Short Fiction

So dangerously fast was the troika, they made a law that the horses had to wear bells to warn of their approach ...

To savor each day, to soak in all the beauty that surrounds us, from the minute to the mountainous...is there any higher calling?

A project, a paper, an experiment: they have a particular and finite purpose, a beginning and an end. However, people -- and justice -- should be more than that...

This is where you find the words, the truth, the glory...

The shadowy recesses of the curtains, the soft sound of steps upon the wooden dais, the splendor of the lights...theater! Nothing like it!

"...adjective: related or joined in spirit..."

Marshall J. Pierce is an author, producer and songwriter living in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in newspapers, online magazines, literary mags, tv commercials, corporate videos, LitQuake, box packaging, his Mom's Facebook page, radio theatre and countless emails.

There are always clues -- but the mystery surrounding a murder may have only a few of them that are apparent...

Jeremy has no choice -- he must go to Africa and hunt a certain rhino if he wants to be rid of his affliction...

The best flavors are the ones you can taste from your heart out...

Bill Schwarz is a writer, designer, and engineer from Austin, Texas.

Unseen danger floats all around you. Are you prepared? A simple and economical solution is available to keep you and your loved ones safe.

Looking for Mr. Right -- or should we say Mr. Night? Dress your best and accentuate those fangs!

We all start out in the dark, barely able to look around and see what we've got stored in there...

It didn't matter that Skip didn't want to believe ... he was a man who had no choice in the event.

Living can be hard work even at the best of times, but a time comes when the effort of staying alive makes one long for retirement ...

You think you're asleep, but you're not. You think you're dead, but you're not. You think you can escape, but ...

That cold and creepy voice you hear bouncing off the canyon walls? It's yours...

Yes, that is.

The Great Bear is all about justice -- but not so much on "learning curves."

Love doesn't just show up and suddenly everything is Happily Ever After. There's always one more quest, one more question, one more challenge ... does that mean that in the end, Love isn't worth it?

Let's take some time for culture. This way to the Museum of Muscle and Money...

Having paid Charon his price for crossing the River Styx, Jordan must now find Eliot -- in all the dark nothingness of Hades ...

Now was the time when a grandmother's ghost should have whispered that air circulation is important, along with the paper bags ... but who listens to grandmothers any more, whether it's about green tomatoes -- or money?

A wish has been granted, but as with all wishes made in rage, things have gone horribly wrong.

They say that if you don't dream, you go crazy. And yet here's a case where you dream and you think you're going crazy. Is it a lose-lose scenario, or a win-win? Or just crazy-crazy?

Kate Alexander-Kirk drinks copious amounts of tea as she dreams up weird and wonderful stories that she one day hopes to realize. And she does it all donning her Top-Hat at a jaunty angle. Most recently her work has appeared in Spry Literary Journal, Visceral Uterus and Boy Slut.

Pale is a city of everlasting rain, a city of tragedy, a city groaning under the weight of its own curse. Jordan Mars is about to find yet another level of pain paving Pale's streets.

Who is that clever, handsome, rich -- and don't forget HOTT chappie over there? Yes, that one -- the one watching himself in the reflections of the window...

And there's a penalty for calling in an order by using your phone as a phone ...