STORY OF THE WEEK

STORY OF THE WEEK

The Pink Door By Guadalupe Nettel

The Pink Door

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

They Say the Heart Wants

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

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

A New Year’s Gift

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

The Clean-Out

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

Earth in the Time of Billie Holiday

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

The Lucky Bastard

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

Red Leaves

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

Antibes 1926: The Torment of Scott Fitzgerald

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

Narrative 10

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

The Trade-Off

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

Cartoon Art Volume 2024-12

New laughs with fleeting friends, over amazing knowledge, and as guests gingerly approach a party.