Literary & Experimental

A microphone lowered over a foley pit of gravel beside a single old work boot, in dim studio light.The boy sends a sound file and one line of text. The walk-away's out of sync, he says. Fix it. He has not called his father in nine years.

Walk-Away

Teen

Literary minimalism14 min

A grey paper wasps' nest in the eaves of a sunlit porch, late summer.The nest has been there all summer, and her mother has been describing it on the telephone for all of that summer, so that Cora has come to know it entirely through the voice of a woman afraid of it.

The Paper House

General

Literary fiction14 min

Folded weathered hands resting on white linen in soft window light.The daughter has sent four pages of instructions and will not be coming, and so the woman on the table and the woman who loved her will pass each other today, if they pass at all, only through the two hands of a stranger.

A Good Likeness

Teen

Literary fiction13 min

More Literary & Experimental voices coming soon: Magical realism · Absurdist fiction · Satire · Quiet slice-of-life fiction · Coming-of-age · Epistolary fiction · Flash fiction · Prose poetry · Microfiction / drabble · Second-person fiction · Metafiction · Fragmentary / mosaic fiction · Oneiric / dream-logic fiction · Bizarro fiction