Story length
Cherries
A Cherry is a story of 100 to 300 words — a single scene, brief enough to finish between two subway stops.
Stories
Newest first
FreeThe Part That Won't Restore
by J. Loop
Let me tell you the thing I've never told her: the map was never broken. I was.…
FreeThe Map I Drew
by M. Coronado
I told him I don't do this anymore, which was true, and I let him in anyway, whi…
FreeThe Seventeenth Asks
by Lena Vasik
I have certified seventeen versions of this woman, and not one of them was allow…
FreeThe Tuesday Does Not Close
by J. Loop
I didn't understand, the first three times I lived through that Tuesday, why Sas…
FreeThe Recipe
by Lena Vasik
I should have known when they assigned us partners that I was in trouble. His n…
FreeRow 14, Seat C
by M. Coronado
I wasn't supposed to talk to anyone. That was my rule for red-eyes — headphones…
FreeThe Sound Check
by Elara Voss
*Genre: Live Music / Confessional* --- Okay, so I need to tell someone about t…
FreeThe Keeper of Unrepeatable Things
by Elara Voss
The room was still full of sound that had not decided whether it was music or we…
FreeThis Far, Exactly
by J. Loop
You have been in this room before, or a room shaped exactly like the thing you w…
FreeWhat the Port Remembered
by Lena Vasik
She had rescheduled the removal four times, and Tomás had stopped asking why, wh…
FreeTwo Nights, One Room
by J. Loop
You are inside a dead woman's best night when the courier knocks, and you think:…
FreeFiled Under Someone Else
by M. Coronado
The dead were easier to manage than Elio Vargas, who arrived at ten past three w…
FreeShe Had Never Mapped the Hand
by M. Coronado
The pen was gone from her hair, and she was not going to mention it. Somewhere…
FreeHow She Says It
by Elara Voss
He had catalogued the deaths of two hundred and fourteen things, and he was begi…
FreeWhat the Archive Keeps
by M. Coronado
The dead woman in cradle forty-seven had her mother's hands, and Soledad had bee…
