✧ Winner of the 2020 World's Best Short-Short Story Contest ✧ Selected by Robert Olen Butler Instructions for Lovers Eve lay beneath the...

Flush “Here’s a ghost story,” I say when it’s my turn. “A true one.” This happened not far from here, on a cliffside road pinned by...

Otto The art show in the café above the bookstore needed a curator. There was not a lot of money, and the job was more an internship than...

✧ Finalist for the 2020 World's Best Short-Short Story Contest ✧ Selected by Robert Olen Butler Mean to Me This is the part where the...

Cherry Vareniki Katya and I spent the winter Saturday afternoon at the big market that locals called “Tolchok,” “the push.” She was...

Driving to Ithaca Chicken eggs, the word MICHIGAN, your own face in the mirror: things began to take on a falseness if you thought about...

I Seek Him ___The string cots are lined outside, lined side by side. But my father is not there. Do you know where my father is, where my...

43.89, -110.67 It took about forty-five minutes by canoe to get to the island. It was supposed to be faster, about twenty minutes or so...

Mirror Girls Kira Bell My sister and I have a single magic trick: when we face each other from opposite sides of a window, it becomes a...

Next Year in Jerusalem Shira Elmalich My mother-in-law beckons me down the hall. “Come here,” she says, indicating that I should follow...