Category: Contemporary

Disclosure optional by Keith Nunes

Posted on August 16, 2017May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

A middle-aged guy in a dark jacket and a patterned shirt sitting at a bar, a woman of a similar age in a deep purple dress walks over and sits next to him.

Trapped In A Bottle by Ruben Michael Molina

Posted on August 10, 2017May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

The sun sizzled the soft tanned skin of Alison Bailey, as she lay comfortably on her favorite azure beach towel; the soft gurgle of the ocean tide lulling her into a peaceful slumber. The beach was a place that Alison visited when felt the world shatter around her, when the gratifying constants of her

The Storm by Kristin Leprich

Posted on August 9, 2017May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

My brother speaks to me in a hushed tone, as if the shaking echo of a louder voice might break the sight in front of us. We sit on top of the tallest hill in our plain Midwestern subdivision, surveying the damage

The Magic Spot

Posted on August 2, 2017May 6, 2024 by Every Writer

The Magic Spot: A story inspired by Giorgio de Chirico’s “The Melancholy of a Beautiful Day” He lay in the grassy median of a road which bounded one side of a large inner-city university. How he had come there, nobody knew. From his looks, though, his path had been a cruel one. His body showed the signs of a life wracked by insupportable pain. His face was hollow and sallow,