Short Story

Nobody Would Have Heard You

Motherhood can be a crushing disappointment.

  • Domenica Ruta

Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body

Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.

  • JR Fenn

The Reformatory

Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.

  • Tananarive Due

Sky Veins of Potosí

A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.

  • Jordy Rosenberg

Indefinitely

Life is for living, my dead mother said.

  • Lindsay R. Taylor

All the Places Without Windows

He will surprise her on the anniversary of the end.

  • Mike Jeffrey

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My Last Client

“I wanted his body to begin and end elsewhere, at home, meaning his home, wherever that was, meaning even I, whose job was to include him, wanted him out.”

  • Kristen Gleason

Sunflowers

Eventually, it became obvious that we didn’t have a mission. Or our mission, for what it’s worth, was the lack thereof.

  • Bryan Washington

Imagine Every Light Is a Woman Who Came to the City Alone

A mother is a mother, regardless of the latest information regarding her children.

  • Sarah Bruni

Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue

“The intake process begins with dismantling her personal space, one mantle at a time.”

  • Charlie Jane Anders

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

On this day, the Crows of the region joined the history of People, and their own history began.

  • John Crowley

Fashion Week: Central Occupied Territory

So the thing about the Death Squads is that their outfits are super cute.

  • Jason Baltazar

All Rights Reserved

Every word is Trademarked™, Restricted® or Copyrighted©. Why was this something to celebrate?

  • Gregory Scott Katsoulis

Álvaro

2017 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

  • Gina Balibrera

Ghostface Aunty

Folks see him like a light in the dark. He a white egg in a carton of brown!

  • Michael D. Copperman

Vicious Breeds

I just don’t happen to think men are as good as dogs, because I’m not fucking crazy.

  • Liv Stratman

Berlin I

Translated from the German by Amanda DeMarco

  • Michael Braunschweig

Trumpeteers

2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

  • Mikayla Ávila Vilá

The Siege

I asked my husband to let the woman go.

  • Shruti Swamy

Announcing the 2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Announcing 2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner, Mikayla Ávila Vilá.

  • Boston Review

A Modern Marriage

A debut short story by an emerging Nigerian writer. Winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

  • Grace Oluseyi

The Visigoths

Zoloft and Paxil and Prozac. Daily pills to save us from defeat.

  • Olivia Clare

The Wheel

A missed rendezvous, a red-eye to Hong Kong . . .

  • Samantha Leese

Cheapest Solutions

Sure, we weren’t alone. We had neighbors a couple of miles down the road . . .

  • Dini Parayitam
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