rjaconnell1
Ray is an anxious psychotic with an eating problem and sensitivity to smells. This is a small extract/memory of his childhood past
Chesney McDonald
Margot is a master sommelier living in the angelic shadow of her detective brother Stephen. When Stephen needs her bloodhound nose to help solve a crime, she must decide who's side she's really on.
Jeffrey Vines
A maniacal bird torments a man trying to get his job done.
cotypoynter
Greg, a middle-aged professor, following the loss of his daughter and the failure of his marriage, relocates to a rented room in the countryside.
Dominik Hageback
A paid memoirist takes a commission somewhere in the global South, to (ghost)write the autobiography of a man named Kroll. Writer and subject are doubles, ambiguously connected.
Yegwen
What if one of the irreplaceble engineers in a matrian colony commits an unforgettable crime?
Glenn Mitchell
A researcher collaborates with a prison warden to experiment on inmates. The warden fears being exposed by the leaking of information, but it's a different type of leak they should be worried about.
Kat Gardiner
A snapshot from a young woman's life in the year after she moved to a small town to open an all ages venue and coffee shop with her husband. Set in the Pacific Northwest in 2007
mindbat
Julia thought her teacher would be *happy* she's invented a time machine.
Ralph Stefan
Astrophysicists and Google give the protagonist more than he can bargain for.
mscherer
Three alien spacecraft, one damaged, land in the rugged wilderness of the North Cascades. Once the damaged ship is repaired they leave in peace and in the process, destroy Earth.
Joe P
An astronaut snaps and inadvertently kicks off a series of brutal murders, but no one really dies.
Brad
At 7:50am every weekday morning the mute Calvin leaves the homeless mission and walks to the abandoned Tomorrow Technologies building. Today Helen finds out what's drawing him him there.
hayjitter
A young woman realizes that the magic of requited love does not last forever.
Dwayne
A man reads a social media post from an old crush. As flash fiction, it isn't meant to get much longer.
Bellbird
I read about Persia (as it was then) for the first time when I was a child. Never dreaming that I would one day know this country and its people quite well. This is an account of a single day.
Oliver Oliver
One man's trash is another man's treasure. And one little girl's dream is anyone else's nightmare. *Edit* Just to be clear, this is an excerpt from a larger piece so don't expect resolution here.
Rachel Capps
A true story. The beginning of my story through stroke so the night of my stroke.
Oliver Oliver
A husband's dirty secret is hurting his marriage and professional life.
mscherer
A down and out TV evangelist receives a visit from an Alien who wants to meet Jesus Christ.
E.T. meets Leap of Faith.
Frase
A successful businessman journeys to a hostel in an Indonesian jungle to repay his debt for twenty years of good fortune.
smithreynolds
a glimpse of artistic impotence: Risk and power, and the balls to talk back.
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