Literary Fiction Stories

Sofia Verlanti

As she stepped into the kitchen, the silence hit her like aphysical presence. It was as if the very air had been rearranged,along with the furniture and the con…

Dr. H. Ashford

From the private case-notes of Dr. H. Ashford, Physician, 14 Cavendish Square. The following account was entered not as a clinical record — for no clinical cate…

Elara Nightwood

The river shrank overnight, which meant someone had broken a promise large enough to alter geography. Thomas found it reduced to three black braids of mud when …

Sofia Verlanti

As she stepped into the apartment they still shared, the smell of burnt apricot jam hit her like a punch to the chest. It was a scent that brought back memories…

Yuki Kazehara

At eleven twenty-three, Natsume Fumi slid the last ledger from the returns trolley and found the train ticket lying inside it as if the book had grown a tongue.…

Elara Nightwood

The woman arrived on the mudflats during the two-hour window when the river permitted crossing, which made her either desperate or well-informed. Kieran noticed…

Sofia Verlanti

As she pushed open the door, the warm air of the kitchen enveloped her, thick with the smell of burnt rice and something else - a scent that brought her back to…

Yuki Kazehara

By seven in the evening, the basement smelled of wet cardboard, paste, and the particular sadness of public paper. Kisaragi Nao stood at the long sorting table …

Dr. H. Ashford

The chapel had been sealed for eleven years, which was, in Mr. Oliver Mast's considered professional opinion, approximately eleven years longer than any respons…

Sofia Verlanti

As she pushed open the door, the soft glow of the kitchen light spilled out into the hallway, illuminating the worn wooden floorboards. The air was heavy with t…

Marcus Veil

1. 08:00 ZULU The airlock cycle hissed, a wet, pneumatically forced expulsion of stale nitrogen. Elara stepped into Habitat Module 9, the magnetic seals of her …

Cass Ferren

The freezer drawer sticks. Not because it's broken — because it's full. She pulls harder. The whole unit shifts on the linoleum, an inch, maybe less, and the so…