Short Story
Across The Merderet. Runner-Up in Parallel Lives Challenge.
I sped off to the recruiting post in Galena. Even though my birth certificate at St. Michaels said that Joseph F. Higgins was Born 1927 not 1926 like I told the recruiter, I wasn’t going to let that one year stop me. Hell or high water I was going to be a paratrooper.
By Matthew J. Fromm11 months ago in Fiction
The Lost City Beneath the Sea
The Lost City Beneath the Sea For thousands of years, people have spoken of a city more beautiful, more powerful, and more advanced than any that came after it — Atlantis. A kingdom said to have vanished beneath the waves in a single day and night. Was it real, or only a legend?
By Shohel Rana11 months ago in Fiction
The World 100 Million Years Ago
Imagine standing on Earth 100 million years ago. The world was almost unrecognizable. There were no humans, no cities, no continents shaped the way we see them now. The air was thicker, the temperature much warmer, and the planet was alive with creatures so large and strange that today they feel almost mythical.
By Shohel Rana11 months ago in Fiction
The Quiet that Remembers. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
Where the River Splits... Some nights, Lena dreams she is two women standing in the same rain. One stands at the kitchen sink, wrists submerged in cloudy dishwater, eyes fixed on the window as the sky turns the color of bruised fruit. Her wedding ring glints each time she moves.
By Ana Carter11 months ago in Fiction
Soul Split
I look down at his head in my lap, tears running down my face. I never thought he could be hurt. I never imagined my life without him, not since the day we met. I run my fingers through his curly hair the way he always liked. My arm shakes as I feel how cold he is.
By Phoenixica2411 months ago in Fiction
Into The Void. Top Story - October 2025.
Sera glanced out the window of the spaceship. Stars and planets littered the area around her. It was beautiful… but also a sight she saw every single day. The vast expanse of space was now their home. Ever since Earth became inhospitable, they'd been floating aimlessly through the void. It had been years, and there was still no sign of anywhere to set down roots—just humanity's last hope drifting on four massive ships.
By Emilie Turner11 months ago in Fiction
Contemporaneous Cognates. Top Story - October 2025.
In the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, the United States………in the first dimension Sarah looked in the mirror, leaned closer and with a smooth, clean handkerchief carefully smudged the immaculately applied red lipstick staining her lips. She took a moment to appreciate their glorious perfection, all too recently plumped by the top local plastic surgeon. This, along with all the other means the surgeon had employed to guarantee facial perfection, had cost a handsome penny, but it had been well worth the expense. What was this life worth if you couldn’t attain perfection and enjoy such things at thirty-two? After all, it wouldn’t be long before she had to face the dreaded middle age years, so she needed to be sure she approached them in excellent condition.
By Cindy Calder11 months ago in Fiction
