"The James Webb Telescope discovered something terrifying in deep space" by Unanimous
I work for NASA as an astronomer, and there are certain things we keep hidden from the public. No, the Earth isn't flat, and aliens don't...
Fourth of July, by Emily Clemente
We are hungry, so hungry we could eat the whole world. Everything smells like ketchup. We could eat the trees, we could eat the sun. The...
Roadkill Bill, by Jennifer Lai
Shotgun in hand, I inch toward the contorted deer. Behind me, breath reeking of whiskey, Pa hisses, “It’s suffering, boy. Put it out of...
Fiction-Writer's Imagination!
The Empress President is back, this time with a short story that would fall under the contemporary fiction genre if it weren't...
THE TURNING POINT by Maggie Nerz Iribarne
In that dreary mid-March, mid-semester time, Larry found it hard to get up. Long after his wife, Cheryl, left the house for her student...
JOAN AND THE CLONES by Ruby Allen-Short
In the beginning, there were only seven of her. Perfect reproductions, each and every one, from the proud, particular curve of her nose...
Breaking Ball, by Michael Snyder
There’s this ball, pink-seamed and spinning fast, its coordinates locked on the northern perimeter of my left eye socket. All the proof I...
We All Learn from Your Beauty, by E.S. Dial
I “We get in, get the tree, get out,” says Dad. “Got it?” Football begins in less than two hours; my family is on the clock. II Marc...
They Swim in Circles
Last summer, the lady who lived in the trailer home next door went a little crazy. And she let the place go. Didn’t take out her trash....
Nowhere, by Rory Say
He only sees her sometimes. Maybe once or twice a year, if that, and only then when he’s caught off guard. When, preoccupied with...
