Submitted Short Stories
By Marc D. Goldfinger The first thing I noticed after hugging the kids and wiping the tears away was the mound of plastic garbage bags in the middle of the living room—and the smell. The two big dogs circled around the garbage pile. I saw my daughter creeping under a […]
By Tony X Stanton I stood on the terrace having a quiet smoke at 11pm with only 6 empty chairs and 3 tables for company. Standing in the shadows beside a taped off area with a pool that seemed to be full of green slime. Just being within ten feet […]
by Dr. Hercule Maelstrom art by Clayton Luce I am a man, a man who is attracted to women. I am not a feminist or a male rights activist, though I can honestly see the points of both ideologies. I write about things I know with the intention of informing other […]
By Tony X Stanton art by Josh Chambers We were playing away rehearsing for a gig that would never happen when Wiggy the bass player started to smell smoke. As Wiggy normally appeared to be stoned into orbit most times, we ignored him and kept playing…badly. When the dense smoke […]
by Brad OH Inc. I arrived at the fourth annual United Corporate Global Election promptly at 9:47am, and immediately began to regret the flask of whiskey I’d surreptitiously quaffed on the commuter shuttle over. The ride had been a full 45 minutes, and as I’d been rushed at high velocity […]
By Kidman J. Williams art copyright© 2015 joeyfeldman, all rights reserved www.joeyfeldman.com I was sitting there staring at this young sandy-haired boy on my television screen as Judge James Gosnell approached his bench, “Please be seated,” he called out like it was a normal day at work. He sat down and you […]
by Kyle K. Mann The fact is, I didn’t know who she was, and she was scary. Back in 1968 I was a bright-eyed lad of 17 with shoulder-length hair and a full, just-grown mustache, which made me look older. I’d gone from weenie punk to fully-fledged Bay Area hipster […]
By R.T. Moody art by kristjan kristjansson Hung over, Jared Marvel vomited once on himself while sleeping and then again in the toilet a few hours later… Upon leaving the bathroom, he hit the light switch again. It had been three weeks since the electric company had shut the power off and he […]
By R.T. Moody artwork by EDWARD For a time after he had awakened, Daniel Corbin, gazed up at the star-studded, moon lit sky… He had spent his whole life examining the heavens, and it still filled him with as much awe now as it did when he was just a boy. […]
By Maven Cade Leary I quit smoking weed once, for about a week. I was in an ashram, and out of respect for their rules, I arrived stone cold sober without any backup. I was still young and under the impression that there was going to be some serious mystical […]
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