Short Fiction

Your heart can be like a closed door, and no one but you will know what's behind it...

Oh, for defiant hearts...

An ancient spirituality presents opportunity and danger for a bishop who sees his legacy in brick and mortar.

James Paxton managed to hitch a ride with the strange time traveler Gregory Larrabee, but now he's trapped in the future, and Larrabee will hardly let him even look into the laboratory. What does this second future hold?

When the extraordinary shows up, will you have the courage to buy it a drink?

Youth is often short-sighted, and what will you see when you're old enough to take the long view..?

What did you come here to see? What has come to see you?...

This future is closer than you think...

It's nice when you can tell good stuff from lousy stuff. You know what to look for in the future. But what future is there when you know, absolutely, that you've had the very best there will ever be?

Virginia Bond was born in Oregon and received a Masters in Ministry in 2001. She is the author of "The Reign", an adult historical fiction novel. She currently resides in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho with her husband Michael.

Jack has made a promise to his grandson that he will make it to his violin recital, but Jack is not known for keeping his promises.

Jim Stebbins has received a sign, a sign that he hears tell him he's the luckiest man on Casino Street. When the fates tell you to take a shot, you have to be willing to wager it all ...

Some say one thing, and some say another, but fact is, if you're doin' what you're supposed to be doin,' you'll be happy...

Michele Host is a lawyer and writer living in New York. Her short story, "The Pitch at the End of the World," was recently published in the ezine, "Prick of the Spindle."

More than100 years have passed since the birth of the famed author of the James Bond stories, Ian Fleming. Fleming has had a tremendous influence on novel-writing and movies, and this week, Staff Writer Lydia Manx pays a tribute to him ...

Well, what did you think caused the Northern Lights?

"Read all about it!" Does that include opinion and fantasy as well as news?

Eating soft tacos has never had such galactic implications. But as Jack is about to discover, once you begin the Taco Belle Experience, anything can happen.

Ricardo Visinho is a writer and the author of "The Star of the Revolution," which was published by the Piker Press in 2017. You can follow Ricardo on Twitter at @RicardoVisinho.

Good thing they didn't have Facebook back then...

The arrangement of furniture is so important. In an office, where things are placed can often affect productivity, and thus, profit. In which position a person is placed affects profits, too ...

Pride and greed and arrogance -- yeah, he can work with that...

To be able to hear another's thought is like being suddenly put inside another's skin ...

If you were marooned on an inaccessible island with just one person, who would that person be? Think again -- would you really want to risk spending the rest of your life with that one?

So different, so far apart, and yet so much the same...

Baby listens to his aunt brag to his mommy, but Mommy has finally had enough...

Was it this? ... No, that's fine. Was it that? ... No, no, that couldn't be it. Didn't I take care of those yesterday? Of course I did ... but ...

What could be more profitable than a catchy line of merchandise and a UFO convention?

In the end, you're never really alone...

A daring rescue back through time! A bear chasing a bare woman! How can people not be shocked by that?