Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Fiction.
Submerged
Talia was slow to emerge from the water, as always. Switching from her regulator to her snorkel, it was her custom to spend a few minutes on the surface looking and listening for whoever might be nearby. Fishermen, scavengers, thieves- she’d encountered each, and very few showed a disinterest in what she hauled up from the deep. Hundreds of feet above Yiu Wa Street in Causeway Bay, she quietly unfastened the camouflaged tarp from her skiff and placed her gear onboard. Unmooring the boat from a railing on the thirtieth floor of the building, she remembered adolescent evenings at the popular boba café on the other side of that same banister. She could still vividly recall standing at that railing, sometimes looking down at the athletic complex far beneath to watch boys play football, and other times simply looking at the vast and various glows of the city, wondering what profound future the world had in store for her.
By Ricky Lindwall5 years ago in Fiction
From the Source of our Soul
Amun’s fingers clawed on the sandy floor. The laborer’s bare feet scrambled against stone as he tried to haul himself over the edge of the pit. Below him the inky chasm shimmered as it slowly filled with boiling tar—the latest trap threatening to claim his life and leave him entombed in this place along with the rest of his cohort.
By Alexander Eby5 years ago in Fiction
Heart-Shaped Locket
One face, young and unafraid. His smile, as pure as the white butter he liked on his toast, as hopeful as a kitten at a pet store. His hair, as dark as the nighttime skies above Manhattan. His eyes, as silvery as the spoon he once turned into a boomerang, much to the grievances of his parents, as sparkling as the mineral water he detested.
By Lily Oxford5 years ago in Fiction
Jolt
The sign in front of the high school was so weathered she could no longer make out the words. Pipevine had reached up to cover it further. There was a large cougar in mid-jump emblazoned on one side, looking as if it were trying to escape the vine’s stranglehold. She looked up into the cougar’s enraged eyes as she crept past. Whatever this place had been called before, no one would remember it now.
By Conquering Valhalla5 years ago in Fiction
Beat
Earth had become a legend of a legend, a consumption of time forgotten to the dementia of Humanity. On the last day of light, the Human Race left the Milky Way and with the crumble of its Galaxy, gave hope and chance into the abyssal void. The apocalypse of the Universe was silent, the Degenerate Era, the death of starlight. Refuge was not so easily offered by Mother Nature, only the strong survived what came, the uprising of the singularities took tribute from the old and young, trading passage and respite for those that did what needed to be done.
By Will Parsons5 years ago in Fiction
The Great Silencing
I always knew I was born for this, but I never knew the price I’d pay. Before the Great Silencing, when things were “normal”, I despised it all. Society, the rat race, narcissism and social media, it all led to this. No one was paying attention…except for people like me; those constantly plagued with nagging intuitive feelings and dreams of total societal collapse, which clearly manifested, in spite of everyone rolling their eyes at what they thought were conspiracy theories or paranoia at the time.
By Tess Bergin5 years ago in Fiction
Pushups in the Rain
“Eat mud, Donaldson!” The other recruits and I were in the middle of morning PT. Every day, it seems, the drill instructors find some new way to make our training more hellish. Today it was pushups and situps in the rain, in the mud, no doubt followed by a morning run in the rain and the mud… all before breakfast. Not that I was especially looking forward to breakfast anyway. Our cook never seemed to graduate beyond mud pies.
By Daniel Schwartz5 years ago in Fiction
