The Mongoose and the Goat
by Miranda Erdt
Issue No. 195 ~ August, 2013
When the thick animal scent knocked me over, I looked for more goats in the corners, or perhaps a raccoon; one mammal couldn't smell so much.
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Macro-Fiction Archives
I Can See Our Future
by Kara MacIntyre
Issue No. 195 ~ August, 2013
What if something happened? No, it couldn’t have. If it did, there would be evidence on your friends’ profiles, well wishes and get well soons and maybe even a group asking for support and prayers but there’s not, there’s nothing, I have nothing.
Last Flight
by Marsha A. Temlock
Issue No. 194 ~ July, 2013
The kid gets my drift. Me and this kid, we’re buddying up. We’re having a real good time, me and this kid. I drain the beer, close my eyes, just thinking about stuff I buried long ago. When I open them the kid is still there. “Say, how old did you say you were?”
The Post
by Owen Wynne Jones
Issue No. 194 ~ July, 2013
Of course, in this Job - He capitalised job, a biblical pun to emphasise his suffering - in this Job there are plenty of bad knockers, but that is something I have to cope with.
Huckster
by Alex Ambles
Issue No. 194 ~ July, 2013
He left, and I popped open the computer. The screen flashed up, familiar and dreaded. Five words. The footprints of an idea I had been chasing for weeks.
What Comes After the Fall?
by Michael Wense
Issue No. 193 ~ June, 2013
In the stillness I had time to register things, to dwell. What, I wondered, would push someone to that point? I know confusion. I know difficulty. But killing myself? That had never crossed my mind.
The Biography of ___________
by Kharys Laue
Issue No. 193 ~ June, 2013
Having nothing else to do, Dalia married her high-school sweetheart. They accomplished nothing spectacular.
Aunt Mary
by Rosemary Hayward
Issue No. 193 ~ June, 2013
That’s the thing about photographs, isn’t it? They’re silent.
Wild Honey
by Michael Tyler
Issue No. 192 ~ May, 2013
Sam and I search streets of abandoned homes and lawns waist-high. The odd local leans against a wall, an elderly couple inch along a side-walk.
Blacklights
by Leland Cheuk
Issue No. 192 ~ May, 2013
Her back was turned to him. She was washing the cutting board in the sink. The way her elbows churned, Grace looked like she could have been strangling someone.