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by Karen Schauber WE WOULD RENDEZVOUS at palatial homes cantilevered high over the Pacific Ocean. Private residences with long rectangular vanishing-edge swimming pools, lagoon-style grottos, each …

by Karen SchauberHe's peering up at me all honey-eyed, his stumpy little tail vibrating, waiting for me to pick him up. My eyes welling. Warm sticky puppy breath settles on my cheeks as soft tufts of ...

By Karen Schauber — "I ram down hard on the pedal driving the blue metallic mustang around the bend, careening headlong into a future without You. A year of joust and weave, submerge and abandon."

by Karen Schauber “He’d come to collect fees, long overdue fees, fees from a previous generation we didn’t know was owed.”

A Flash Fiction by Charlie Swailes

In the office of your therapist, you will tell her you’ve been just fine on your own, that you are waiting patiently for the one who will protect your heart, your eyes on the Rothko hanging behind her...

Overview and guidelines for the Best Small Fictions annual series, published by Alternating Current Press.

Chynoweth gobbles marzipan over the bathroom sink then promptly regurgitates like an egret, her long neck rolling and buckling like corrugated cardboard, until every morsel has been extruded. She then...

by Karen Schauber We hug the coastline, the water lipping and lapping, squeezing us against the scrub brush and pink granite boulders. Sophie stomps her feet in plops of seafoam eddying in tide...

by Karen SchauberMarthe occupies a squat three-legged stool, her knees splayed wide accommodating a crude weathered pot, peeling, scrubbing, and slicing the morning potatoes; the white-coated Alsatian...

The Final Sleep by Karen Schauber from Issue Fourteen

A while back, I posed a question to my fellow writers: how do you finish stories? What tips do you have to help get a story from a mess of ideas in a Folder of Doom to a finished piece that can be …

The Power of Context, Movement, and Desire in Literary Description   By Dinty W. Moore In writing workshops, our fellow writers will inevitably tell us to “Add more detail!” Okay, but isn’t that a …

Podcast Episode · Otherppl with Brad Listi · 2024-03-03 · 1h 17m

by Fiona McKay

Flash fiction by Karen Schauber