When I tell you in the morning just before the sunlight touches the tips and curves of the city, before the water boils for our …
Spontaneous Adventuring by Maya Reber
This story is one of the June Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. He pulled the old map from the …
No Return Without Receipt by Harnidh Kaur
Before you ask me to leave, I need you to return some things I left with you for safekeeping, I don’t want this any more …
Being Slightly in Love with You by Cie Miraflor
It is terrifying this slightness. Being slightly in love with you frightens me terribly. I am not a woman worthy of poetry or songs or Polaroids taken and taped on walls and refrigerator …
CAPITAL LETTERS by Dani Leshgold
I’M COILED AROUND THE TIRES ON YOUR CAR I’M WRAPPED AROUND THE T-SHIRT YOU LEFT IN THE CORNER OF MY ROOM THE BLACK ONE YOU …
Galaxy by Rita Smith
I don’t want to just “date” him. I want to crack open his soul and extract every nightmare, daydream, and aspiration he has ever had. …
Abandoned by Karen Manabat
Tell them I was the perfect storm; I came strong and uninvited. Tell them you hid from my rain, And prayed for me to be …
In Light of You by Cie Miraflor
And the pages of old books Clipped between your frosty fingertips Each leaf yellow and crisp Used and brittle They reminded me of leaves in …
The Girl with the Red Scarf by Leah Harter
This is one of the February Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. Scarlett was perhaps the most terrifying person …