Category: Fiction
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Sum of Our Parts
Fiction by Tracy Maxwell Jon never wanted to leave. He’d stirred earlier, happier than he could remember.
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Kokomo
Fiction by Doug Crandell Our mother had been to Kokomo three times in one year.
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Something’s Wrong with David
Fiction by Linda A. Prince Norah waited six months for her husband to return from Vietnam. Every morning, she wondered if David was alive, or half-alive, or if he was a corpse, or the remains of a man who couldn’t be identified because David was always losing things and had most likely lost his ID…
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Paloma
New Limestone Review, NLR fiction, short fiction, short stories, Uzodinma Okehi, Uzodinma Okehi fictionExcerpt from “House of Hunger” by Uzodinma Okehi Mist. Like steam, listing, through karst cliffs dense with trees. And green. So-called, finger mountains.
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Wax Palm and Bougainvillea
Fiction by Casey Bell Juan Carlos replanted my hydrangeas and lilies into large clay pots on rolling casters so I could rearrange them on my own, so I could be sure they had the perfect balance of light and shade through summer and spring.
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Shit Pond
Fiction by Casey DW Jones It all started shortly after we killed that possum. Coop and I were down at the Sandpits, an old gravel quarry filled with water, a half mile south of our trailer.
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Split Level
Fiction by Patrina Corsetti +++I didn’t take the transfer in order to advance my career. I don’t have a career. I’m twenty-three and I work for a large hotel chain as an assistant front desk associate/maid substitute.
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Creek Bed Blues
Fiction by Bre Lillie +++I met my best friend the day my brother Keen came howling back to our family’s home with blood pulsing from his nose in short bursts.