“Lovers’ Lane,” original short fiction by Michael Cole

Lovers’ Lane was a lake, an old crater, faintly heart-shaped, about a mile outside of town. On any Friday … More

Job Aid Flash Fiction: “Become a Target at a Boy Scout Camping Trip” by J. Bradley

J. Bradley is a two-time winner of Wigleaf‘s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions. He’s the author of … More

Jason Teal For 2018 I charted a sort of reading renaissance, rethinking my art and how it’s made—which has … More

There She Is A woman in a pantsuit arrives first. She opens the lockbox and takes the key. She steps … More

Entering the city of Boris from the sea, the Sea Captain’s Ghost notices a mollusk on the back of his … More

A barmaid closing up for the night stopped polishing a glass when a telegram dropped through the slot of … More

I’d been thinking about that swimming hole for nearly half a year, since the middle of winter. I first saw … More

It’s because he has a train to catch that Rodney leaves his room after suppertime. He puts on dress shoes … More

Schedule a date with a tall someone with salt-and-pepper hair who finds you online. He will play drums. He will … More

They say there’s proof in the blood, that something can be in it that you didn’t put there and … More

Living two miles from the epicenter of a useless and oppressive government but still well within what could potentially be … More

Like most of the men in the Wetherall family, Virgil had lost a finger or three over the years. The … More