I'm A Fool by Sherwood Anderson, 1922. [su_divider] I'm A Fool It was a hard jolt for me, one of the most bitterest I ever had to face. And it all came about through my own foolishness too. Even yet sometimes, when I think of it, I want...
I Want to Know Why by Sherwood Anderson. [su_divider] I Want to Know Why We got up at four in the morning, that first day in the east. On the evening before we had climbed off a freight train at the edge of town, and with the true...
The Wives of the Dead by Nathaniel Howthorne, 1832. [su_divider] The Wives of the Dead The following story, the simple and domestic incidents of which may be deemed scarcely worth relating, after such a lapse of time, awakened some degree of interest, a hundred years ago, in a...
The Gloaming by Sean Finn [su_divider] We stood on the porch together, staring at the vast blue twilight above the horizon, waiting for the man with no eyes. He sells water, and we pay with our dreams. He first arrived three years into the drought, when the town...
Alice Through The Broken Glass was written by Riel Rosehill [su_divider]The significance of stage fright and anything other than life itself evaporated the moment the window shattered from the impact of my body.Sparkling shards formed an iridescent cloud around me, suspended under the clear blue sky....
"Two Stubborn Women" is a short story by S.K. Wulf. [su_divider] The night is thick and heavy with clouds when I paint the front of The House yellow. I paint quickly and quietly. I don’t want to wake my neighbor up. The brush goes shhh shhh against the wall...
Free is a science fiction short story by Sherri Moorer. [su_divider] Zelina walked in the middle of the train track. She and her sister used to lay in bed listening for the comforting whistle of the train that passed at three o’clock every morning. Their father was...
"The Looking Glass" is a story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. [su_divider] NEW YEAR'S EVE. Nellie, the daughter of a landowner and general, a young and pretty girl, dreaming day and night of being married, was sitting in her room, gazing...
Amber Code Hell by Scott Christenson [su_divider] Last week after getting off a flight in Hong Kong and being sent into a 3-day hotel quarantine, I was naked, alone and afraid. Admittedly, only naked when I needed a shower, but alone and afraid much of the other...
28 Letters by Alex Sultan [su_divider] A gem can not be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Sejong swept his books off the shelf. Rain pelted the world outside. The king opened one of his many works, the spine of it splitting under his force, and...