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Category: Story

I Take That Back

By
  • Yoav Ben Yosef
| January 22, 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

It starts like this, the intercom buzzes. Nick, the reluctant pet cat, is faking obliviousness, turning around, padding over to the kitchen for a snack. His tail, way up in the air, offers me a clear view of his hypoallergenic pink behind—shorthand for open scorn. “Guess I’m getting it then,” I say, pushing back with my own attitude.

The Second

By
  • Isobel Granby
| December 16, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

Seconds — those appointed to negotiate and if necessary fill in for the principal fighters in duels conducted by pilots of the Polarin Aerial Fleet — were allowed only one kind of interference: to try and talk combatants out of their folly, or to watch as time ran out and they went to their deaths. This was thought to be a way of reducing the number of frivolous challenges. It had had virtually no effect.

Weekend Getaway

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| November 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

The game gives us a satisfaction that life denies us.—Emanuel Lasker ∞ “Tea or coffee, Sir?” “Coffee. Black. No sugar.” I’m on the phone with a market researcher. I try to picture a pretty girl at the other end of the line, but it isn’t working. All I …

Medb: A Disappearance and Reappearance (excerpt)

By
  • Brigid Burke
| November 13, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

I looked at him through the camera. “You have a secret.” His eyes widened. I continued. “It’s not something…bad…but you think it is…. Something about a confrontation with your father. And it has to do with…a female.”

Repeaters of the String

By
  • James Geddis
| October 28, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

Now is when you are alone, when you have nowhere to be, when promises to the world no longer apply. Nobody knows what happens now except you. This is your own personal history.

The Spiritual Barber

By
  • João Cerqueira
| October 7, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

The Spiritual Barber had opened his salon a year earlier and it had been an instant success. Open Mondays to Saturdays, it attracted an ever-growing number of customers, who thought nothing of waiting several hours until it was their turn to be served. …

Maricón (Part 3)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| May 28, 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

“Sex and God or sex and death.” I repeated his phrase, feeling a slight slur in my speech brought on by the beer on an empty stomach. “Is that all there is?”

Maricón (Part 2)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| May 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

​I was jealous of Pedro’s imaginary lovers and of his vaster sexual experience. Short poems, long poems, quirky poems, I read them in secret when he was out. I didn’t understand them. Poem after poem, sounding much alike, revealed the charms of some new image of his desire, even as he prayed for some kind of deliverance from his too, too solid flesh…

Maricón (Part 1)

Explicit By
  • John Davis
| May 14, 2020 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Explicit, Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

I felt that many kinds of patterns, of ancient origins, had been stamped onto our writhing, wrestling, male flesh, and that we had entered this forbidden zone many times before…

A Demon’s Escape (Based on a True Story)

By
  • Stephanie Williams
| April 20, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Whether I chose to feel my emotions fully, or experience the depth of them — that wasn’t up to me. That was up to God, or Satan, or whatever it was that controlled me.

Transparency is the Only Shield against Disaster (Parts 6–7)

By
  • Brian George
| April 10, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

Has the Shadow become more user-friendly? No. Whether now or 2,000 or 10,000 years ago, the shared identity of the Shadow and the Guide has always presented itself in the form of an ultimatum, which we must torture our minds and bodies to interpret.

Transparency is the Only Shield against Disaster (Parts 3–5)

By
  • Brian George
| April 4, 2020 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Story

That our world has already ended, of this we may be certain. But is it the end of “a world” or of “the world”? It is reassuring that the prophets of world destruction have proven almost 100% wrong—and yet…

Daniel’s Dream

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| December 4, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

That room is gone. Or rather, the room is still there, but what’s in it now is so different from what was in it before that the room itself seems transformed. It holds a vast model of the world we live in, built to scale and rendered in exquisite detail…

Tales of a Venezuelan ExpatTales of a Venezuelan Expat: Dispatch #2 (Disorder and Progress)

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| July 23, 2019 Filed Under:
Tales of a Venezuelan Expat:
Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

Note: The following takes place between October 2018 and January 2019. I’m not in control. I’m trusting the currents to guide my ship to safe ports, trusting the process, letting go. I’m learning along the way. The biggest lesson so far has been how to …

Steady Sleeper

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| June 26, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

I look for my White Lily, but it’s gone. When I look up again, the girl, too, is gone. I’m on my own again. I wonder if I imagined her. Or maybe she imagined me, and I’m the one who’s gone.

See What You Think About This

By
  • John Fellenor
| June 19, 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Story

See What You Think About This is not only an invitation to read, but a beckoning. It’s a lure to peek behind the curtain, and dares you to see if you can see what the author intended.

See What You Think About ThisXIII — You must listen intently to the sound in your ears. It’s a carrier signal.

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 17, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

You must listen intently to the sound in your ears. It’s a carrier signal. The message is layered into it.

See What You Think About ThisXV — Yes. It was the Werewolf

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 16, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Yes. It was the Werewolf, he said. I ask him what happened.

See What You Think About ThisXVII — How much further are we going?

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 15, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

How much further are we going? She isn’t really asking me. Just thinking aloud.

See What You Think About ThisXVI — There was a boy once upon a time

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 14, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

There was a boy once upon a time who lived in a small village with his mother, this father, and his sister.

See What You Think About ThisXIV — This man lived once in a fairly clean house

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 13, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

So this man lived once in a fairly clean house, up along a good road. A good neighbourhood. This was the man I told you about.

See What You Think About ThisXVIII — Where did those men go?

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 12, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Where did those men go? What men? He says he didn’t notice; had his eyes closed listening to some music the barman had put on.

See What You Think About ThisXVII — The music fades out

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 11, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Fade out. The music fades out. I say you’re a strange girl. She doesn’t reply immediately so I stay: switch channels.

See What You Think About ThisXVI — Three black bags lay on the table

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Three black bags lay on the table and the telephone was ringing in the back. That’s where it was.

See What You Think About ThisXV — So in this photograph is a boy and a girl

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

So in this photograph are a boy and a girl. The boys sits on the ground to the left and the girl lies on the ground to the right.

See What You Think About ThisXIV — The point about the Werewolf is this

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

The point about the Werewolf is this: a popular conversation about categories of things.

See What You Think About ThisXIII — This guy works in a store

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

This guy works in a store. He has a bulging gut but his heart was in the right place.

See What You Think About ThisXV — And off we set with the black bag

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

And off we set with the black bag in the trunk of the car. The drive to the restaurant is some two hundred miles of desert, mountain passes.

See What You Think About ThisXIV — I was wrong

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I was wrong. It did change. How can you hear the cries of others and not listen?

See What You Think About ThisXII — I get flashbacks of war

By
  • John Fellenor
| April 10, 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I get flashbacks of war. But I wasn’t there

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