Short Stories

Outside the Drug Store

Rexall Drugs hasn’t even opened yet, but already everything has gone wrong. For one thing, there are two people working there today...

Read More | Atticus Review

We Were Lucky with the Rain

Lacey can't resist spying on her parents. She lies flat on the floor, peering through the banister at them arguing downstairs...

Read More | Lost Magazine, Issue 12

The Last Supper

Even though it’s only Thursday, Jack and his family are going to watch a movie…

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The Mystery Year

It is late September and I’m sitting in the front seat of my boyfriend’s car…

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Migration

Natural disasters caused Katie’s mother to fall in love with Dennis rapidly, and with complete…

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Translucent Ghosts

Stanley sits on a bench just outside the Lionel Street playground watching Leslie and her…

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Someone's Drunk Wife

Someone’s drunk wife is in an upstairs bedroom...

Read More | Failbetter, Issue 18

This Bar

You come in out of the oppressive bright sunlight through one of the double swinging doors that flap behind you...

Read More | Failbetter, Issue 25

Ascension

The bars are open all up and down North Street, doors ajar...

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Opening Day

Maggie in the shower shaves her armpits, the razor scraping...

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Another Night at the Marco Polo

This is what happened. Someone committed adultery in Room 119...

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The Shift

Caffeine has become one of Russell's prevailing desires...

Read More | Storyglossia, Issue 19