Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Fiction.
The Zax
I don’t know how long it’d been since they’d stopped chasing me. Not that it mattered, running is all I know anymore. I can’t stop now. They’ve broken me. They changed me. My mind is- wrong somehow. I have trouble focusing on any particular idea. The one thing I remember clearly is a picture book Mom used to read me, The Zax by Dr. Seuss.
By K. Rhen Hunt3 years ago in Fiction
Every Breath
I get anxious every time she goes to sleep. Every mother does, and maybe has for millennia. They look so peaceful as they lay there, still smudged with your blood, mucous and placenta behind their ears. I wiped most of it away, but for some reason I couldn’t bring myself to complete the task. A bit of what’s inside me, marking her. Protecting her, as I have for the last nine months.
By Michael S Rogers3 years ago in Fiction
Battletech: The Arano Restoration
"I am Kamea Arano, High Lady of the Aurigan Reach, Protector of Coromodir and the Sword of Restoration. But I am not a hero, no matter what the stories say. A hero would have sacrificed more, compromised less. A hero would have done better.
By Jonathan Blackbow3 years ago in Fiction
The Superior Inferior
Nora's eyes flew open and she began to violently cough. The scent of burning hair and flesh already filling her nostrils, her lungs fighting to cope with the inhalation of ash. Extermination of The Inferior was off to an early start today. She sat up and wiped bloody mucus from her mouth and grabbed a nearby glass of water. It was full of ash as well, but ashes to ashes, dust to dust; she needed a drink. This was life now, and her rations were running dry.
By Sage River Black3 years ago in Fiction
The Aftermath
Jake was alone, had no clue who was on his side and didn’t know who to trust, if anybody. The one thing he did know was he had to get back to Daisy and Caroline, and that had become his only concern. Ignorant of the challenges that lay before him, he would face them all head on if that’s what it took to get his family back together.
By Jackson Howl3 years ago in Fiction
Maria was a Nurse
Maria was a nurse in an ancient hospital situated in the middle of Phoenix, one of the 400 small nation-states that made up the geo-political world. Nurses in the 20th century would easily recognize Maria’s work: fluorescent lights, blue scrubs, lemon-scented floor cleaner. Even the treatments and medicines were similar. As if medical science had taken a break for two centuries while the world heaved and shifted with wars, famines and great migrations of people.
By Justin Streight3 years ago in Fiction
Elocution Day
Faith died and I gave up. A coconut fell on her head in Hawaii when we were on vacation and Faith died and I gave up. I gave up because it had taken me so long to give in to love and Faith and then she died and it felt like God no longer existed so I gave up.
By Augustus Britton3 years ago in Fiction