The Doubled Light by Tsung-Long Wu follows Elias Reeves, a salvager who makes his living picking through the aftermath of disasters out in the salt flats. One morning he comes across a scene with no explanation. A dozen people are dead with no wounds, no...

Do Not Go Gentle by Allen Shay follows the adventures of two men in the twilight of their lives. John Eastman has had a successful career as an attorney. But now that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, John wants to live the rest...

In Sean Esson’s The Flour Girl, Frankie Jones wakes up in an alley with searing pain, a corpse for company, and no memories. An unblinking, smirking stranger called Salvius delivers the verdict: Frankie is dead, and purgatory is not a place for mindless waiting. Salvius...

Anna Lamnari’s The Last Labor is set in the legendary Mycenaean age, when Herakles returns to Mycenae believing ten years of punishment have bought back his life. King Eurystheus has other plans. After rejecting two completed labors, he orders his cousin to steal Hera’s golden...

Michael’s father has recently passed away, and his brother Roy delivers one final request from their dad: an old shoebox full of family memories. Nothing in the shoebox appeals to Michael except an old dictaphone and some tapes. There’s nothing remarkable on the tapes, but...

In Wade Prull’s Black Tank, Gary is a former infrastructure specialist who has spent four years traveling alone in the motorhome he chose with his wife Claire. At Ridgeline State Park, the afternoon light matches a place Claire once circled in their road atlas, but...

In Adrian Cox’s The Vessel, Isaac Valdez is a laboratory technician aboard a generation ship whose High Stewards teach that every conclusion must remain open. His sister Aurora, confined by a terminal illness, directs his experiments from a room and believes their research may reveal...

Homes by Hayden Thompson follows Dr. George Harrington over more than two decades as an epidemiologist who leaves his comfortable life in France for public health assignments across Asia. Being a single father means George has to balance demanding fieldwork with raising his twelve-year-old son,...

People I Know by David Joseph is a collection of flash and microfictions that grab the raw essence of the human condition in brief, powerful bursts. Written in gritty, minimalist prose with atmospheric depth, it examines the sharp realities of life. The narratives move across...

In Marcus Conter’s A Light in the Silence, Brazilian musician Mateus has settled in Laval, Quebec, when his father summons him back to southern Brazil. Maria, the mother who held her four sons together, died only three months before her widower, Marlboro, summons them home...