Short Fiction

Remember that old song, "In Heaven There Is No Beer?"

Justin is caught between life and death, Trish is trying to decide if spending the night had been a mistake. Life is never simple and death rarely comes with instructions...

One in prison, but one who suffers for the crime committed...

Kim Burkhalter has lived in Wisconsin for most of his life. Most of his writing has been in a high school and a college creative writing magazine. He once got an award at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, WI for a story called "White Dragon." He has also finished a novel, "The Dream Machine."

Peter Barbour grew up in Philadelphia, PA. He is an avid fisherman, bicyclist, and canoer. His hobbies include drawing and carving wood. He is a retired physician, who practiced Neurology in Allentown, PA, where he still resides. He is married and has three children, and four grandchildren. He has always loved telling stories.

Nick Gerrard is originally from Birmingham but now living in Olomouc where he writes, teaches a little, and in between looks after his son, Joe. He edits and designs Jotters United Lit-zine. Nick has been at one time or another a chef, activist, union organiser, punk rocker, teacher, traveler and eco-lodge owner in Malawi and Czech.

A heart that learns mercy can make amends. A hand that reaches out can be touched. Ideally, that is...

Let this year be one of thought...

A feisty woman who doesn't expect much from the holidays is about to be surprised...

The farther Mankind travels into space, the more likely it is that it's five o'clock somewhere...

Aren't you glad Halloween is over?

More than one Charlie lives in a nursing home, but they see the same place in different ways...

Are your shivering movements heard? Your breath? Your pounding heart?

"Shaping valleys that sing with the force of winds, human beings, the sun, the bright shine of nature, the gentle genetic simplicity of the relationship between Noah and his animals..."

All the troubles in the world -- where do they come from, and whom should we blame?

A season changes, and suddenly, nothing that was will ever be perceived the same way again...

The end of the season and isn't it time to let it go peacefully?

How Crow and Raven learned the difference between black and white...

Does this one arrive when you least expect it? Or is it always nearby...

"I have lived a life filled with buoyant ecstasy and hope." -- Abigail George

Gayle Jansen Beede is the author of a collection of poems called "You Can Practically See Cattle Dancing," and a children's book, "Audrey to Zoe: An Alphabet of Critters." Some of her work has appeared in Cumberland Poetry Review, Karamu, Louisiana Literature, Negative Capability, Poet & Critic, Zone 3. She lives a stone's throw from San Francisco.

Aunt Marty's niece Lacy doesn't have her aunt's gift for hearing the voices of the deceased. And she doesn't want it. The magic coins have a different plan for Lacy.

Anything you say or don't say can and will be used against you...

A moment to make sense of the mysteries of the past -- how long to understand our future?

Did you see or did you miss the Great Eclipse of August 2017? Will your grandchildren remember where you were that day?

Go ahead, look him up on Wikipedia...

Patti Santucci holds an AA degree and has been published in "RePlay Magazine," "American River Review" and "Literally Stories." She recently won first place in Community College Humanities Association (Pacific Northwest Division) for her creative non-fiction work. She lives in California with one cat, one dog and one husband.

They say that when art is really good, the audience simply can't look away...

Trying to figure out what went wrong won't change the past, but what about the present?

Travel back in time fifty years and so much is different -- and so much the same...