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The Last Supper. Runner-Up in You Had to Be There. Top Story - May 2026.
Ruth asked if I wanted to go spelunking, and she meant going back to the house we had lived in the past year to explore it, but we were worried about bats and ceilings caving in, so it sounded pretty accurate. We still lived in the same city in new summer apartments with degrees on paper and jobs that weren’t what we thought our internships would net us, and very little money for gas, so we walked most places, and our thighs got sticky like we had spilled a can of Coke on our laps. The house had been condemned by the city, but it still looked the same because we had been the ones to put boards over the windows after that one time a homeless man broke in, and the landlord never responded to our emails, so Nick took some wood he found on the side of a construction site and nail-gunned them to the windows. The nail gun was from the props department, and he borrowed it casually for that project and a few others. Most of senior year, he was high on something, but he was an actor, not a props guy, and those types could afford to be more far gone. Ruth was a costumer, and she had lots of talent for draping things, like a scarf, to make us look like bandits when we entered the house through the same boarded-up window. The thing about condemned houses is that the wood is failing, much like the foundation, and we pried the handiwork away easily, almost like foil from a Pringles can, and slid in noisily, our footsteps crunching leaves, like chips, breaking, and entering.
By Cali Loria5 months ago in Fiction
Gallery 9. Top Story - May 2026.
Some confessions are preserved forever. 📜🕰️📜🕰️📜🕰️📜🕰️📜🕰️ Evelyn Gomez was, by all accounts, the most meticulous of museum curators. Emotions were held firmly in check. Her mother's dementia had depleted an entire store of memory.
By Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin5 months ago in Fiction
Hourglass: A Tale of Anxiety Part 4. Top Story - May 2026. Content Warning.
“Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.” — Sonia Ricotti.This story is one of many in 🎗A Mental Health Awareness Month initiative🎗 held by Fictionry.com Please join us: https://www.fictionry.com/events/mental-health-awareness-2026
By Rain Dayze5 months ago in Fiction
Spineless spine. Top Story - May 2026.
I don’t know how, and I don’t know when, but I’ve pinched something in my spine, and now I can’t sleep. I’m lying here at seven in the morning after a night shift, and my spine burns and pulses. It wants out. I rolled to the other side, and it picked up the pace. Now it pulses, burns, and cracks. It doesn’t like me. It doesn’t want to be with me. It wants to leave.
By George Roast5 months ago in Fiction
Ruby Reads. Top Story - May 2026.
🎶I wanna love you…and treat you right🎶 Sorry, but I just can’t stop singing. I am beyond excited because my only son just did something amazing. He published his first book. I truly can’t express enough how proud I am of him. When my son, Joe was a little boy I used to make him and my oldest daughter, Rudy bring home books from both the city and school library and have them read them to the whole family every night before bed.
By Joe Patterson6 months ago in Fiction
Tales (Masie Adams). Top Story - May 2026.
Now you know I’m not one to tell tales, but you would not believe what I saw at the Piggly Wiggly this morning. Yes ma’am, I am telling you the gospel truth and no lies. It was Masie Adams, back in town from who knows where, and let me tell you, she was a sight. Thank goodness her mama passed before she lived to see her daughter all trolloped up like a truck stop hooker in broad daylight. It couldn’t’ve been past ten in the morning, and she was wearing these sky-high stripper heels, no pantyhose, and a dress that like to been painted on her, cut down to here and up to there. And if she had a slick of lipstick on, she had the entire Estee Lauder counter on her face. That brassy hair was teased up higher than a nine-neck giraffe, and all she had in her cart was eggs, butter, and beer. It just goes to show . . . and she comes from such good people. I reckon Mary Elizabeth’s going to have to lock up her husband. He never could stay away from Masie.
By Harper Lewis 5 months ago in Fiction
Diary of a Death Witch. Top Story - May 2026.
I’ve always had a feeling of being … off. I was always too wild, too imaginative, lost in a daydream. I was too comforted and attracted to the dark. I felt odd in the normal world. I felt uncomfortable in the light. I’ve never really been a girl of flowers and pastels.
By Leah Suzanne Dewey6 months ago in Fiction
