Join Melissa Flores Anderson, JD Clapp, author of Poachers and Pills, and Amy Marques, creator of Duets and Duets+1, for a book launch and reading. Hops and Fog Brewing Co. 511 Lighthouse Ave Pacifi...

An online journal of very short fictions -- under 1000 words.

Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She is editor & artist for the Duets anthologies, contributor to the collective The...

It swallowed her. The pain engulfed Marie whole, like a triskelion of emotional, physical, spiritual agony. She had stopped asking questions. There were no answers to be had. There was no why, and no ...

She dozes as images slide in and out of her mind, snapshots from a 1920s silent movie. Churling smoke hovers in the gauzy air, the wheels of the train lull her further toward sleep. But she forces her...

Buzz Killer by Amy Marques Grocery stores were on your list of traumatic experiences. Not because of food or smells of fresh bread or temper tantrums because you couldn’t use all the colored toothb…

uncle slams the spotted octopus against black lava rocks, tentacles gripping his arm, hand, fingers, his hair tearing from the roots, a heavy slap splash

“Sun Down” by Amy Marques   ​Before Sean, Nina had thought she’d never be a parent; thought she’d always be alone. The world is full of lonelinesses, of seasons, of fangs that prey on...

After a two-month maybe-this-time-we’ll-do-better-and-change-and-make-it-work-honeymoon abroad, they come home to a dead fridge because someone had turned the fuse switch off before they left. Someone...

After a two-month maybe-this-time-we’ll-do-better-and-change-and-make-it-work-honeymoon abroad, they come home to a dead fridge because someone had turned the fuse switch off before they left. Someone...

After a two-month maybe-this-time-we’ll-do-better-and-change-and-make-it-work-honeymoon abroad, they come home to a dead fridge because someone had turned the fuse switch off before they left. Someone...

Melissa Llanes Brownlee   I tell my best friend from church as we sit by the baptismal font, a deep little pool, perfect for two, with all of these haole boys from the mainland trying to conve…

Willow doesn’t even get the satisfaction of saying Brandon broke up with her. They were never a couple, not officially, their relationship undefined after six months of perfunctory orgasm-less sex (fo...

Valeria’s online crush says he’s coming to her. His words skitter her pulse. “Fantasies turn real,” his DM reads. Is he going to send her a photo of his dick? She angles her phone from her sleeping hu...

ISSUE 10.2: TOUGH WOMEN, GRITTY TALES spring 2025 ​ HEREIN ​"Stupid" by Rebecca Tiger "Rattlesnakes" by Sabrina Hicks "Destination Unknown" by Sarah Holloway ​"Juniper" by Sarah Holloway "The...

“Sun Down” by Amy Marques   ​Before Sean, Nina had thought she’d never be a parent; thought she’d always be alone. The world is full of lonelinesses, of seasons, of fangs that prey on...

“Sun Down” by Amy Marques   ​Before Sean, Nina had thought she’d never be a parent; thought she’d always be alone. The world is full of lonelinesses, of seasons, of fangs that prey on...