Fiction Short Story(s)

 

AMERICAN IDOL FINALE

by Mark Spencer

 

“Elvis was seventy-one years old and weighed at least three hundred and fifty pounds, so I’ve been expecting this. Now I have to get his corpse out of our Greenwich Village apartment and onto the sidewalk somewhere …” Read more

 

BATHWATER

by Sarah Mitchell

 

“Upstairs, I hear the sounds of my son waking, and I follow his footsteps through the ceiling as he stumbles from his bed to the bath. Tom is eighteen, nearly a man. Nearly the man his father was…”  Read more

 

Wednesday’s CHILD

by Constance Smith

 

“Her grandmother said that because she was born on a Wednesday, she was full of woe. Gina tried to imagine how that must feel, having a sadness inside you so great that you are full of it, like when you eat too much of something and it hurts.” Read more