Alpha079er
A girl struggles with balancing loyalty to family and community but gets caught up in her Uncle's vendettas and vanity in wartime Italy.
sans
This is a comedic story I wrote quite a while ago about a man and his banjo. The voice is very southern (US) and may not appeal to some readers... I'm not sure.
Andrew Irwin
A Dandelion is born and falls in love with a rose that he cannot reach.
lgarano
This is a rough draft of a short short story I'm working on. Feedback appreciated.
ginatroisi
This is short story about a mother who is grappling with the decisions she has made as a parent, the dissolution of her marriage, and her uncertainty about what has happened to her son.
DanielO
A young woman must confront her family and her past, personified by her younger brother.
J. L.
This is a story about a girl's disconnection from those around her while living in a haze of pharmaceuticals.
Jackson Vrana
A brand new detective with an overbearing mother poses as a hitman for an old woman.
Rose Kimura
Everyone has a secret. This family of three is not an exclusion. A teenage girl makes choices that lead her to seeing herself, her mom and twin-brother in a new light
mark william mills
A woman finds herself suddenly thrust back into the cycle of familial abuse.
walterstc
What happens when this tired server would rather hang head and go home than clean up their mess of broken glass...
dstoll
Be warned that the raw treatment of sex (as explicit as the most explicit Philip Roth) in this account of youth misspent by an American adrift in England in the early Seventies won't be for everyone.
Ava
An older woman kisses a pot roast, and a young woman finds a secret closet.
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.
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
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