Category Archives: Short Fiction

The cold, late November air silenced the music of the birds and crickets. In the stillness, Merritt could hear the faraway river rushing through the woods. He sat on a fallen tree and Lily leaned on a tall oak. The afternoon sun peeked through the few leaves that still clung to tree branches, and theContinue reading “Wabanaki Land”

With my chin pressed to my knees, I watched a single black hair on the center of my shin. It danced around in the canned breeze of the ceiling fan and stood out against the other blonde and white strands like black lead from a first-day-of-school pencil. My dad’s legs were covered in thick blackContinue reading “Something Blue”

“Oh, good, you’re finally here,” Ava said as she pulled open the door. “Jimmy, you have no idea how hard it’s been to live in this room under these conditions.” He recoiled at the use of his name, forgetting that his stained uniform polo displayed it in white embroidered script. The room’s walls were coveredContinue reading “Poltergeist’s Soda”