Psychological
Glitter
Alan awoke, e ntombed in a heap of twisted and crushed metal, shattered glass, and leaking fluids. He felt no pain and assumed nothing in his body was broken. The only movable things were his eyelids and his lips; everything else- legs, arms, hands, neck- was shackled securely in place. The moon and stars were his only sources of light, but they offered no warmth or solace. Bitter cold forced its way into Alan’s makeshift tomb, causing his fingers and toes to tingle and begin to go numb. All he could do was lie there and unreasonably hope that someone would come to his rescue.
By Mark Gagnon2 months ago in Fiction
The Seventh Door
You come to the house because a stranger has told you that one of its doors will be open. You have no reason to trust him, and yet you find yourself following his instructions as though you had been given them before. You have already forgotten his face. What remains is his voice, with its strange certainty, and the impression that he had been waiting for you. Below, the party goes on from room to room, with laughter, music, glasses raised in the air, voices speaking over one another. You climb the stairs, and the sounds below grow fainter, although you know the people are still there.
By Nolan Reed2 months ago in Fiction
The Rocking Chair Rocked Back and Forth. Winner in Out of Season Challenge. Top Story - September 2026.
I can’t remember if I told you, but I was kind of raised by my great aunt Helena. I had parents that loved and cared about me; they wanted to give me a life they didn’t have growing up which meant sacrificing some of their time for day jobs. This meant that they weren’t about to pass up free day care.
By Amos Glade2 months ago in Fiction
The Funnel of Your Being. Top Story - September 2026.
There’s nothing worse than a city with a black eye. Hey, you! Wake up! You might think this is all sweet. It ain’t all good. There’s no love, luck, and lollipops in these streets. You see that blood-stained ground? That’s the result of another slain Delawarean in these Wilmington streets. If you see dozens of candles burning all around, it’s not out of festivity, but celebration of a four-year-old caught in the crosshairs of rival gang violence.
By Sky Saunders2 months ago in Fiction
Mary & Mary &. Honorable Mention in You Are Here Challenge.
You can hear Leonardo pacing around his nursery, murmuring to himself. You stare, unblinking, because you cannot blink, at the speckled ceiling above and pretend that you can trace his footsteps by sound alone.
By Kera Hollow2 months ago in Fiction
The Big Wobble. Top Story - September 2026.
“Well, that’s something you don’t see every day,” said Alex to his empty Jeep. Of course it should be shocking, but since the Big Wobble, nothing surprised him. He had learned to expect the unexpected. Polar ice caps breaking apart into massive icebergs, blizzards in the rain forests of Brazil, the east and west coasts of North and South America slowly returning to the ocean floor, volcanoes erupting in people’s backyards. It’s all considered normal now. So, what caused the world to change?
By Mark Gagnon2 months ago in Fiction
