Category: Fiction
The Old Rag Picker Man by Charles Mercer
Every place has one. Why should Inwood be any different? He is only spoken about in whispers....
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The Kindness of Strangers by Sarah D’Stair
The incision had been hurting all day. She imagined the bloody slice to the top of her foot, the...
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The Big Bang Theory by Bill DeArmond
It was quite by accident that I discovered what might be the harbinger of the end of time. As yet...
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Slow Country by Che Pieper
You are in Slow Country now. Agonizingly, frustratingly, overbearingly Slow Country. Country so...
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The Mask Maker by Stephen P. Jackson
Ambrosia Woolf was a gifted maker of masks. She picked up the skill when she was eighteen while...
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Tunnels by K.B. Woods
“Can’t swim.” Mark breaks another glow stick and puts it into his backpack. “Seriously?” Kara...
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The Consultant by A. Poythress
May looks up from the pale-yellow flyer in her hand to the non-descript building in front of her....
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The Dare by Suzanne Cottrell
The cemetery caper began as a dare. Upper-class students dared freshmen to pick up a souvenir...
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An Inwood Horror by Alan Meyrowitz
Through his bedroom window, Hank had been watching the UFO for about twenty minutes as it moved in...
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The Question by Bruce Levine
Margo couldn’t help wondering why one of her favorite television channels had suddenly begun a...
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Be Kind, Rewrap by David Starnes
The ghosts in this town aren’t much for conversation. If they stop, it’s not for long, not long...
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Cornfield by Veronica McDonald
“Well, there was that one time, of course,” Fran Lewis lowered her voice, but her eyes sparkled as...
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The Kid and the Poet by Greg Stidham
I The wooden leg of the straight-backed chair groaned as the boy scooted it over the hardwood...
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Midnight Dogs by Chip Jett
The little Yorkie dog wandered onto Andy Rice’s property on the last day of post planning. Andy...
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The Face in the Portrait by Clark Zlotchew
The pit bull’s bark sounded as though it blasted its way out of a bull horn, each bark making the...
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Sunfish by Jeffrey Penn May
“When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Paleozoic time, And side by side in the ebbing...
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Campfire Stories by Katie Strine
Campfire Stories I asked him to tell me ghost stories, haunted tales with so much falsity they...
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Life by David Novak
Life “It don’t feel right, Warden. It just don’t feel right at all. Not one bit.” There was a...
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A Siren in the Rain by M. C. Kaske
A Siren in the Rain Jenny was late. So, there I stood, alone on a suburban street corner not far...
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Promises to Keep by Chanacee Ruth-Killgore
Promises to Keep I stood out on the patio in the crisp morning air and whistled for my dogs,...
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Bury ‘Em Deep by Tiffany Michelle Brown
Bury ‘Em Deep Fire-colored leaves crackle beneath my steel-toes as I follow Charlie to the back...
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Invisible Spirit by Patricia Rossi
If only she could recognize me, she would realize how truly near I am. Her wailing sobs silence my...
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My Commencement Speech to the Inwood, Indiana, Home-Schooled Class of 2016 by Joel Haskard
My Commencement Speech to the Inwood, Indiana, Home-Schooled Class of 2016 Dear Inwood, Indiana,...
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