Condo Dwellers
By Alain Mercieca Condominiums, apartment buildings, call them what you will. Rectangular box friends that protrude out of most every […]
Fiction
Inexorable
By Greg Shupak There was a rumour that I was dead. Actually, I survived. *** “Oh my God! Oh I’m […]
The Napoleon Difference
By Julia Campbell-Such Bone splinters, pure-white like expensive china. Smell of talcum powder, morphine, sterilizers. Cracking, splitting, sawing. Tired and […]
Field Guide to Kleptoparasitism
Indie Writers’ Deathmatch IV Runner-Up By Braydon Beaulieu I stole my neighbour’s newspaper this morning. He has never noticed my […]
From Deathmatch 2011: Free Therapy by Colin Brush
Indie Writers’ Deathmatch IV Runner-up Go here to sign up for Deathmatch 2013. By Colin Brush “I’m in therapy, you […]
Brink
Indie Writers’ Deathmatch IV Winner by David Griffin Brown “It’s your baby too,” Lily said. “It’s only fair you help […]
Last Winter Here
By Emma Healey Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Quarter-Finalist 2008 Curtains. I take an English lit class once a week in this […]
Sickness
By Jessica Faulds Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Quarter-Finalist 2008 After he graduated from high school, receiving honours and an award for […]
Panties
By Greg Kearney Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Runner-Up 2008 All my favourite panties, ruined. I pull one pair after another out […]
Amsterdam at Midnight
By Graham Parke Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Champion 2008 I can’t sleep and head out, wondering how long this can go […]
Reckoning
By Salvatore Difalco He saw himself tented, with a little plastic window. Inside there, looking out. He saw the talking […]
do i look like i’m smiling?
By Catherine Paquette July.2.____ mother thinks i am a maniac. today i told her i was a terrorist and she […]