Short Fiction

Harrison Kim lives in Victoria, Canada with his editor and wife Sera. He worked 29 years as a teacher at a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, and has temporarily lived as a homeless person, commuting to work from his hammock on Burnaby Mountain near Vancouver, Canada, back when it was much safer and less common.

Ever wonder how someone can prove who they really are?

Such a versatile vegetable...!

For better or for worse?

Doesn't sound all that far-fetched anymore...

Alex Z. Salinas lives in San Antonio, Texas. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as Every Day Fiction, Mystery Tribune, Red Fez, Points in Case, Nanoism, escarp, 101 Words, 101 Fiction, 121 Words, and 365tomorrows. He serves as poetry editor for the San Antonio Review.

Well, what are you supposed to do? Lie there and pretend you've already passed on?

We all knew that there was danger in that place...

Ah, the miracle of modern medicine!

R.F. Gonzalez was born in a small town in the impoverished country of Nicaragua. When he was young, he lived in Europe. When he grew up, he moved to the USA where he now does work as an investor and writing professor. One day he will write about these adventures.

Has it really been eighteen years?

And when there is nothing left to impoverish, what then?...

Honesty? Compassion? Whatever happened to those?

Tim Miller would like to be considered an emerging writer, but alas, he is afraid of swamps. He lives in San Marcos, CA with his wife and three daughters, all of whom own Chicago Bears clothing.

His mother had told him long ago not to talk to strangers...

Some things you just can't overlook...

Through whose eyes do you see what is shown you?

Climate change ...

Tim Frank is an upcoming writer specialising in the comic and the surreal. He has written a semi-autobiographical novel, 'Devil in my Veins', and is currently writing a sci-fi thriller novel.

Maybe you remember this, too...

Ah, the curse of the second-hand lifestyle...

Tiffany Williams lives in Oxford, England. She writes short stories; her shortest ever was 10 words. When she is not writing, she enjoys reading other writers

Mmmm...

Larry Borger, internationally unknown and unacclaimed writer, resides in the high-desert country of Southern Arizona along the Mexico border. Retired since 2003, Larry sings, plays guitar, golfs, builds stuff, and loves his family. Oh yes, Larry occasionally writes, too.

Epic, that's what it was -- truly epic...well, sorta epic...

Jake Zawlacki is currently pursuing an obscure master's degree at Stanford University. He has been published in The Citron Review, Riggwelter, Eunoia Review, Gravel, Litro and many others.

Is this what it will come to?

Mimi only has a father because her mother died when Mimi was a toddler. Her friend, Casey, has two fathers. The kindergarten class is having a special evening celebration for Mother's Day...

It should all be as clean as mathematics: numbers, equations, solutions...