PUBLISHED FICTION

By Stephanie Reddoch -- 21:00 Broken glass crunched under the coroner’s boots as he entered the apartment. The scent of a doused fire....

By Meg Newman -- The man I’d been   hoping to see was standing ten feet away from me, sorting through a pile of reddish-brown hardwood...

By Lilia Mahfouz -- As a child, Arthur was mesmerized by the golden plaques affixed to building facades. Endlessly, he would ask his...

By Gaurav Bhalla -- May is in the kitchen having breakfast—toasted English muffin topped with thick-cut marmalade and a piping hot cuppa...

By Gaurav Bhalla -- Gina and Zoe Gina retrieves two bulging grocery bags from the back seat and shuts the car door with a merengue-style...

By Charles Parsons -- Judd Rafferty was one of my early criminal clients. He retained me when he was charged with the rape of a...

By Barbara Krasner -- The “A” was missing again from the five and dime’s marquee. Bill Aronson, looking up, knew he should be annoyed....

By Barbara Krasner -- The evening was calm so far, even serene. But she knew what would come. The same thing that came last night as...

By Barbara Krasner -- White clapboards and wooden slats nailed across double windows peek through a veil of house-high ferns, maples,...

By Allison Cross -- The last guests were leaving. Only a few friends left. The counter was cluttered with empty bottles, crushed...

By Debi McKee [Winner: 1st Place] -- The sun rose on Nixie’s little beach town. It wasn’t the kind from 80s movies, montaged with the...

By Allison Cross [Winner: 2nd Place] -- Burnished mahogany with a large brass knob, the door resembles one you would see in a luxury...

By P.A. Farrell [Winner: 3rd Place] -- The rain pounded on the roof while the sickening smell of the flowers in his nostrils added to the...