Fiction – Page 7 – Broken Pencil

Phoebe Tsang

Juanita, I miss you. Do you remember the time I phoned and asked you to take me back after we […]

Colin Brush

By Barb Howard Sure, there was an element of surprise when Bigfoot gently plucked Josie off her bike and enveloped her […]

Colin Brush

By Jennie Hunter 1. Clothes On When his picture popped up on my phone, I’d clicked yes. I’d thought: ToyboyJay has […]

Jen Currin

When the mother ghosted, the three sisters were left with her rings and her teapot and her hairbrushes full of […]

Jonathan Valelly

by Erika Price illustration by Samantha Lucy She can’t remember the important bad things. I ask her about the divorces […]

Nadia Ragbar

In Nadia Ragbar’s Hostages, big changes and whiffs of confusion swirl around a woman who put off sleeping for far too many […]

Ceilidh Michelle

For this month’s online fiction we’re pleased to deliver Ceilidh Michelle, who writes about creative kids plus a lot of […]

Faith Arkorful

This new story by Faith Arkorful looks at dogs who seizure and parents who don’t come home. Written by Broken […]

Madeleine Leznoff

The heat suppresses the class’s buzz, keeping our restlessness static. The backs of my thighs stick to the orange plastic […]

Javier Rokusaburo

I felt the blow to the back of my head again. Some asshole dressed like Frankenstein had elbowed me from […]

Libby Kennedy

Elvis falls, bashes his face on the sidewalk. Haggard grizzly bear Elvis, same slick pompadour, crooked toothy snarl, he walks […]

Alison Lang (Moderator)

by Ian Rogers There is only one rule at camp and Mark breaks it: he wakes me up. Sleep is […]