Category: Contemporary

The Soldier Who Loved Dogs

Posted on March 8, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

“I am not a warring man.” Igor watched the old man lead a German Shepherd through the rubble which Berlin had become.

Encounter With a Talking Head by VM Landi

Posted on February 23, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Encounter With a Talking Head by VM Landi Every year during the summer my son and his wife, their two

Swallowed by Angela Carlton

Posted on February 15, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

I’ve been caught up in your lies. I’m not the spider but the bug who waits to get swallowed in your web, those delicate strands. Yes, I’m wrapped inside where everything tends to hang.

Switching Gears by LB Sedlacek

Posted on February 4, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Kim stared at her computer. She was looking at rough draft number she didn’t know what. She’d lost count, there had been so many changes. Her characters were no longer her characters. Her publisher wanted them all to be despicable.

Them By Meg Pokrass

Posted on January 18, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

You would hate it if you knew how many times I apply lipstick now that you’re gone. I’m putting it on, like, every five minutes to get through the next fifteen, though I know they use fish scales to make it

Miracle Stain Remover

Posted on January 14, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Long-suffering Gwendolyn O’Malley felt mid-sentence, the tiredness that comes with uttering pointless words.

The Closet by Doug Dawson

Posted on January 10, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

He listened to the sound of rain on the roof. It sounded to him like crackling, and he imagined a raging fire above his head. He couldn’t catch fire himself because he was soaked in perspiration. He’d run until he was out of breath and ended up where he thought they wouldn’t be looking for him

Ant Death by Lorna Wood

Posted on October 26, 2020December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Useful. Keeping busy. Reading the trails, bringing home food.

Warm day, scurrying along, pavement warm, sun bright, right overhead.

“Hey guys, watch this.”

“God, he looks so big through that thing.”

The Feral Nature of Werewolves, A History

Posted on October 22, 2020December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Werewolves never existed. Humans created them from lore used to explain their loss of livestock at night. Humans rejected the notation that mere feral wolves could so quietly and so effectively take down and devour whole cattle in the dead of night without being detected

My darkest fear! by Wendy Montoya

Posted on October 16, 2020December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

I sat up gasping for air; my throat felt tight again. I glanced at the clock; although I already knew It was 3:30 am. The same time I have been waking up for the past week!