Fiction – Year VI – Number 49 – June 2021

            The cold metal table pressed into my back, and the cork, water-stained, ceiling loomed over me. A lightbulb dangled from a tarnished-brown chain. The dim light misted through the room, emitting a faint,...

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 Smiths sat across the small, iron-legged table from one another, and Marilyn’s eyes were heavily focused on the smudged glass topper. She turned her gazed to the partially open sliding door that led...

                Kimi bit her lip and did her level best not to jump at the sound of something slamming against the counter behind her.   “You’re not welcome here!” said a deep and angry voice...

A Pretty Face By Anna Fritze Because it was her first day out for a while, she wore her favorite neon purple dress. They let her pick it out, surprisingly. She wanted to be noticed as...

It was the pink velvet dress. Evelyn held it up against her body slowly dancing with it while trying to avoid tripping over the boxes that filled her new apartment. “It was this dress,”...

Characters:             Julia Adalwolfa is the daughter of German architects who moved to the United States of America when she was three years old. She has had trouble making friends and blending in, especially with...

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...

Drawn by the prospect of publication, writers gathered at the conference in Malibu. A bespectacled woman, her gray hair uniformly curled under at the edges, stood and read from her work. “The mother left...

“Stop pressing all the god damn buttons, that’s not going to get us out of here any sooner.” said Richard. “I can’t help it; you know I hate enclosed spaces.” said Jamie. I wish we...