IRL VPN Patrick never fit in, so he fit out. Wherever he was, he was and was not. Touching down for holiday in Berlin, he started to feel divided, so he

All I wanted to do was sleep off a nasty hangover, but my next-door neighbor had his television blaring. I banged on our shared wall and politely asked him to “turn that shit down” but got zero respon...

James Sullivan is the author of Harboring (ELJ Editions). His stories and essays have appeared in Cimarron Review, New Ohio Review, Third Coast Magazine, Fourth Genre, The Normal School, and Fourteen ...

By Will Musgrove It took a few days to figure out what was floating in the sky. It wasn’t until I looked up at the miles-long object, my mind slack like someone staring at a Magic Eye poster, and s…

James Sullivan is the author of Harboring (ELJ Editions). His stories and essays have appeared in Cimarron Review, New Ohio Review, Third Coast Magazine, Fourth Genre, The Normal School, and Fourteen ...

Selling (plural noun) over the phone, the telemarketer reads from an assigned (adjective) script, so whether it’s you, the (noun) filling in this mad lib, or his bosses at (company name) LLC, he’s use...

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At first, most people don't recognize they're cursed. At first, most people see the curse as a blessing from the gods. King Midas did. I did. That said, the wasps started stalking my buddy Jerry, and ...

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.

James Sullivan The tree still had most of his needles, and although Carly had been at first against our adopting him, something forlorn and shaggy in his expression convinced her, as it had me, and we...

I woke with the 5-something a.m. sunrise to find another owl waiting for me.