ONE SPRING AFTERNOON, WHILE WIDOWER was gathering lettuce from the garden, his daughter Lew called out from her siblings nearby. … More
Tag: Fiction
Steve Gergely: “VanLife,” a flash fiction for Bad Survivalist
FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS I’ve been living out of my van. It’s not a lifestyle for everyone, but at … More
Flash Fiction for Haunted Passages: “Preserved From Decay and Endued With Immortality” by Andy Spain
WE BURIED UNCLE CHARLES WAY out back, beyond the orchard, a good two acres from the property line. We picked … More
Robert Scotellaro: “A Sky Full of Crickets,” flash fiction triptych for Bad Survivalist
Hatching THEY ARE STRAPPED IN THEIR upside-down car for hours before the firemen, slicing through metal, free them. The deer … More
The Future: “Wellness in the Workplace: A Professional Development Series,” fiction by Dolan Morgan
Series Overview How can the organization best build capacity and develop tools to avoid burnout and respond with confidence to … More
“Electrolysis,” a Bad Survivalist Short Short by Roger D’Agostin
THE FOLLICLES DIDN’T KNOW WHY they were slathered in foam, but 17 said, “Don’t complain, this is the longest we’ve … More
#NoMorePresidents Flash Fiction: “Going In” by Kim Farleigh
“I WAS ABLE,” JAMES SAID, “to ignore it until yesterday; but last night, it was just impossible.” Sitting on his … More
A Story from The Future: Leland Cheuk’s “Frontliners”
I SHUDDERED AFTER REBECCA SAID she’d ordered takeout and toilet paper again. I was getting nowhere with my intramarital campaign … More
Saturday Morning Chapbook: Chase Burke’s LECTURE (Paper Nautilus) reviewed by Nick Almeida
Chase Burke’s stunning chapbook Lecture (Paper Nautilus Press) is filled with tumbledown geniuses. Armor is a recurrent image, and penmanship … More
“Skullface” by Rick Claypool: A Novel Excerpt for The Future
1. A mutant wakes up screaming alone under harsh beams of laboratory light. The humanlike thing cries and clings to … More
The Future: “The Wormhole Nextdoor,” a short story by Tara Campbell
A story about potholes, black holes, wormholes, and cats, told in the form of a Nextdoor thread, in hope of … More
Side A Short Story: “Dolphin Adventure” by Robert Long Foreman
“Interview”: Ben Segal Talks to WORKS Author Grant Maierhofer
Grant Maierhofer’s Works collects four separate books into a sprawling volume that functions simultaneously as a compendium and a bildungsroman, … More
“Two Little Stories about Black Beans”: A Flavor Town USA Fiction by Eli S. Evans
1. I WAS IN MY TWENTIES and living in the sort of apartment one lives in in one’s twenties, ramshackle … More
