Fiction – Year VI – Number 49 – June 2021

O GIGANTE Havia um gigante encerrado entre os muros da cidade. Era a praça central onde ele cochilava, respirando, e o tráfego próximo a ele era interditado devido a inúmeros acidentes automobilísticos decorrentes da respiração...

The First             Jacob looked at his watch. “I better head out; my flight leaves pretty early.” Jacob’s table was the only one still occupied in the mostly empty pub. Allison followed him with her...

            I barely had enough time to see the truck coming.             Crazy what happens to someone when they don’t look both ways. I did it almost religiously when I was younger, but as I...

As they stood for coffee in the ribcage of the airport terminal, he watched his wife pluck an invisible note from the air and tuck it behind her ear. His tonsils caught a sigh....

“Oof!” She sighs in exasperation.  I’m in Belgrade for a visit.  Fadina – I’ve called my mother by her first name since I was a child -- is restless and annoyed.  She walks around the apartment,...

Back then we lived near the center of town, behind the cavernous library. Mom worked in the orange-carpeted children’s room, which meant during the summers she could keep tabs on us during her break...

Cooper’s not a bad boy. According to his dad, Cooper’s theliving manifestation of the motto: Live free or die trying! That’s not how the neighbors see Cooper and his big brother Dylan. They gossip...

Undocumented The U.S. border was only a three-hour-drive from my college town, but the idea of going al otro lado hadn’t occurred to me before Isa invited me to go shopping in Tucson. I’d just...

The Trickery of a Masked Demon by Ren Nightshade I married a masked demon. That's the only way to explain how I married such a man. There's absolutely no other way. If I'm being honest, I...

Terra was a mother of seven; America, Asia, Albert, Annica, Austin, Ani, and Edward. She was a single mother. Terra worked countless jobs to provide for her children but as a result could not...