The Cohort of Mist, Fog, and Fire | M. F. McAuliffe

"The mist would lie all along the trees in the mornings. Anything could be inside there, in the shadows and the dark. You were out in the open..."

Three Prose Shorts | Kurt Cline

"Mr. Kalliope was bending by the stream, pouring mackerel in a bucket, when Vincent clambered out of the chicken-coop..."

Under the Big Top | Dara Hurd-Danilson

"This is our big break. After fifty years, Denny and Lenny are finally back under the Big Top. You’re getting on the bus..."

Bad Girl | Kate Jayroe

"Helen lives in my frontal lobe. Sometimes, though, she enjoys lobe-hopping. Full-on parietal. Occipital, every blue moon..."

Turbine | Mitchell Grabois

"This is not a job I ever expected to have, but I couldn’t keep farming, not enough land, machines too old. I retrieve dead birds from the base of wind turbines..."

Red | Carrie Padian

"I feel like a Lifetime movie or at least the first two thirds of one, before anyone really notices the main character has a 'problem'..."