“So, I was thinking, what if people who are cremated go to one part of heaven and people who aren’t, go to another?” I say. Everyone...

The lake smelled brackish, like it was trying to be something it was not. Tessa sat on the edge of the dock and dipped her feet in. Forty...

When she got her mail after work, Linda recognized her mother’s familiar script on the top envelope. She gave a sigh, then shuffled it to...

*This short story placed as the 4th runner up of the 2021 Sad Girls Club Short Story Contest **Cowboy Jamboree is the original publisher...

White. White tile walls surround my front and sides, a never-ending prison. Their coolness brushes against my naked breasts. My stomach...

Dear J----- Is it arrogant to say that I died for your wife and kids? Like the Baby Jesus, I repented for your sins. Remember that naked...

Billy had worked at Johnson’s Drive-In for six years, when along came a blowjob that not only redirected the external circumstances of...

A girl and a man sit in a boat in the middle of a lake. The girl is thirteen and doesn’t think there is anything strange about the two of...

On this particular Summer morning, me, my older sister, and older brother waited on my father to wake up so that we could eat breakfast,...

In my senior year of college, I sublet a one-bedroom shoebox on St. Marks Place and started working weekends at a holdout father-and-son...

When she was sixteen, an incredible itch started in Sadie Rowan’s head. It sat in on the left side of her brain just underneath her...

Rina immediately felt clearer and more peaceful when she picked up one of the large silver hoop earrings with a tourmaline quartz bead...