any closer.They just floated there effortlessly, watching him and smiling,graceful and mysterious. He tried one last time to reach them, butthey disappeared into the forest […]
by Jude Ellman The times were light, it was early summer, and a generally melancholic 16-year-old boy was catching his first glimpses of freedom. He was spending a week at the beach with some acquaintances from high school. He was a year younger than them, he had something to prove. […]
Squealing with excitement, Kateryna raced back into the room.
“The men outside my window blew me kisses. Oh, my God, they’re so cute. They have rifles.”
“They’re our heroes,” Svitlana said.
The car that stopped for me was decidedly funky, old and beat up. A beach cruiser, we used to call them in Hawaii. I fearlessly threw my pack in and jumped in the back seat. In the front seat, two rastas sporting huge wild dreadlocks looked at me with expressions bordering on disbelief.
by Steve Corbett That’s me standing at the peach-colored condo‘s tubular metal gate, staring at the killing ground where Nicole Brown Simpson’s thick blood once flowed, where Ronald Goldman also died in a deep crimson pool of his own gore unleashed by a vicious knife attack. I’m in Los Angeles […]
by J.W.E. Askew Whether it is the sight of transsexuals strolling down the street, packed synagogues or mobs of people brawling with the police, Iran never fails to defy expectations. This is a country far more enigmatic than the land of flag-burning zealots its portrayed as in the West. Yet, beyond […]
by Kidman J. Williams It has been 20 years since the 9/11 attacks. It was the worst assault on U.S. soil by a foreign enemy that our country had ever seen. I was just 23 years old living in an apartment on the sixth floor in Carol Stream, IL. It […]
by: Ty Reynolds 2:00 AM Watching a friend struggle to combat the effects of an intense acid trip is both infatuating and mildly terrifying. It gives rise to one of the great lists of “what-now’s?”. What the fuck do I do with this guy? Do I just sit back and […]
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