Short Fiction

Maybe you don't need someone else to tell you your destination...

What is it that takes us from suspicion to curiosity...?

Cross a threshold once...

Exactly.

Esther Mubawa is a Zimbabwe woman, single mother. She lives and works in Cape Town as a maid. When she has time, she goes for walks on the beach, reads, and writes about her life and the lives of other Shona women. Twitter: @EMubawa

Connections during lockdown -- so important, even small ones...

"...I know what you're made of..."

Why doesn't society teach us when to run?

And like dust mites, they are everywhere...

Always and never...

Pathik Mitra is a young passionate storyteller who wants to impact people and their lives through his art.

Don't judge by the skin -- look at the heart instead...

Graduated as a mathematician but a full-time professional entertainer most of his adult life, Harlan's repeated attempts to escape the entertainment industry have brought work as a librarian, physics teacher, syndicated newspaper columnist, and city planner. Harlan divides his time between Australia and Bhutan.

Who was she? Who will she become?

He knew that shadow well...

Glenn Dungan is currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. He exists within a Venn-diagram of urban design, sociology, and good stories. When not obsessing about one of those three, he can be found at a park drinking black coffee and listening to podcasts about murder.

When not working on her essays, short stories, and novel-in-progress, Victoria and her husband are riding their Vespas, exploring the wine regions of California, befriending dogs, and raising insect assassins -- also known as praying mantises.

Ranjit Kulkarni is a writer of short stories, articles, and novels. He lives in Bangalore, India.

They say that time goes by faster as we get older...what if it isn't age at all?

We can never know what impact our actions will have on the future...

Timothy B. Barner grew up in upstate NY and now lives in Southwest Ohio with his two sons. He publishes novels when he can, but more often writes short stories, plays, and musings from an interesting life. He hopes, of course, that others find his life interesting as well.

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Skylar Ruprecht has a B.A. in philosophy from the College of Wooster and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He is currently an attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Heavy metal lover and cricket tragic, D.A. Cairns lives on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia where he works as a freelance writer.

What if mercy is more powerful than punishment?