Fiction

Fiction | Short Story
The Americanization of Kambili

I hissed the words at her. “This, your America, it will kill you.”

Nov 4, 2022
Fiction | Short Story
Model Home

Here’s the truth. We live in a model home in a prestigious village in a master-planned city. Beyond those borders, things aren’t so rosy.

Oct 28, 2022
Fiction | Short Story
The Vaughns in the Loft Down the Hall

I never did learn how the Vaughns got their money, but maybe that was part of the appeal—the mystery of it all.

Oct 21, 2022
Fiction | Short Story
The Disappearance of Guy

Guy was released shortly after he was detained. His parents did their best to keep everything quiet. But already the rumors had begun.

Oct 14, 2022
Fiction | Short Story
Dorothy Dancer Has Had Enough

She imagined impaling her husband on the molasses-stained tusk of that elephant. “It should’ve been you,” she said.

Oct 7, 2022
Fiction | In Translation
Clarice

Nothing in my life had assured my blood relationships.

Fiction | Flash
A Lesson

Neither of you knew that your night together would smash everything.

Sep 23, 2022
Fiction | Short Story
The Benefactor

The bills were too thick to conceal in my pocket, so I reached inside my briefs and hid them there.

Sep 16, 2022
Fiction | Short Story
Egg Mother

“I’m staging an intervention,” my husband says. “I miss my wife. I can’t be married to scrambled eggs anymore. You have to see a therapist.”

Sep 9, 2022
Fiction | Short Story
Sunkiller

We wanted to embellish her legend, but now we were only the witnesses of her want.

Sep 2, 2022