Category Fiction

SAZHAAK

SAZHAAKby J. Herrera Kamin At night the rats scurry under the floorboards, above the rafters and behind the peeling plaster. Little claws click-click-clicking against our skulls. I can see them. Knots of darkness clothed in mangy fur. Black marble eyes.…

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MACK’S MORALITY

MACK’S MORALITY by Barry Yedvobnick “Mack, I’m a dead man. They’ve got my DNA. I’m gonna get ID’d for sure.” Mackenzie awoke instantaneously in the bar and recalled it was where she met Ethan, whenever he needed to talk. Nobody…

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TO THE BRIM

TO THE BRIM by Logan McConnell For the last delivery on Dot’s mail route, she was surprised to find, at the bottom of her mailbag, a letter addressed to the abandoned house at the end of Forrest Lane. Her day…

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PECKING ORDER

PECKING ORDERby Megan Kiekel Anderson They are bullying the poor gold-laced Polish again. The hen has few feathers left on her once resplendent head; the fan of plumage that haloed her beak reduced to scabs crusted dark brown against her…

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PAPILLON

PAPILLON by Antonia Rachel Ward You step through the gates of the fairground, your cheeks aglow with warmth from the torches that line your way. Lowther’s Circus and Amusements, proclaims the sign that arches above your head, in elaborate, foot-tall…

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FAMILY CURSE

FAMILY CURSEby Anne Marie Lutz “I only missed one call, Dad.” I’d been swamped yesterday with the new implementation. It had been 10 pm before I realized I’d missed the daily call, and by then Dad must have been asleep.…

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KILLDEER

KILLDEERby Ted Ludzik The tires on the rental car crackled over the shoulder’s gravel. Ellen killed the engine. The silence laid as wide as the surrounding Saskatchewan plains. The skyline was a blazing blue, broken by long bone-white clouds. The…

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