“Familiar,” a Haunted Passages short fiction by Betsy Sharp

Familiar Lara, taking the dark path behind. Lara, cold night air. Jacob in the kitchen, frying his ambition in kid-chatter. … More

Bad Survivalist Short Story: “In the Afterlife Your Landlord Is a Witch” by Maggie Nye

In the Afterlife Your Landlord Is a Witch She does not wear a pointed hat around the property, except in … More

Feast The double-wide steel door clanks shut. I stand next to the man who collected me from the waiting room. … More

Before All That In the end, she sells me for only a hundred dollars. “Women in this market usually go … More

To See the Moon What she hates most are the lights. There’s no dawn. No dusk. No silver sliver falling … More

Dad’s House I go to the café with my machine, but I’m followed by a smell. No one else around … More

Lurking For P.A, C*, J, P, D, and friends The campus’ hallway remained silent since the university’s closure earlier this … More

Out of Office Jeff wrote an out-of-office email: “Off to the future, back Wednesday the 21st.” Of course, in the … More

Nude Fridays in Whitelandia The Zoom Wake Pretty soon after Louis’ passing, I had an idea. Zoom wakes were everywhere, … More

mundane objects: the therapist’s office This room is too big for its own good. Strangely oblong and withering, the way … More

Causality When my placid younger brother scalded himself on his sixth birthday, the first time he ever cried, my mother … More

Jeremy Stewart’s newly released experimental novella is set in late 1990s Prince George, British Columbia, during the chilly month of … More

Elisabeth Sheffield is the sort of writer most writers only hope to become: a ventriloquist offering up voice after voice. … More

I Couldn’t Stop Looking I am standing in the backyard in front of the shed. My brother is at the … More

Raynaud’s Berries —for Carrie On our way to the emergency room, we realize it is the twelfth day in a … More