The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.  It was our thing; sitting and watching the clouds build, eating fast-melting popsicles a...

A 5-star improvised musical from The Maydays. A darkly comedic gothic fairy-tale inspired by Grimm, Beetlejuice & Lemony Snicket. New every night.

An emergency short story, as I rush out the door to get to opening night of my play in the Abbey Theatre

A night of Halloween storytelling, where YOU are the entertainment! Bring your sea shanties, monstrous myths, seafaring superstitions, ghostly legends and All Hallows' Tales.

Winter had been brutal and we didn’t venture outside, but now the cherry trees were blossoming and the air was soft and hopeful, and the heads appearing above garden gates and mailboxes were smiling u...

In Winnipeg, Moxley’s Rentals on Osborne Street leases a plethora of commodities, everything from wheelchairs to air compressors to step-ladders, almost 80 years after Clifford (Merv) Moxley, who died...

“To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and ...

This is Halloween. I We Were Never Afraid of the Spider by Timothy Fox II In Darkness by Eoin Nordman III Toxoplasma Odocoileus by Colin Alexander   IV  Son of Seanfhocail by Joseph Gilbride V…

A flash fiction website for writers and readers. One 75 word tale published daily. Plus author interviews and writing group map

The cause of the Roman poet, Ovid’s, exile was carmen et error, a poem and a mistake. We want your poems and your mistakes. Fiction that falls between genres. Weird, wild poems. Anything speculative, ...

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