The Bad Luck
“Here, there, it doesn’t matter. You need to live in the moment.” A short story that contemplates the authentic cost of severing the ties that…
Fiction
Big Mama Extorts a Bank Loan
A fantastical work of fiction where a bold, zealous canine commences its quest toward world domination… by: Wendy Stone Big Mama cruised through the sliding…
Mother Possum
In this short story an unwelcome visitor brings to mind a vanished love, and a malicious plot… by: John Sharkey1 A large, grey possum pokes her pointy…
Weight
“My, my, you were starting some mess up in there.” An offering of flash fiction featuring a precocious, socially conscious child who bravely challenges the…
Sister Sophie
“There is love bound up in my decision. Do not fear. All will happen as it is supposed to.” A fetching work of fiction with…
Two Flashes by P.J. Powell
Two offerings of flash fiction, one where revenge is a dish best served with childhood wonder, and another where a cosmic misunderstanding is earnestly pondered……
A Winter Mooring
A reflective offering of fiction where uneasy echoes of the past dance intimately upon the present… by: Steven John “You didn’t tell me you had…
Pack Animals
A short story that explores the complexity of one woman’s independence, of wanting to be free of a man, but wanting to be part of…
Story Time
“He was more comfortable alone than with others, and since writing was a mostly solitary act, it fit him well.” A short story where social…
Gravity
“She felt bathed in an abiding peace, one that her soul welcomed and her mind struggled to comprehend.” A contemplative short story where a second…
Martha’s Story
“A lie was hard to swallow. The truth impossible.” A fictional telling of a young woman’s coercion into accepting a plural marriage in order to…
Axiom of Dominion
“I dream because my life is never going to be this, and I yearn.” A work of creative fiction that strikingly finds an author imagining the…