My survival strategy consisted of occupying the grey areas, those interstices which escaped my wife’s tentacles due to their insignificance.
POEM OF THE WEEK
POEM OF THE WEEK
They Say the Heart Wants
By Danusha Laméris
So much stored in the heart’s farthest chambers. And though he’s been dead for decades now, I still feel feel the kiss.
WINTER STORY CONTEST
WINTER STORY CONTEST
Our Winter Contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works. See the Guidelines.
FROM THE LIBRARY
FROM THE LIBRARY
A New Year’s Gift
By Guy de Maupassant
He drew up the balance sheet of his passion, as he drew up every year the balance sheet of circumstances and persons that entered his life.
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The Clean-Out
By Yasmin Adele Majeed
I was going to Williams in the fall. It would be my first time leaving California, and my first time leaving home. I had been counting down the days all summer.
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Earth in the Time of Billie Holiday
By Canisia Lubrin
Combat commanded no serious loyalty from me or Siem, though it did have a first taste, a sound.
FICTION
CLASSICS
FICTION
FICTION
The Lucky Bastard
By N. Jane Kalu
Only now does Grace understand that for her mum, the 1993 election held so much promise that it caused hope to spread like a disease.
CLASSICS
CLASSICS
Red Leaves
By William Faulkner
The smell of their bodies seemed to ebb and flux in the still hot air. They seemed to be musing as one upon something remote, inscrutable.
NONFICTION
NARRATIVE 10
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
Antibes 1926: The Torment of Scott Fitzgerald
By Bill Barich
I hadn’t intended the trip to be a literary pilgrimage, although it evolved into one without my willing it.
NARRATIVE 10
NARRATIVE 10
Narrative 10
By Tom Jenks
If a story succeeds, its words carry the reader home, back to life outside the story, having received gifts along the way.
POETRY
CARTOONS
POETRY
POETRY
The Trade-Off
By Chase Twichell
Strange then, strange now, to choose the white loneliness over the gathering next door, the air scented with lilacs and barbecue, with laughing.
CARTOONS
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2024-12
By Various Artists
New laughs with fleeting friends, over amazing knowledge, and as guests gingerly approach a party.
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