All Stories

Nancy Jane Moore

God Bless

Dec 6, 2018 · 618 words (3 minutes)

Science Fiction Strange

I just stumbled across a recent article on the nonexistent planet Nibiru, which was supposed to destroy the Earth in 2003 or in 2012. It reminded me that I wrote a story based on that idea awhile back.

Alex Pearl

Nature and Nurture

Dec 6, 2018 · 798 words (3 minutes)

Fantasy Strange

An impatient and hungry god, tired of mortal sacrifice, sets out to create even heartier fare: a godling upon which he may feast.

Coral Alejandra Moore

Sustaining Memory

Dec 6, 2018 · 1,967 words (8 minutes)

Science Fiction

A woman loses her memories one at a time to power a machine that could restore life to her dead planet.

Patricia Flaherty Pagan

Zenith

Dec 5, 2018 · 98 words (1 minute)

Literary Fiction Love

A modern wink at the passion of Abelard and Heloise.

Dawn Vogel

Army of Me

Dec 5, 2018 · 2,838 words (11 minutes)

Fantasy

When a weather app starts talking to her, Molly realizes that her programming abilities can be used for far more good than she anticipated.

Effie Seiberg

Thundergod in Therapy

Dec 5, 2018 · 5,615 words (21 minutes)

Fantasy Humor Satire

Zeus is stuck in court-mandated anger management therapy, and is banished to a retirement home on earth for his parole. When Tekhno, the new god of tech, comes and kicks him around, it's up to Zeus to figure out how to get him off his back without getting on the bad side of the Court of the Gods.

Matthew Hughes

A Little Learning

Dec 5, 2018 · 10,618 words (39 minutes) · 1 like

Fantasy Humor

Guth Bandar is an explorer of the human collective unconscious, which the Institute of Historical Inquiry has comprehensively mapped over aeons of Old Earth's ancient civilization. But The Commons, as the Institute's scholars call the noosphere, may still have a few surprises left.

Renee Carter Hall

The Gingerbread Reindeer

Dec 4, 2018 · 3,067 words (12 minutes) · 1 like

Fantasy

When Santa finds himself one reindeer short for the Christmas run, the frost-elf Boreas enchants a replacement. But there's more than elf-magic being worked, and when an ancient foe threatens them all, the gingerbread reindeer finds he's made of more than just flour and sugar.

Kevin Gendreau

On the River

Dec 4, 2018 · 429 words (2 minutes)

Literary Fiction Love

Andrew Shaffer

The Christmas Snitch

Dec 4, 2018 · 305 words (2 minutes)

Horror Humor Satire Strange

A short parody of "The Elf on the Shelf," originally published in my holiday collection "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like F*ck This" (2018, 8th Circle Press).