Short Fiction

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?

With circumstance stacked higher than you can see over, how can you ever find your way?

So many terrible things we could avoid if we could only see the future -- or see clearly into another person's heart...

Kim seems to be anti-social. She isn't. She is using all her energy to hold on...

Award-winning California author and poet, Barbara Link, has had three stories aired on KVPR, a National Public Radio Affiliate. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines and small presses. She also received the Sacramento State University Bazzanella Prize for fiction.

It's always good to plan ahead...

Gary Durbin is a retired serial entrepreneur having founded four software companies. He now writes, hikes, and advises startup companies.

They get into your head, into your blood, and nothing can take them away...

He was her helpmate, her support, and her secret. And no one knew, especially not the constituents.

Ambition -- check. Analytical mind -- check. Determination -- check. Whiskey -- yeah, that, too. Now all they need is the case...

Her life is made up of broken puzzle pieces. But she had a life, and she will remember it...

A rare look from within a lost mind...

Who was the first one? And who -- or what -- will be the last?

All things happen for a reason...

A hacked computer has to be reformatted here. A server has to be taken offline there. People are accustomed to piracy...at least they thing so...

Beate Sigriddaughter lives and writes in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, USA. Her work has received four Pushcart Prize nominations and won four poetry awards.

Yep, this is how it happens...

Charles Chettiar is an Engineer by circumstance and writer by choice, working in Mumbai. He started writing short stories when in college, and is working on his first novel.

Jordan Ramsey is a Professional Writing student and Graduate Assistant in the Southeast Missouri State University Master's program. He graduated with an Undergraduate Degree in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Illinois in 2006. Since then, he has worked as an English Teacher for NOVA Group and Lanier Technical College and a copy editor for The Southern Illinoisan. Jordan plans to graduate from SEMO this May.

Luanne sees a kinship between a dead tree in an abandoned cemetery and her past. She decides to forget what cannot be retrieved and enjoy Jeff, the new love in her life...