“Widower,” a Haunted Passages Short Story by X. Luma

ONE SPRING AFTERNOON, WHILE WIDOWER was gathering lettuce from the garden, his daughter Lew called out from her siblings nearby. … 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

I KNOW EVERYONE THINKS I’M just a cabdriver, but I also work at the zoo. They pay me to … More

Phil Shreck is a writer living in Connecticut with his wife and three children. His short fiction has appeared in The … More

FOR AS LONG AS HE could remember, the barrel had sat in the back yard, behind a locked gate … More

MY MOUTH BELONGED TO ME.“Your head is flat as a tape worm.”We waited in line to get measured.Anything over … More

THE SKY OVER MY CHOSEN park bench is summer and painful. Fold my hands. Block out the kids running … More

Part I: The Beginning WHEN I WAS SMALL, I had dreams of the zoo.Putting mammoth-sized kibble in a bowl … More

THE POLICE LEFT MY iPOD behind on the hillside in front of Red Lobster with my red leather journal, … More

MERLIN KLOTZ SWEATED THROUGH HIS T-shirt with giant lettering that read, “OK BOOMER.” He questioned why he wore it … More

AT NIGHT IT FILLS MY mouth, this unnamable, unmournable ghost. I don’t know who it is, but on calm … More

IT WAS, AS IT ALWAYS is, the cat who first noticed that the number of ghosts squeezing themselves into … More

THE MAN THREADED HIS WAY down the long rows of bodies with an old wheelbarrow, careful as he rolled, … More

Tara Campbell (taracampbell.com) is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse. She received her MFA from American … More