Short Fiction

If you've listened to Warren Borman tell a story before, you know what to expect ... well, at least you think you do ...

It was a battle, and it was love ...

He was a "go get it" kind of guy, and nothing would stand in his way to get what he wanted ...

Money is hard to come by when the recession comes home with you at the end of your job, but you better dole out the remaining pennies you have wisely ...

What keeps the bricks and stones in place isn't just mortar; what makes the lights shine and the machinery hum isn't just electricity. What will you see if you choose to look more closely?

Science and reason can explain much, but which perceives clearly, the mind or the heart, when something has no reason at all?

The wedding is soon, and Henry is anxious about getting married. Diego is about to put a stop to that!

A. Frank Bower took early retirement from mental health work in 2006 to write, study writing and spend time with his wife Carol. He workshopped with Dan Pope and Sari Rosenblatt at CT Wesleyan, but credits his local writers group Poplar Writers -- Geof Fowler, Carol Parker and Lynn Wilcox -- with helping him most. He has published 16 short stories, 4 memoirs and 4 poems to date.

Tense and in Tacoma, both Jack and Beth have only one question in mind ...

From darkness to darkness, one melody, one strange word follows ...

Family can be trying even during the best of times, but this one is pulled in so many directions that it's very hard for them all to pull together ...

The kitchen crew are out of their depth when it comes to water flooding the big room -- and they don't know all the secrets the kitchen hides, either ...

You have it all, you can get it all, you know it all -- it's about success, in life, in society, in marriage, in work ... in getting out of the office ...

Ben wrote his first poems in Texas where he grew up. He then moved to Berkeley, Boston, Philadelphia and finally Northeast Ohio. Ben's writings fall into three genres: love, nature, and giving voice to his search for his place in the world. The Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a source for his inspiration for poetry, prose and life.

Is it what you learn from a teacher of writing, or does the class show you what you need to learn about yourself?

The usually happy Henry is feeling somewhat worried about his future ...

"Political correctitude," they decided, "means that the pursuit of happiness is mandatory and literal." ... And the only Right you have had better be the far one!

The stage door was almost perfectly an entrance for the doors Lauren found shut in her personal life ...

Laughter, they say, is the best medicine. Will it bring success in business as well? Warren Borman knows the truth ...

Shakespeare has been fired, but the kitchen is not at all the same without him -- in fact it's rather empty ...

If you cannot have freedom, is death better? If you cannot love, should the world change?

Long life, good health ... right up to the day when the phone rings, the cake is done, the darkness begins to fall...

There was only one thing he could think of that might be worse than death ...

Gail Taylor is a new Canadian writer who earned the Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto in 2009 with Honors and completed the writers' program at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Her fiction was a winner in the Random House Canada student contest in 2007, short listed for the Random House prize in 2008, and short listed for the Marina Nemat award in 2009.

The kitchen is in shambles -- exactly what is that wicked Simpson up to?

Rose McCann's essays and fiction have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Slow Trains, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Subtle Tea, Cerebration, Fiction Warehouse, The Plum Ruby Review, Ascent Aspirations, Double Dare Press, Tattoo Highway and many others. She currently teaches American Literature at Cleveland State University.

If only Marji can make it up the hill, this battle might even be worth it -- but a certain dragon-beast has a taste for revenge ...

When you're told something often enough, you can come to believe that what you've been told is true. Unless, of course, you keep the truth steady in your heart ...

Marji is fighting to reach her brother who has fallen into the jungle; can a weary girl keep up the pace she needs to save them both?

The kitchen is closed! What does one do when cooking is forbidden? Why, visit Macy's Housewares, of course!