Category: Short Short

Winter Break by Nana K. Adjei-Brenyah

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Every Writer

I was home on break. Freezing rain came and went. The cold, however, crossed its arms and chained itself to everything.

Coming Home at Midnight to the Farm by Donal Mahoney

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Every Writer

Driving down the hill I see the same bend in the road the school bus took me around for years. I can see in the headlights the wildflowers ringing the curve like a necklace

The Delivery by Loretta Martin

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Every Writer

“A boy–good job, Mom!”

My doctor’s baritone penetrates the delivery room’s soundscape: sighing vacuum pumps, a chorus of medspeak, beeping monitors, all punctuated by

The Pickle Rabbi by Emile Barrios

Posted on March 27, 2015March 27, 2015 by Every Writer

I need to know if Di Fara has the best pizza in New York.

We Could Lose All Our…by Justin Karcher

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Every Writer

Sam’s text read, “Plz come over, its an Emgcy.”

Congratulations by Marilyn Braun

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Every Writer

Amy wondered if she should post it on Facebook. She was about to explode with excitement and needed to tell someone. Anyone. This was BIG. Bigger than anything

Not fully Vetted by Paul Finnigan

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Every Writer

“Well, I’ll be a son of a bitch,” muttered Vern Kravchuk as he leafed through the Farnham Chronicle. A 1978 VETTEAND IN MINT CONDITION.

Wildebeests by Paul Weidknecht

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Every Writer

Paul Weidknecht’s stories can be found in the anthology Once Around the Sun: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales for All Seasons (Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC). Publications include work in Best New Writing 2015

A Memoir by Namitha Varma

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Every Writer

You were nestling atop the bookshelf, between a battered Harold Robbins and a few tomes of Umberto Eco, patiently waiting for someone to take you home. You were picked up endlessly by second-hand book hunters but dismissed,

First Day By Ryan Diminick

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Every Writer

I backed into the parking spot, making sure I had enough clearance on each side. The first attempt brought me too close to the black SUV on my right, so I decided to pull forward. Once I straightened out